Trinidad of Cuba has been since its inception as a city, one of the most prosperous and concerned about the popular and national culture that was presented on its premises. Among its main cultural facilities is the Brunet theater, which dates from December 1840, a building built by Count Brunet, an important figure of the Trinitarian colonial period. Only the ruins on Gutiérrez street are preserved and refurbished as the Beer House in Trinidad, of the Palmares extra-hotel chain.
Another building that has managed to survive to this day and that has finished the restoration period by the Office of the Conservator of Trinidad is the Charity Theater. One of the most beautiful examples of its kind in the province and has about 600 lunettes, which makes it the largest in the province of Sancti Spíritus.
The municipality of Trinidad has 5 cinemas of 35 mm. located two in the city (Romelio Cornelio and Guamuhaya) and the three remaining in rural towns (Condado, FNTA, Casilda). There are also 5 video rooms located in Trinidad, San Pedro, Felicidad, Casilda and FNTA. You also have two 16 mm modules. that work in a mobile way in the prioritized areas of the Turquino Plan "Manatí" (Mountain).
In agreement with the new technologies, the cinema Romelio Cornelio promotes screenings, on a large screen, of files and documentary materials originally conceived for video and CD. Of these last ones, this trinitario cinema maintains an area of external loans, to reasonable prices, by means of which, the inhabitants of the Museum City of the Caribbean, can take to their houses interesting films so much for adults as for the smallest ones.
On the other hand the Romelio Cornelio cinema, the dark room that distinguishes the former third Cuban villa, is part of the premiere cinema system of the country and hosts every year the Cinema Club event that takes place in our province. On his screen, most of the Cuban film productions have been seen and those that have had the stage, the streets, the valley and the inhabitants of Trinidad, have had their premiere in this cinema.
So you can mention films like Lucía de Humberto Solás who, in one of the many interviews he gave, thanked infinitely the almost magical collaboration of the city by providing much more drama to the climax scene of his film. A time when the visual effects did not have much more than the ingenuity of the editor or the good fortune of the climate the day chosen for the filming. This film is from 1961. Then there were others like El hombre de Maisinicú, The Last Supper also filmed some scenes in the Valle de los Ingenios de Trinidad and novels like Sol de Batey and Azul Indigo. In more recent times we can talk about several co-productions such as Back to the past, Miranda returns or Bolívar, the man of difficulties. Each of its filmmakers has been grateful for the preservation of the atmosphere of this city, its people, the histrionics that they print as extras to each of the scenes in which they are involved.
But Trinidad, has also been the refuge of many documentary filmmakers who have found in the production of images with a story to tell in less time, how to reciprocate the attention and culture of Trinidad.
Highlights such as Illuminated City, city without time, City of Hope, A Gift from Heaven, Back to Trinidad, Invisible Soul, Between Lights and Shadows, Stories from a world apart ... and so many others that the list would be endless.