martes, 14 de abril de 2009

Cuba Competing in Documentary Film Festival in Qatar

HAVANA, Cuba, April 14 (acn) Cuba is competing with 16 producers and four items in the 5th Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival, which opened on Monday in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where 102 works are competing.

The Caribbean archipelago, along with Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil, represent Latin America in this event, which is characterized by creativity and lyricism, without neglecting sharp denunciations of world reality and the perseverance for human improvement.

Prensa Latina news agency reports that Cuba will participate with the short Historias entre Ciclones, and the medium-length films Volveré y seremos millones, Una Isla entre dos Imperios, Camino al Desastre y Asediados por huracanes, as well as El Mérito es Estar Vivo and
Destinos, out of competition.

Some 200 producers from 60 nations are vying for the Al Jazeera Golden Prize, granted by the main television network of the Arab world and the Middle East, which also has channels specialized in documentaries, for children and sports programs.

Under the slogan Five Years of Hope, the event includes the categories of short, medium and full-length films, represented by 43, 41, and 18 works respectively, sources from the Organizing Committee told Prensa Latina.

Proof of the producers’ connection with the planet’s reality is the high number of items referring to denunciations of Israel’s repressive policy against the Palestinian people, climate change, and the proliferation of poverty.

(Concursa Cuba en Festival de Cine Documental en Qatar)

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