With the presentation of the 2025 Lucía de Honor Award. To actress Verónica Lynn, National Theater and Television Award. A critic and researcher Luciano Castillo and the Casa Gitana Project. The 19th edition of the Gibara International Poor Film Festival (FICGibara) was inaugurated.
Alexis Triana, director of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry. Expressed this Tuesday in the opening remarks the importance of returning to Gibara every year. To continue the work of Humberto Solás and defend. Above all things, the idea of achieving a better country and, within it. Gibara will be the sense of utopia that does not give up.
The fact that the Festival is being held in the midst of the current context. It is proof of the will and cultural policy that this country has to demonstrate that, no matter what happens. We will never give up in our sense of artistic creation, he said.
Preceded by the traditional multicolored parade by Independencia Street. The gala held at the Jibá Cinema paid tribute to Edesio Alejandro. Who recently passed away and created atmospheres and soundtracks for the films Clandestinos (1987). Hello Hemingway (1990), Madagascar (1994), among others. Jorge Luis Sánchez, who died at the beginning of 2025. Whose film legacy includes works such as El Benny (2006) and Buscando a Casal (2020).
FICGIbara, which will run until April 19, featured the premiere of the film Natural Phenomena. Directed by Cuban Marcos Díaz Sosa, in addition to the presentation of the collateral juries. In which the actress Jacqueline Arenal, the director Patricia Ramos, the producer Tarik El Idrissi, the makeup artist Saraï Fiszel, from France and the Uruguayan filmmaker Yamandú Testa.
Among the initial activities of the day were the exhibition “Cartels vs Violence”, by the CartelON Project and the panel “Rewriting Stories: Gender and Cinema Today”. Moderated by the journalist Rafael Grillo, at the Raúl Gómez García House of Culture. The panel included the participation of figures such as the Swiss director and screenwriter Laura Cazador. The singer-songwriter Rochy Ameneiro. The renowned puppeteer and artistic director Rubén Darío Salazar.
Also with the Cultural, Economic and Political Affairs attaché of the Swiss Embassy in Cuba, Febe Tognina, and the screenwriter Patricia Ramos. The 19th edition of FICGibara, which returns to the original date and name with which it was founded by filmmaker Humberto Solás in 2003. It has among its precepts to defend and promote the creation of low-income seventh art with a high aesthetic proposal. Establishing itself as a cinematographic reference for Cuba and the world.
With information from CNA
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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