Simultaneous premiere tomorrow of film Lisanka

Havana.The comedy Lisanka (2009), of Daniel Díaz Torres, will be used for the first time simultaneously this Thursday in film rooms of this capital and of counties.

The premiere will take place in Yara, Payret, Acapulco, Room Two of Multicine Infanta, Lido, Boulevard, Ambassador, Regla and main cinemas of counties, informed the Cuban Institute of the Art and Film Industry.

The history lapses in Cuba, in 1962. During the Crisis of October, Lisanka, a young tractorist, should choose among three men that disputed her love, two Cubans and a Soviet .

The script, of Díaz Torres, Eduardo del Llano and Francisco García is based on the story In the kilometer 32, of the writer Francisco García.

Díaz Torres` filmography includes Love me and you will see (1995), Kleines Tropicana (1997), to Be made Swedish (2000) and in route to the Eden (2007).

Miriel Cejas debuts in the cinema in the protagonistic of Lisanka, paper with which obtained the Prize to the best Feminine Performance in the XX Ibero-American Festival of Ceará, Brazil.

Among other interpreters figure Carlos Enrique Admirante, Rafael Ernesto Hernández, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Enrique Molina, Jorge Alí, Raúl Pomares, Kirill Zolygin, Vladislav Vetrov and Osvaldo Doimeadiós.

Also José Ambrosio Pérez, Paula Alí, Otto Ortiz, Giselle Fundora, Eduardo del Llano, Antulio Marín, Meneses, Jorge Molina and Rogelio Blaín.

Use for the first time in Camagüey movie Martí, the eye of the canary

With the national premiere of this film of the maker Fernando Pérez, this Tuesday began in the city of Camagüey the XVII National Shop of Film Critic.

With the national premiere of the film Martí, the eye of the canary (2010), of the maker Fernando Pérez, this Tuesday began in the city of Camagüey, the XVII National Shop of Film Critic, in edition dedicated to the woman's presence like creator in the Cuban cinema, to the 50 years of the Cinemateca of Cuba and the new makers.

The event will extend until the day 19 with the theoretical debates, and until final of month will be shown to the population more than a hundred audiovisual realizations, among them 15 film titles, among those that highlight Dialectical of the spectator, of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Other ways to think the Cuban cinema, of Juan Antonio García Borrero.

As invited artists participate in the exchange the director of the Cinemateca of Colombia, Sergio Becerra; the makers Marina Ochoa, Arturo Soto, Jorge Molina and Karel Duchase, the artists Eslinda Núñez, Roberto Perdomo and Dayana Legrá, and the critical Luciano Castillo, Frank Padrón, Desiderio Navarro and other outstanding specialists of the yard.

New Fernando Pérez`s largometraje exhibits and exteriorize to the Apostle between the nine and the 17 years of age, only years in that he knew closely to his Homeland and in those that learned how to love her and to understand it, to make the great work that he took him the rest of his life. The movie is not a biography: it is a spiritual itinerary. (Juventud Rebelde)

Session in Camagüey workshop of Film Appreciation

The II National workshop of Film Appreciation of the cinema clubs in Cuba began today in this oriental city, of strong tradition in the movement of fond of the seventh art.

Theoretical events, driven by noted Cuban intellectuals, and the projection of films of different countries will tinge the debates of the event, summoned by the National Federation of Cineclubes of Cuba (FNCC), until the next October 9. Among the topics to discuss stands out The postmodern cinema and the national poet's documentalist Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989), originating of Camagüey and who, besides the poems, it was bound to the journalism and the musical world of the country.

The delegates to the workshop movies like the German will appreciate The life of the other ones, Pull fiction, of United States, and Person, taken place in Sweden.

The present edition is dedicated to the anniversaries 50 of the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industry (ICAIC) and 20 of the cinema club of Camagüey François Truffautt.

Camagüey, next to the counties of Villa Clara and Matanzas, show the best results in the gender of the appreciation, elementary primary resource for the creation and the film critic, affirmed here today the FNCC.

The organization of cinefils of all the ages carries out, also, the shops of Creation and Animation, as well as the events Yumurí and of Winter, to exchange experiences and to propel interesting projects of these circles.

