With the slogan “Filming Cinema,” the spotlights of the Havana New Cinema Festival are ready to shine on the most important event of the Seventh Art in Cuba. Organized this year to represent the event beyond Latin America.
At a press conference, the festival’s director, Tania Delgado, detailed the program schedule from December 4th to 14th, announcing the activities. Including a special section dedicated to the BRICS countries. Featuring one film from each of these nations: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
This selection for the 46th Havana New Latin American Cinema Festival includes films from 42 countries across different latitudes. Such as Europe, Asia, and the respective nations of our region, Delgado announced.
From Europe, France, Spain, Italy, and Norway are participating. She noted, while the festival will present a significant exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Estudios Churubusco. One of the oldest film studios in Latin America, located in the neighborhood of the same name in Mexico City.
Estudios Churubusco will be honored this year with one of the festival’s Coral Awards, the festival director added. “We are very pleased to bring a representation from Mexico to celebrate the studio’s eight decades,” she stated.
Another noteworthy aspect of this edition is the number of works submitted by filmmakers. More than two thousand were received, including 1,631 films, 120 posters, and 474 screenplays—figures that have remained stable over the last four years, she explained.
Also the official selection features 222 works, 114 of which are in competition. While the rest belong to the event’s various sections, such as Latin America in Perspective, International Panorama. Other Latitudes, Environments, and Special Presentations, explained the festival director.
The festival includes the same competition sections, as well as the annual exhibition of restored films. In this regard, an Argentine film directed by Hugo del Carril, which has never been seen in Cuba, will be screened, she noted.
We will also have the usual theoretical events, and a space dedicated to commemorating the centenary of the festival’s founding president, Alfredo Guevara. We will dedicate an entire day to remembering him as an indispensable figure in Cuban cinema, Delgado pointed out.
Futhermore the festival will run through conferences, exhibitions, films in competition, and tributes. And will also include the launch of a filmmaking grant for women over 50, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund, she explained.
Also noteworthy in 2025 is the Third Latin American and Caribbean Animation Forum “Juan Padrón in Memoriam,” from December 8th to 11th. An event that seeks the participation of students from audiovisual faculties and aims to foster reflection, learning, and cooperation among specialists and scholars in the field.
The Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema is no longer just for Cuba, but for the world, and its purpose has diversified accordingly.
With information from Prensa Latina
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