463 entries to be screened in Havana Film Festival

A total of 463 films are to be presented at the Havana Latin American Film Festival due to start on December 5th and last through the 15th. The Cuban capital will once again be showing the latest the Latin American film industry has to offer in all its main cinemas. The Festival has become a major social phenomenon that attempts to satisfy the differing interests of its spectators since its inception in 1979. Read More

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Rhythms del Mundo, Cuba - the Buena Vista Sound

Pop stars perform with the Buena Vista Social Club. Buy this album and £2 goes to Artists' Project Earth, which uses the arts to raise awareness of global warming issues and provide disaster relief. Read More

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Young Italian Film Fest in Cuba

For the first time in Cuba a festival will be dedicated to the youngest Italian Cinema producers, in which seven movies will be shown, sources from Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry specified. Read More

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Havana Film Festival to open December 5th

he 28th Festival of New Latin American Cinema will open in Havana on December 5 with the film El Laberinto del fauno from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro and will close with Volver, the latest from Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Read More

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Eros, history, identity... and Marta Rojas!

From the shots Marta Rojas heard during the wee hours of July 26th, 1953, in Santiago de Cuba, when the noises from the carnival conga were silenced, to the publication of her fourth novel (or fifth?, if we mention her testimony The dead man's cave), this untamable, imaginative and persevering woman has been mixing the excellences of journalism. Read More

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Cuba stands out at the piano contest held in Costa

By third time Cuba imposed its presence at the 4th piano contest "María Clara Cullell", that took place in Costa Rica, after obtaining the first awards within the two competitive modes. Read More

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Viña del Mar repeats itself in Havana

Alfredo Guevara, president of the Havana Latin American Film Festival, ratified the condition of the event as continuator of that held in Viña del Mar, Chile, in 1967 when filmmakers of the region met for the first time. Read More

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Chilean Literature at Casa de las Américas

Since some time ago, Casa de las Américas dedicates, at the end of every year, a week to the study and promotion of the work by outstanding writers from our continent. This years edition of the Authors Week will have Chilean writer and plastic artist Pedro Lemebel as its guest. Read More

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Tomas Gutierrez Alea tribute at London Film Festival

This years London Latin Film Festival, to take place from November 25 to December 3, will pay tribute to the late Cuban director and screenwriter Tomas Guitierrez Alea, a founder of the Cuban Film Institute. Read More

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Sociocultural community project Guerrilla de Teatreros will perform at the Cauto river

Famous by his tours to Sierra Maestra -the highest mountainous region of Cuba-, the sociocultural itinerant community project Guerrilla de Teatreros will perform this month at the plains next to El Cauto, the country's longest river. Read More

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