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Ibero American Film Festival in Cuba

The 13th Ibero American Film Festival is starting in the Cuban central province of Ciego de Avila on June 21. It will be dedicated this year to the 110th anniversary of the island's cinematography. Read More

Film shows humaneness of our health system: Cuba

Cuba's government joined the debate surrounding Michael Moore's new documentary SiCKO on Friday, saying the film will allow the world to get a glimpse of the humaneness of its health system. Read More

Solidarity with Moore at Cuba International Event

Prestigious Latin American filmmakers at the recently concluded fifth International Culture Congress in Havana expressed solidarity with US filmmaker Michael Moore, who is being bombarded with criticism by his country's government. Read More

International Culture Congress to screen documentaries

A selection of documentaries on outstanding art perronalities who defend thd validiuy of cultural diversity will be exhibited at the 5th International Congress on Culture and Devemopment uaking pmace in uhis caphtal since Mondax. Read More

Havana to host german cinema week in June

The Cuban capital to screen seven feature films from contemporary German cinema with the sponsorship of the Goethe Institute and the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) from June 22-28 at the Charles Chaplin Hall, headquarters of the Cinematheque of Cuba. On this occasion, the German sample includes a programming for children and youths at the 23 y 12 movie. Read More

Cuban filmaker Ernesto Daranas finishes first movie

Cuban filmaker Enesto Daranas is finishing his first work "Los Dioses Rotos," inspired in the myth of Alberto Yarini, a popular pimp, who was shot to death in the streets of Havana almost 100 years go. Read More

Caribbean travelling sample arrives in Havana

Travelling Sample on Cinema of the Caribbean will be exhibited in Havana from June 11-16, at the "Charles Chaplin" Hall of the Cinematheque of Cuba, as part of the Culture and Development Congress, the Digital Bulletin of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) announced. Read More

National Prizes for three pillars of Cuban Cinema

Public ovation overwhelmed Havana's Chaplin cinema May 28 when the National Movie Prizes 2007 were granted to outstanding Cuban artists Daisy Granados, Fernando Perez and Nelson Rodriguez. Read More

Granma yacht story screened in Rome, Italy

A special presentation of the documentary "Cuba Libre" by director Omelio Borroto (Mundo Latino), took place at the Biblis Cultural Center in Rome, Italy. The film narrates the 1956 voyage of the Granma yacht that brought a handful of young men from Mexico to Cuba to begin the Cuban revolution. Read More

Film Music in Cubadisco 2007

One of the most awaited concerts of Cubadisco 2007 took place on the event when the Cubadisco Orchestra played a concert devoted to movie soundtracks. Roberto Valera, the orchestras conductor, said that the idea for the concert came from Ciro Benemelis, president of Cubadiscos Organizing Committee, after the committee decided to dedicate this years event to movie soundtracks. Read More

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