Post-revolutionary poster art was used to promote movies for three decades after the revolution. Some of these stunning hand-printed posters, in blocks of dense colour and influenced by eastern European and Japanese design, can be bought for a few dollars from the shop at the ICAIC (national film institute). They look very cool framed and hung on the wall back home.

ICAIC office, next to the Chaplin cinema, Calle 23, 1155, entre 10 y 12, Vedado.

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Cuba is world famous for its music, but the most keenly awaited festival is always for Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano festival, perhaps Havana’s most glamorous event of the year, with lectures, parties, hobnobbing in the Hotel Nacional and ten solid days of cinema. It’s held every December, in itself one of the best times of the year to visit Cuba.

www.habanafilmfestival.com, December 5-15.

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