Photo: CubadebateDecember and cinema have their alliances. They have them for Havana and for the peoples of the Americas. For the 45th consecutive year, the best and most representative of the region's filmography arrives on the screens of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.
The festival stirs the hearts of cinephiles, and many are preparing to live it. Contemplating continental images from the cinema is a sisterly experience and stimulates the Latin Americanist sentiment. No matter what the subject matter is: even if a film does not explicitly state the decolonizing purpose -which pulled the founding strings of the event-, the background of what America has experienced underlies it.
The film Los domingos mueren más personas, by Argentine filmmaker Iair Said, was chosen to open this Thursday evening at the Charles Chaplin cinema, the Festival, which will run until the 15th.
For this year's edition, which aims, by its very essence, to remain a meeting point and cultural resistance, 2,017 works were received, and 256 of them were selected from 42 countries. There are 110 works in competition.
La Rampa, Yara, Riviera, Charles Chaplin, 23 and 12, and Acapulco movie theaters; and the sub-sites Multicine Infanta, the Glauber Rocha hall of the New Latin American Cinema Foundation, and the Alfredo Guevara hall of the Colegio de San Gerónimo, will host the screenings. The rest of the country will also experience the Festival, as significant films of the event will be shown, while fiction films will be shown on Multivisión and documentaries on Canal Caribe.
Among the most pleasant surprises is the presentation of the first two chapters of the series One Hundred Years of Solitude, produced by Netflix, at the Yara cinema, on Friday 6, at 8:00 p.m. A tribute to Alfredo Guevara, on his centenary, the 2nd Forum of Animation Juan Padrón in memoriam, and the Palestinian film showcase are part of the Festival's days.
Living a living cinema is the invitation of this festival that, starting today, will turn Havana into the capital of a filmography that includes and represents us.
