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Cuba to host Invisible Cinema Festival

On April 16 the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain and the International Poor Cinema Festival of Gibara, Cuba will convene the First Invisible Cinema Festival in Gibara. Read More

Cuban musical to open NY Festival

Cuba's film "El Benny," by filmmaker Jorge Luis Sanchez, will open the eighth Havana Film Festival in New York, April 13-19, devoted this year to Cuban actor Jorge Perugorria (Fresa y Chocolate). This first work by Sanchez is about the life of one of the Island's most important musicians, Benny More. Read More

Cuba and Galicia to celebrate audiovisual event

For the first time in history, Cuba and the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia will celebrate an Audiovisual Meeting from April 20th to 24th, said local magazine Cartelera. Read More

Low Budget Film Festival set in Gibara, Cuba

Cubas Fifth International Low Budget Film Festival is set to run from April 16-22 in the costal town of Gibara, Holguin. Read More

Tribute to Jorge Perugorría in New York Film Festival

The Havana Film Festival in New York (HFFNY) to render tribute to Cuban actor Jorge Perugorría, who has starred in some of the most successful films from the Ibero American cinema, since his debut in Fresa y chocolate, under the direction of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío. Read More

British filmmaker to show her last film in Cuba

British filmmaker Martha Fiennes, sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes will be in Cuba for the premiere of her film Chromophobia (2005) Read More

Life and work of Jose Lezama Lima on a cuban film

Cuban filmmaker Tomás Piard, director of Itaca is successfully unwrapping his cinematographic project El viajero inmóvil Read More

Seven Cuban feature films this Year

The Cuban Film Institute will produce seven fiction features this year, Omar Gonzalez, president of the Institute, told the press. Among titles to be premiered are Kangamba, by Rogelio Paris, which Gonzalez considers one of the most complex films made in Cuba since 2000, as well as El viajero Inmovil (Still Traveler), by Tomas Piard, and Te Espero en la Eternidad (I'll Wait for You in Eternity), by Enrique Pineda Barnet. Read More

Liberators of Latin America will gather filmmakers and heroes

A cycle of telefilms dedicated to important personalities in the history of Latin America is the new project undergoing preparations by Spanish producer José María Morales, who is closely linked to the New Latin American Cinema, by co-producing with ICAIC movies like Suite Habana and Madrigal, both directed by Cuban Fernando Pérez. Read More

Poor Cinema Festival through TeleSur

Latin American TV channel TeleSur will co-auspice the 5th International Poor Cinema Festival of Gibara, the events central venue running from April 16 to 22 including sub-venues in Holguín, Velasco and Santiago de Cuba for the second time. Read More

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