Ralph Fiennes talks to film students in Cuba

"My passion for theater led me to be actor," said distinguished actor Ralph Fiennes to students at Cubas International Film and Television School, located some 50 kilometers from Havana in the town of San Antonio de los Banos. Read More

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Chile University honors Alicia Alonso

Chile s University of Arts has bestowed upon Cuban Prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso the title of Honorary Professor and the Chancellor s Medal. Those decorations were respectively given on Thursday by Alvaro Cruz, dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Victor Perez, rector of that higher education center. Read More

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Cuba movie crazy over Havana Festival

The New Latin American Cinema Festival, which also includes parallel showings of European films and US independent productions, is my favorite event of the year and one of the many reasons I love living in the Cuban capital. Read More

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José Wilker to be in Havana

It was recently known that the popular Brazilian actor José Wilker, main character of films like Doña Flor y sus dos maridos (Mrs. Flor and her two husbands) and the soap opera Roque Santero, will be one of the personalities who will attend the XXVIII New Latin American Film Festival of Havana. Read More

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Equipo Crónica in the Fine Arts

"Equipo Crónica in IVAM's collection" is a travel exhibit running until next January in the building of Universal Art of the National Museum of Cuba Read More

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Cuban musicians touring Europe

The seven-country European tour of the orchestra led by Cuban musician Adalberto Alvarez (leader of "Adalberto y su Son") started Monday. A pianist, composer, arranger and director, Adalberto Alvarez is for many Cubans a Cuban son performer par excellence, and he is known as "El Caballero del Son" (Gentleman of Son). Read More

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Telesur to participate in Havana Film Festival

The Telesur satellite television channel will participate in Havanas New Latin American Cinema Festival for the first time, supporting Latin American and Caribbean audiovisual creators with an award for the Best Documentary from the South, to be disputed between 150 documentary films in competition. Read More

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Ralph Fiennes at the Latin American Film and TV School

Celebrated British actor, Ralph Fiennes, says he is "very pleased, honored and happy to be in Cuba." The movie star delivered on Monday several master classes at the International Film and TV School in San Antonio de los Banos, where he is invited as special guest, on the occasion of the schools 20th anniversary. Read More

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Mexican drama opens Cuba Film Festival

The 28th New Latin American Cinema Festival opened Tuesday in Havana with the screening of Pans Labyrinth, a film by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro that artfully combines a magical fairytale with the crude reality of post-Civil War Spain and which kept the audience on the edge of their seats throughout. Read More

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Havana Film Festival opens Tuesday

The 28th edition of the New Latin American Cinema Festival opens in Havana on Tuesday with over a dozen Havana theaters showing hundreds of fiction, documentary, animated and short films through December 15. Read More

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