CubaPLUS Magazine

 The Wild Woman triumphs again, being crowned this Saturday with the Lucía Award for best fiction feature film at the XVIII Gibara International Film Festival, held in that city in the Cuban province of Holguín.

 The closing ceremony took place at the Jibá Cinema, where Lapso (Brazil, 2023), by Caroline Cavalcanti, also won the award for best fiction short film.

  Meanwhile, ¨Los océanos son los verdaderos contenidos¨ (Cuba-Italy, 2023), by Tommaso Santambrogio, previously crowned best fiction feature film with the collateral award from the Cuban Association of Cinematographic Press, received a special award.

 Special mention was given to ¨Si otra vez¨ (Cuba, 2023), by Annia Quesada Milord; ¨Sin papeles¨ (Canada, 2023), by Christian de la Cortina; and ¨Saudade¨ (Cuba-Portugal, 2023), by Sandra Ramy, Sandra Lopes, Inti Herrera and X Alfonso.

 The Jury of Documentaries and Animation awarded the best documentary to ¨Un hogar sin armario¨ (Spain-Argentina, 2023), by Eduardo Cubillo; while the award for best animation went to ¨Amapolas en mi ventana¨ (Colombia, 2023), by Grettel Melissa Quintana.

 In this section, ¨Jíbaro¨ (Documentary short film, Cuba, 2023), by Osmanys Sánchez Arañó; ¨Assum Preto, un grito desde el margen¨ (Documentary short film, Brazil, 2023), by Cícero Fraga; and ¨Techo de cristal¨ (Animation short film, Argentina, 2022), by Liliana Romero, received a mention.

 This year, the Gibara International Film Festival resumed Cine en Construcción, which this evening awarded ¨Boxeo Habana Social Club¨ (documentary feature film in development, Italy- Spain-Cuba), by Cristiano Regina. The work will receive support for translation, subtitling, delivery, promotion at international festivals and distribution management by Magale.

 In addition, ¨El día del cobro¨ (short fiction film in development, Cuba), by Luis Lago, and ¨Reportaje¨ (fiction feature film in development, Mexico), by Nicolás Gutiérrez Wenhammar, received a mention.
 The first of these proposals will also receive support for translation, subtitling, delivery, promotion at international festivals and distribution management by Magale, while the second will receive advice for editing, granted by Estudios Churubusco SA.

 The festival director, Sergio Benvenuto, announced at the event that from 2025 the event will be called the Gibara International Low-income Film Festival, in accordance with the founding bases set out by Humberto Solás, its founder, in the Low-income Film Manifesto.

 In addition, it will be held again in the month of April, as in the first editions.

 (Taken from Prensa Latina)