Havana. The 37th New Latin American International Film Festival will present 159 films in the contest sections and will screened 444 films from the continent and other regions, as announced Festival’s director Iván Giroud.
He stated the event, to be celebrated from December 3 to 13, selected 23 feature films, 22 medium and short films, 21 first films, 36 documentaries, 33 animation films and 24 unpublished scripts, besides 24 posters.
El Clan, by Pablo Trapero (Argentina), with credentials won at Venice and Toronto Festivals, will be screened at the opening night at Havana’s Karl Marx theatre.
Among the collaterals exhibits, Latinoamérica en perspectiva has a new chapter: Pueblos y culturas originarios.
Another new section is Galas, with non-competing 10 titles the organizers has chosen for their aesthetical values and prestigious international route like El Apóstata, by Federico Veiroj, and La calle de la amargura, by Arturo Ripstein.
Giroud highlighted the quality of the films in this festival: “it was a hard and difficult selection that made us to rethink some concepts”, he said.
He considered that while commemorating the 30 years of the creation of the Foundation of the New Latin American Cinema, this is a fine moment for the seventh art in the area and also referred to the need of greater investments to improve movie rooms and informed that two of those located on the 23rd Street cinema circuit will have new equipment for digital screening.
Among the international guests attending the event are British artist Geraldine Chaplin, president of the jury in the fiction category, Chilean filmmaker and writer Miguel Littín, American actor Ethan Hawke and Italian director and script writer Marco Bellochio, to who is dedicated a retrospective during the Festival.
The section Otras latitudes now includes German and Spanish films, international contemporary films and HBO documentaries.
Sector Industrias proposes to reactivate the post- production contest, besides its usual scripts workshops, conferences and master classes.
Source: Cubadebate
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