Cuba cinema has been characterized by a great social load. From the 1920s became very usual sentimental melodramas and comedies in which the Galician and little nigger, two iconic characters of the vernacular cinema, were present.
From the triumph of the Revolution, the film productions are distinguished by their historical, philosophical or social content. Economic hardship, political humor, emigrations, the dialectic of an expectant Cuba are some of the most recurrent themes. Today in addition to these more frequently we see homosexuality, transsexualism and prostitution.