The closing ceremony will be take place at Cine Jiba in the evening, when the best of all 83 selected films, including 11 fiction films, 24 short-length films, 11 documentaries, 22 short-length documentaries, and 15 animated films, will be honored.
The Culture House is holding a talk with acors Jorge Martinez, Lola Amores, Alberto Corona, Liliana Lam, and Rene de la Cruz, followed by the International Social Film Festival Showcase of Castilla-La Mancha (FECISO) at this city’s Municipal Museum.
Under the theme “Filma el Oriente!” (Film Eastern Cuba), this year’s event retook Cinema in Construction and invited to the Factory of Low-Budget Film project, which focus on supporting audiovisual production in the country’s eastern region and Camagüey.
For their outstanding contribution to Cuban cinema, three personalities will receive the 2024 Lucia de Honor Award. They are filmmakers Manuel Herrera, “Zafiros, Locura Azul” (Zafiros, Blue Madness, 1997) and Manuel Perez, “El Hombre de Maisinicu” (The Man from Maisinicu, 1973), and cinematographer Livio Delgado “Un Hombre de Exito” (A Successful Man, 1986).
Film, music, literature, visual and performing arts come together to celebrate a festival that each year holds the idea of its founder, outstanding filmmaker Humberto Solas (1941-2008).
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