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Cuban cinema season opens in Chile

A Cuban cinema season, including the documentary by Oliver Stone "Comandante," a profound interview with President Fidel Castro, began at Santiago de Chile Tuesday and runs until August 28. Read More

Onstage cuban version of Cabaret

The classic-status musical Cabaret will be onstage early in November 2007 by Mefisto Teatro Group under the direction of Tony Díaz. The piece based on the English dramatist Christopher Isherwoods book Adiós a Berlín 1939 (Goodbye Berlin) and adapted to theatre by John van Druten is still acclaimed by moviegoers thanks to the 1972 Oscar multiawarded film that Liza Minelli and Joel Grey staged so successfully. Read More

Cuban filmmaker makes donation

The Cuban filmmaker, Enrique Pineda Barnet, National Film Laureate, donated his script payment and author's rights of Te espero en la eternidad (I Wait for You in Eternity), his latest film, to the development of young filmmakers in the country. Read More

Carilda film premieres in Cuba

The documentary "Memoria de la fiebre", dedicated to Carilda Oliver Labra, 1997 National Literature Prizewinner, premiered in Matanzas, Cuba on Thursday with the presence of poet and film director Manuel Jorge. Read More

Cuban films in Chile

A Cuban cinema season, including the documentary by Oliver Stone &quot;Comandante,&quot; a profound interview with President Fidel Castro, began at Santiago de Chile Tuesday and runs until August 28.<br /> Read More

Cuban filmmaker, Enrique Pineda Barnet, makes donation

The Cuban filmmaker, Enrique Pineda Barnet, National Film Laureate, donated his script payment and author&#39;s rights of Te espero en la eternidad (I Wait for You in Eternity), his latest film, to the development of young filmmakers in the country. Read More

Sicko 9th in US Box Office Hits

Sicko, Michael Moore&#39;s new film, based on the critical situation of the US health system, placed ninth in box-office hit this weekend with 4.5 million dollars. Read More

Michael Moore and SiCKO are Welcomed in Havana

Some Canadian, French and British critics of Michael Moore have accused the U.S. filmmaker of painting a too rosy picture of the public health care systems of their countries while trying to expose his own nations shortcoming in his latest documentary SiCKO. But in Havana, where Moore shot a sequence of his film, the movie was given the highest marks and the filmmaker given support by the authorities. Read More

Visual Arts and Bolero will be together during the XXI International Festival Boleros de Oro

Visual Arts and Bolero will be together during the XXI International Festival Boleros de Oro to be held June 20-24 in Havana, although since June 7, this event started a journey around some other Cuban cities to end on July 1st. Read More

La edad de la peseta receives Award in Brazil

The 17th edition of the Ceará Iberoamerican Film Festival, recently held in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza, granted its top awards in the fiction categories to the Brazilian movie Querô, by young filmmaker Carlos Cortez, and also to Cuba's La edad de la peseta (An Awkward Age), by also young Pavel Giroud. Read More

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