Héctor Almeida (Cuba, 1995) is a filmmaker and editor. His practice stems from a sensibility that eschews binary classifications of art and cinema, opting instead for a porous, unlabelable territory where images circulate between languages, bodies, and devices.
In 2023, he presented his debut film Para Esteban, a cinematic letter about family memory that was selected for more than 70 international festivals, including the Lebu International Film Festival, a qualifier for the Oscars and Goya Awards, and received the Funespaña Award at the Visualízame en tu memoria competition. In 2024, he won the Prince Claus Fund SEED Award and participated in the DIP: Documentary, Intimacy, and Staging laboratory/refuge, directed by Manuel Abramovic, with the participation of Lucrecia Martel, Maite Alberdi, Petra Costa, Brigitte Vasallo, Marina Otero, Marlene Wayar, and Maruja Bustamante. In 2025, he was awarded the Gwaertler Stiftung Grant to collaborate with multidisciplinary artist Nayer Ghidorah on the hybrid film “Tijeras, Palomas y Bajo Mundo” (Scissors, Pigeons & Underworld). He also participated in the Archivos Suspensos (Suspended Archives) working group of the Archivos y Activaciones (Archives and Activations) space, coordinated by Argentine curator Romina Resuche. He was selected for Euro CineLab, organized by the European Union in Cuba under the tutelage of filmmaker Xavier Solano, where he developed “Ejercicio visual para una despedida” (Visual Exercise for a Farewell).
He is currently part of the “Film Workshop: Language, Limitations, and Experimentation,” an online training space organized by Invasión Cine, and the seminar “Video Games: Between Contagion and Reality” by Conrad Hamilton of The New Centre for Research & Practice, delving into contemporary debates on video games, digital culture, narratives, and platform politics. He is also developing the documentary art game “El niño de fuego que no pudo volar” (The Aflame Boy Who Couldn’t Fly), which emerged from a process at the Incubator for Projects in Development of the Documentary Chair at the International Film and TV School (EICTV), and was later part of the workshop “Video Games, Games, and Contemporary Arts” at the MediaLab of the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, for which he received the Latinx In Gaming Grant 2025.