Film & Television

Film & Television

Cuban Movie Aims at Full-length Film Coral Award

Prensa Latina service

The Cuban movie Sergio y Serguei, directed by Ernesto Daranas, was screened at the Charles Chaplin movie theater as part of the 39th Havana Film Festival.

Film Festival in Cuba Pays Tribute to US Filmmaker

Prensa Latina service

The organizing committee of the 39th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema pays tribute to US filmmaker James Ivory, with the screening of several of his films in the context of the event.

Colombian movie Killing Jesus is presented with great success in Havana

Prensa Latina service

The movie "Killing Jesus", from the Colombian director Laura Mora, was presented in the competition of first work as part of the 39th Edition of the Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana.

Restored classics at Havana Film Festival

Charly Morales Valido

Eight restored classics films will be screened in the 39th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

Tips from Industry Sector at Havana Film Festival

Charly Morales Valido

How to distribute and promote feature films? That's the question...

39 Festival of the New Latin American Cinema began in Cuba

Prensa Latina service

The premiere in Cuba of the Brazilian feature film O Filme da minha vida (The movie of my life), by Selton Mello, marked the opening of the 39th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

Havana Film Festival will exhibit restored classics

Prensa Latina sevice

During the 39th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, eight restored, classic films of the region's cinematography will be exhibited, announcing the program of the event, scheduled from December 8 to 17.

Summons Prensa Latina to film award Glauber Rocha

Prensa Latina service

The Latinamerican Information Agency Prensa Latina convened the foreign press accredited in Cuba to choose the winning film of the Glauber Rocha Award at the 39th Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

More than 400 films will show in Cuba 39 film festival of Havana

Prensa Latina Service

The 39th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema will exhibit more than 400 films in Havana from December 8 to 17, informed its director, Iván Giroud.

Gone With The Wind... to Havana

Charly Morales Valido

The Charles Chaplin's Charlot movie theater, in Havana, will host a film screening dedicated to British actress Vivien Leigh

Holy Gibara! The International Film Festival that Dreams are Made Of

Photos and text by Heidi Hollinger

It was a magical week. The 14th Annual Gibara International Film Festival did not stop to amaze, not once. From April 16 to 22, 2017, Jorge Perugorría (Pichi), the Festival President, and Rafael Rosales, the Festival Director, put on a heck of a show.

Havana will host Francophone Film Festival

Charly Morales Valido

Canadian, Haitian, Algerian, Tunisian and French artists will be part of Cuba's celebration of French legacy

Raúl Rodríguez, Cuban National Cinema Prize 2017

Charly Morales Valido

The renown photographer was awarded for his proliphic work during more than 50 years in the Seventh Art.

Gibara the ‘Villa Blanca’ of Cinema

By Mayté Madruga Hernández

“In 2000, during the filming of Miel para Oshún (Honey for Oshún) , under the direction of Humberto Solás, I discovered Gibara. He introduced her as though he were introducing an old flame, a forgotten girlfriend from younger days, from the times of Lucía that cinema put back on his path. From that meeting the Festival was born”…these are the words with which Jorge Perugorría, president of the International Gibara Film Festival, kicked off the 2016 edition.

A Passion for Cuban Films

By Egle Procuta

The first time l went to a movie theatre in Cuba was a self-imposed homework assignment. l was studying Spanish at the University of Havana's excellent school for foreigners and working as a freelance reporter for the Canadian Press. My Spanish was getting better day by day, but every bit of practice helped, especially with the Cuban tendency to speak as quickly as their feet move on the dance-ﬂoor. No better Way to tune my ear, I told myself, than going to a Cuban film and having to ﬁgure out what was going on.