Echoes of the New Latin American Film Festival in Cuba

According to the organizers of the event, the programming designed for the various theaters in the capital that hosted the exhibitions ends on Sunday: Chaplin, Cinema Yara, on the 23rd and 12th, and Acapulco.

Although it is a closure, this leaves the door open towards December next year, when a meeting of the Cuban public with the documentary film industry and other countries will take place as a 10-day panorama again, to insert ourselves into reality. . “I conceived of the seventh art.”

Although the performances of this festival have closed tonight, the award ceremony took place last Friday at the Charles Chaplin Cinema, where the Choral Honor Award was awarded to Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez.

Female cinematographers from Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil have emerged and demonstrated their strength in the 7th Art of Latin America by sweeping several categories in the competition.

The Bolivian director Kero Russo was the biggest winner in the competition, after he was crowned with the coral for the best feature film for his movie El Gran movimiento, and he also won the directing, sound and editing departments.

Among the great winners was Santiago Miter’s 1985 film Argentina, whose story of trials following the civil and military dictatorship (1976-1983) earned actor Ricardo Darren Corral for his role as lawyer Julio Stracera. The film also won for Art Direction and Screenplay.

The jury received more than two thousand films representing all the countries of the continent, especially Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, from which it also chose to include Latin America in the perspective exhibition and the specials section.

The program included a theoretical event that paid tribute to Cuban director Nicholas Guillén Landrian by showing a documentary by Ernesto Daranas dedicated to his imprint and analysis of the audiovisual film Inner Downtown (2001), presented in the United States by Nicholas himself.

The accompanying agenda included the exhibition Classics Restored, International Contemporary Panorama, an exhibition of 30 posters by artists from 11 countries and editorial editions from the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry.

Founded on December 3, 1979 by Cuban director Alfredo Guevara, the competition awards the Grand Coral Prize as its highest distinction, which symbolizes the vast coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea.

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