Havana Gets Ready to Host Intl. Festival of the New Latin American Cinema

When there are only 6 days left for its inauguration, the 35th edition of Havana’s International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, to be held on December 5-15 is already getting its last preparations ready for its celebration.
In its first edition without its founder and main promoter, Cuban filmmaker and intellectual Alfredo Guevara, the prestigious Festival will include the screening of some 400 films, most of them from the region.
Ivan Giroud, appointed in May general director of the Festival, said that the opening will e in charge of Cuba’s Contemporary Dance Ensemble, and that the first screening will be that of the Chilean movie Gloria, by Sebastian Lelio, which hopes to win a Coral Prize in Best Feature Film.
Giroud specified that competing works are 22 shorts, 21 first works, 30 documentaries, 31 animated films, 25 unpublished scripts, 33 posters and 21 feature films, a category that includes two films by Cuban directors: Boccacerias habaneras, by Arturo Soto, and Jirafas, by Enrique Alvarez.
As special moments of the Festival he mentioned tributes to Cuban filmmakers whodied recently, like Daniel Diaz, Camilo Vives and Alfredo Guevara, along with the world premiere of the documentary Mercedes Sosa, la voz de Latinoamerica, by Argentinean Rodrigo Hernan.

(ACN)