Año 4, No. 1. Enero-Junio (2022)

The emergence of Covid-19 imposed a global chal-lenge on the dynamics of human life. The local work of the Seventh Art would suffer the same fate as the great monopolies of audiovisual entertainment, expe-riencing new challenges in the modes of production. In this sense, filmmaking in Cuba was not exempt from reinventing itself in its routines with the particularities of the context. In addition to the material shortages in-volved in maintaining production in an underdeveloped country, there was the crisis caused by the coronavirus. On the other hand, the closure of the few cinemas in op-eration would motivate the use of methods of dissem-ination that were already being used with the chang-es in consumer habits. From then on, social networks would serve as an intermediary between the public and the audiovisual. In view of the above, this essay aims to analyse the panorama of the film industry on the island during the pandemic, with the objective of addressing the context and development experienced by Cuban cinema