Cuba is current member of the International Federation of Cineclubs, with that which followers' of the audiovisual art productions in the bigger than the Antilles open up to the world.

Centenary of the first filmations in Camagüey

A century is achieved in the actual month of the first filmations in the province of Camagüey of two shorts made by Enrique Díaz Quesada, considered the father of the cuban cinematography.

Titled “panoramic Camagüey” and “The parties in the city of Camagüey”, were materializad with hours of difference, and in both the director did also the fuctions of camarographer and productor.

The investigator and proffesor Armando Pérez Padrón, specialist of Provincial Center of the Movie, expressed to AIN that the originals, of which there is not copy, desappeared in Habana in 1922 in a destructor fireof the work of the movie man , except the film “The parkof Palatino”.

He addthat the movie man arrived to Camagüey convocated por la propietary enterprise of the local trainsto finish the filmations work around that mean of transport, but the el road didn`t made to cause of the posterior negative of the entity to execute the deal.

The first of the films aborded scens of the urban citadine arounds, and the other one of the editions of the fair that was cwlwbrated with its central area in the Square of the Charity.

Enrique Díaz Quesada (1883-1923) was, in the history of the cuban movie, the pioneer maker of the fiction silents films, of the most far antecesor of the information spaces with images, and of 17 of the 40 fiction films of the del period 1907-22, according to the digital version digital of the magazine Somos Jóvenes.
Enrique Diaz Quesada.

Festival of French Cinema in Camagüey

Camagüey, With the exhibition of the film Murderers (Meurtrières), reward of the President of the Jury of the section A Certain Regard of the Festival of Cannes, will begin today the subsidize of the XII Festival of French Cinema in this city.

Used for the first time in the 2006, the managing Patrick Grandperret will begin the cycle of projections of works of the contemporary cinematography of the European nation, in the room of video New World.

Another of the proposals will be The France (2007), of Serge Bozon, prize Jean Vigo 2007 to the best longeron and the prize of the Mexican festival FICCO 2008 to the best director of fiction; selected by the magazine Cahiers du Cinema one of the 10 better French movies of the year 2007.

Also, in the appointment foreseen up to June 17 will be in billboard The witness (2007), of André Téchiné, Prize of the Jury of the Czech Festival of cinema Gay and Lésbico to the best longeron.

Organized by the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industry, the Embassy of France in Cuba and the French Alliance, this year the Festival surrenders homage to the film director Alain Resnais.

Outside of France, this Festival is the one that more gathers spectators for the convocation level and the knowledge of the Gallic cinema in the island, besides the collaboration sustained in the environment of the cinematography. (Yanetsy León González)

Between myths and realities in the history of the Cuban cinema

By: Yuldys Márquez Díaz \ Camagüey Television

To break up with the myths is an act, more than of everything, of courage; to try to persuade the human beings that believe or not, in such or more which history, it can be to rain on that wet, but in spite of it, the cinema space debates denominated "Symbolic City", favored by the Center of Cinema and the National Union of Artists of Cuba and that is carried out every Wednesday in the Video Room New World of Camagüey, it proposed in its last edition the topic of two myths that are about in the history of the cinema: the "icaicentrism" and the call author focus when counting the history of the Cuban cinema.

The specialist Juan Antonio García who alternates these debates with Armando Pérez Census, observed like when counting the history of the Cuban cinema, erroneously we think that the kilometer zero is with the inauguration of the Cuban Institute of Film Industry (ICAIC), thought that reinforces the thesis of a version "icaicentrist" of the matter. But this is not real, because are all the productions carried out in Cuba that don't respond to the interests of the ICAI, out as is the silent cinema , the prerrevolucionary sound cinema, the productions of the International school of Cinema San Antonio de los Baños, fílmics studies of the Revolutionary Armed forces, also the fílmics studies of television, the cinema creation clubs, etc..

