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The need to save the world from the effects of climate change was stressed by Cuban ambassador to Peru Luis Delfin Perez at the screening here of the documentary "Climate Change, the challenge continues."

The 15th national Festival on film analysis Cinemazul will be held in this eastern province of Las Tunas from the 20th to 25th this month and will render homage to the filmography of the genius Charles Chaplin.

Statistical of the community Video Clubs program in this eastern province of Las Tunas assure that 60 percent of people that attend these facilities are students between eight and 17 years old.

The documentary, under the direction of Lourdes de los Santos, has as main character to Ivette, the younger daughter of René González who together with Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando González are known internationally as the Cuban Five.

Next Thursday, May 8, Havana’s Charles Chaplin Hall will host the opening of project “Ambulante”, real documentary festival, promoted in Mexico by two young filmmakers, actors Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.

Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás announced the screening in Bilbao, Spain of a group of films that participated in the 6th Low-Budget Film Festival that concluded this past Sunday in the eastern city of Gibara.

Film criticism and the forty years of the release of Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment), a film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Titón), are the two top stories in Cine Cubano’s latest issue.

"Within 10 years Hollywood will have a commercial failure" said the French -Canadian film critic Herve Fischer during the first theoretical meeting that took place last Wednesday, as part of the activities for 6th edition of the International Film Festival of Gibara.

The sixth edition of the International Poor Cinema Festival, organized by the famous movie maker Humberto Solás, extended its proposals to the province of Camagüey, April 18th-to 21st.

The jury of the Sixth International ‘No-Budget’ Film Festival, in Gibara, Cuba, will award the Latin American documentary that best expresses the values of small communities and marginalized groups.

The documentary entitled Woman's Wings is one of the most polemic proposals among the assiduous adolescents that go to the audiovisual rooms of the eight municipalities of this eastern province of Las Tunas, due to its perceptive treatment to the so-called sex workers.

A look from the present to the past, against intolerance, in defense of identity and cultural diversity is how director Rigoberto López defines his feature-length Roble de Olor.

The music from the famous Cuban Benny Moré reached here with the exhibition of a movie about his life. This was enjoyed by ambassadors, diplomats and employees from the United Nations Office.

The festival was first held in 2001, organized by Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás. This time, 100 works will be in competition in six different categories: fiction, documentary, unpublished script, experimental works, projects in progress and video.

The documentary Hombres sobre cubierta (Men on deck) that narrates a stage in the life of the Cuban singer and composer Silvio Rodríguez, is to be presented for the first time this weekend in cinemas of the Guatemalan capital city.