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Argentina in Havana Film Festival

The full-length fiction films are The Lion from Santiago Otheguy and The Attacker from Pablo Fendrick, whose main character Arturo Goetz was awarded the best actor in Buenos Aires festival (BACIFI), 2007. Read More

Monicelli regrets the impossibility of traveling to Cuba due to sickness

I'm very sorry that due to my age and my health I will not be able to see Cuba , a country I wanted to see for a long time, declared he in a letter to the organizers and the Cuban movie lovers, spread here. Read More

Started the shooting of a film about Che in Bolivia

The Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, who started last week the shooting of Guerrilla, another of his great movies, indicated that to know the work of the Cuban doctors and to greet Evo Morales were two fulfilled dreams he had in Bolivia. Read More

The prestigious Cuban folk company will tour Europe

Yoruba Andabo won the Grammy award in 2001 for their record "La Rumba soy yo" and was nominated to that award in another three occasions. They have also won the Juno award in Canada in 1991. Read More

UN Elects Cuban Chief Inspector

Even Fontaine Ortiz was elected president of the Common Dependency of Inspection (CDI) of the UN System, the highest post for a Cuban official Read More

Exhibition of the Cuban engraving award winner

The artist from Santiago, Miguel Ángel Lobaina, 2007 National Engraving Award winner for the work of his life, also won, due to his artistic excellence of the main recognition delivered by the Office of the Curator of the south eastern city Read More

Substituting Imports with Quality Cuban Products

Communist Party Political Bureau member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura highlighted the importance of producing quality products in the national effort to substitute imports with domestic goods. Read More

Film Director Fatih Akin Sends Greeting to the Cuban Public

The excellent German filmmaker Fatih Akin (1973), considered the new Fassbinder, sent greetings to the Cuban public that attended the 29th New Latin American Film Festival and was admired by his last film The Other Side, Oscar nominated. Read More

Cuban Judokas Bring Home Medals from Tour of Asia

Despaigne, 100 kilo champ in Rio 2007 Pan American Games, got his ticket to the Beijing 2008 Olympics by winning bronze in the World Judo 2007 Championship also held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Read More

Havana Film Festival Hosts Theoretical Seminars

President of the Festival's organizing committee, Alfredo Guevara, presided over a panel on December 9 in which the book Los años de la ira. Viña del Mar 67,(The years of wrath. Viña del Mar 67) was launched. Read More

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