The expert also conversed on how the history of the Cuban cinema was counted starting from the impressions of those denominated cinema critics, it is the history that go counting and canonizing at the same time, "this is the good thing and this is the bad thing". TO that history, story or not, objective in its moment and why not, subjective in occasions, it would be necessary to add him the experience of the cinema in Cuba. For example that importance had in its moment the arrival of materials of filming of Czechoslovakia and not of United States that the one that was used up to 1961, was and other so many example could make an appointment this way so that was the true history of the cinema in Cuba.

The specialist assures that if we have to look for the kilometer zero of the history of the Cinema in Cuba, is not in fact in the ICAIC, is necessary to go outside and to find it in those first productions that led the ICAIC in time. Also to build this history asserts that "it would be necessary to formulate and to think instead of a group of movies, a group of practical."

The space that has as objective the debate film, also proposed and like complement, the evaluation of the aesthetics captured in the documentaries "P.M." carried out by Sabad Cabrera and Orlando Jiménez in 1961 and "NOW" of Santiago Álvarez; besides a sequence of the movie "Memoirs of the Underdevelopment."

"Che, The Argentine" Opens at Cuban Theaters

HAVANA, Cuba. The film "Che, The Argentine", by Steven Soderbergh will be playing as of Thursday at theaters throughout Cuba, after being presented in many countries, including the U.S., and during the 30th Latin American Film Festival in Havana last December.

Starring Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, a chief promoter of the cinematographic project, the film will be screened over a week at movie and video theaters. Its second part, "Che The Guerrilla", will be premiered on May 14 and will be also on shown for a week.

Nearly a year after the world premiere of Che in the Cannes Festival, Soderbergh donated twenty copies of the two part production to the Cuban Film Institute (ICIAC). The donation was announced by the film's producer during the Latin American Film Festival in Havana in December, 2008.

The Puerto Rican actor, who won the Best Actor prize in Cannes for his portrayal of Che, traveled to the Cuban capital for the festival. He expressed his admiration for the Argentinean revolutionary and noted that he deserves respect for having being such a consistent man.

The roles of Raul Castro and Camilo Cienfuegos are played by Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro and Colombian Santiago Cabrera.

The two-part film, a U.S-France-Spain production, features the life of the revolutionary after his mythic trip through America masterly portrayed in "Motorcycle Diaries" by Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles, starring Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.

(Cinta "Che, el argentino" se estrena en cines de Cuba)

Films by Spaniard Luis Buñuel Screening in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba. A film season of the Mexican period of renowned Spanish director Luis Buñuel will be presented in Havana’s Riviera Movie Theater from May 14th through the 20th.

Luís Buñuel.

Born in Spain (1900), his work was influenced by his membership of the surrealist movement, of which painter Salvador Dalí (who contributed to the shooting of Un Perro Andaluz and La edad de oro) was also a part.

Buñuel lived in Spain, the United States, and Mexico, a country that became his second homeland and where he made 20 of the movies making up his vast filmography.

The work of this maestro of cinema history -controversial due to its provocative and iconoclastic style- won many awards and recognition.

He died in the Mexican capital in 1983, leaving a valuable legacy of over 30 films.

(Ciclo de filmes de Luis Buñuel en La Habana)

Cuban Film El Benny Presented in Madagascar

HAVANA, Cuba. The Malagasy public enjoyed the Cuban film El Benny during its presentation at the festival devoted to Latin America organized by the French Alliance of Majunga, a city located on the northwest coast of the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar.

Majunga, a tourist destination for national and international vacationers, made it possible for many movie fans to be in contact with Cuban cinema, by way of this film by producer Jorge Luis Sánchez.

The audience had the opportunity to get to know many aspects of the life and work of the late Cuban singer, composer and band leader, who was very popular in the 1950’s.

During his artistic career, Benny was part of several groups, like the famous Matamoros Trio and the band of Dámaso Pérez Prado, the creator of the internationally famous mambo.

Benny Moré, whose real name was Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré, was one of Cuba’s best singers of all time. He was born in the city of Santa Isabel de las Lajas in 1919, and died in Havana in 1963. He toured many countries with his Giant Band and made dozens of songs popular, like his Rumberos del Ayer and Bonito y Sabroso, and pieces by other composers,
like Elige tú que canto yo and Mucho Corazón.

