Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase in Santiago de Cuba

With the screening of "Toussaint Louverture" Haitian Franco film, in the newly renovated Cuba theater, was launched the Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase.

Fifteen films from Dominican Republic, France, Haiti, Colombia, Cuba, Canada, Guadeloupe, Cayman Islands, Bahamas and the United States, will be shown at the Cuba cinema on Enramadas Street until November 2nd.

There will also be a sign of short stories for children, made in Costa Rica, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Guadeloupe and Venezuela: Chester, Anancy and Common Sense, The Red House, Old Rabbit is hard to kill, The snake from heaven , Beneath the sheet, Night of the stars, and Things to change.

The films that will be screened at the "Cuba"cinema are: Colombian "The color does not make the thief"; Cuban "Roble de olor", "Nosotros y el jazz", "Yo soy del son a la sala", y "20 años"; Haitian-Canadian, "Alma negra" ("Black Soul"); "Calypso Rose", from Trinidad and Tobago; from Guadalupe: "La felicidad de Elsa" ("Elsa's happiness"); "¡Traga!" ("Swallow"), from Cayman Islands, and "Lluvia" ("Rain"), from Bahamas.

Completing the program "Trópico de sangre" ("Blood Tropics") and Hombres y dioses" ("Men and Gods") from Dominican Republic, and two other films: from USA-Cuba, "Maestra" ("Teacher") and US-Haiti, "Los amores de un zombi" ("The Loves of a Zombie").

The Travelling Caribbean Film Showcase was founded in 2006 to promote greater visibility of Caribbean cinema in the region and elsewhere in the world.

In this regard, UNESCO says that the initiative is of immense value in the preservation of cultural diversity and the defense of the best ethical values and mutual understanding between the peoples of the Caribbean.

Source: Caribbean News