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Popular Cuban filmmaker Enrique Pineda Barnet premiered in this capital his most recent film "The Annunciation", assumed as a sort of moral testament that refers to family separation and intergenerational antagonisms

The coastal city of Gibara in the eastern province of Holguin, will host the 7th "Humberto Solas International Low-Budget Film Festival, schedule from April13 to 19.

This year’s festival is being held in Santiago de Cuba and extends to March 13

The latest film by Cuban director of Strawberry and Chocolate, Juan Carlos Tabio, named El cuerno de la abundancia (Horn of Plenty), was premiered on Thursday in the largest movies across the island.

The 8th Exhibition of New Producers that is to take place every year sponsored by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (Cuban Institute of Art and Movie Industry) (ICAIC in Spanish), will open on February 24th until March 1st, was informed to Cubasi.cu by its organizers.

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry (ICAIC, after its initials in Spanish) will premiere one movie every month in 2009, said to Cubasi, Omar Gonzalez, president of that cinematographic institution.

An existence of 50 years for the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industries (ICAIC) will be celebrated worldwide, that institution´s vicepresident Susana Molina stated.

Organizers of the 30th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema confirmed on Wednesday that Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro will arrive Saturday to attend the special presentation of the film about Ernesto Che Guevara by US filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.

The 30th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema starts Tuesday with the screening of the Argentinean film "Leonora," by Pablo Trapero.

The Cuban war drama Kangamba was exhibited in this capital city as part of the First
Embassy Movie Exhibition in Mexico, a program which will be held on until next December

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More than 40 projects by moviemakers from 15 countries were submitted to the Latin America first copy section, one of the initiatives promoted by the Industry Sector at Havana's Film Festival.

The traveling Caribbean Film Festival is visiting France again --the second time this year, but with different films. The aim is to strengthen cultural exchange with a country that has produced 12 Nobel Prize winners.

Six fiction movies, 48 short films and 25 documentaries will also compete in the Morelia film festival, a major launching platform for Mexican films.

The humanitarian tradition and social commitment of legendary US actor Paul
Newman, dead at age 83, was stressed by the Cuban press.

The Cuban documentary Destinos (Destiny), a piece that shows the current reality of men and women all over the world who studied University in Cuba, will be screened from September 18, in the cinema Yara, from this capital.