(Se presenta filme El Benny en festival de Madagascar)

Cuban Films Exhibited in Lebanon

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 20 (acn) A festival of Cuban cinema was inaugurated in packed theater at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut , on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC).

The week-long Festival, which opened with Grammy nominee Strawberry and Chocolate, by Tomas Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, has the auspices of the Cuban Embassy in Lebanon and the prestigious Academy.

Also to be screened during the event are "Roble de olor", by Rigoberto López; "Suite Habana", by Fernando Pérez, and "That Silly Age", by Pavel Giroud, as well as the exhibition of some posters on Cuban films.

Khalil Smayra, audiovisual director of the renowned Lebanese cultural institution expressed his satisfaction for screening Cuban movies to mark the 50th anniversary ICAIC's founding.

For her part, M. Isabel Velázquez, in charge of Cultural Affairs with the Cuban diplomatic mission, made reference to the objectives of her government of bringing culture to the people, hence the coincidence of ICAIC's founding with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution five decades
ago.

She explained that despite the negative impact of the US blockade on national life, Cuban cinema has maintained its identity and essence, with a spirit of renewal.

In this regard, she highlighted the celebration in Cuba of the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema and the work of the International Film and Television School located in San Antonio de los Baños, on the outskirts of Havana.

(Semana de cine cubano en Líbano)

Conferences and theoretical debates tinge the days of cinematographic National workshop in Camagüey.

By: Yuldys Márquez Díaz| CamagüeyTelevision

For sixteen years critical and specialists , the public of Camagüey and actors meet to debate on the events relationships with the cinema in Cuba and in the rest of Latin America in cinematographic National workshop in Camagüey.

In this edition diverse panels of expert interac with the people of Camagüey on topics as the first years of the Cuban Institute of Film Industry, the magazine Cuban Cinema, the mobile cinema, the news ICAIC, the critic and the education like formers of a film culture and the sixty as period of an raises of the coproductions, among other contents.

The event besides its theoretical program, presents in diverse cultural institutions of the county , conversations and samples on Latin American films.

The sixteenth edition of cinematographic National workshop in Camagüey has gathered in Camagüey to actors, cameramen, soundmen, directors, journalists and other experts interested in the world of the seventh art.

Absolute premiere of Cuban film in XVI National Shop of Film Critic

Camagüey, march 11. - The film “The announcement”, of the Cuban Enrique Pineda Barnet, had in the city of Camagüey its absolute premiere in the opening of the XVI National Workshop of Film Critic.

This work develops the plot in a Havanan family of the present time, headed by an old widow and spiritualistic.

The projection began an exhibition program of more than 70 movies coming from America, Europe and Asia, until next day 31, in eight rooms of the town.

Include amomg other anthological realizations originated in the Island to “Histories of the Revolution”, “Memoirs of the underdevelopment”, “The death of a bureaucrat” The twelveseats” - all of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea".

They also figure in the program “The rebellious youth”, of Julio García Espinosa, “Manuela”, of Humberto Solás, and the documentals “Now” and “Hurricane”, of Santiago Álvarez.

Dedicated to the anniversary 50 of the ICAIC, one of the first cultural institutions created by the Revolution, the Shop will sesion to the 14 and it will approach topics like the production Cuban fílmic in the decade of the years 60 of the XX century and the critic, and the mobile cinema in the country.

The audiovisual sphere in the county also has, among other expressions, the realization of works in charge of the telecenters net, the Association Hermanos Saíz and independent authors, and the international competitions The Warehouse of the Image and the Festival of Video Art.

In September the centennial of the first film will be completed materialized in the provincial territory, the documentary The parties of The Charity in the City of Camagüey, of Enrique Pérez Quesada, and of 1959 at 1961 the channel worked in the town 11, pioneer of the television radio stations inside Cuba.

Among the assistants to the inauguration, made in the Main theater, there were Julio Cesar García, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the county, Enrique Pineda Barnet, the film director Manuel Herrera, Verónica Lynn and Héctor Noas, - two of the interpreters of the referred tape - and the actresses Eslinda Núñez and Mirtha Ibarra. (AIN).