The long-awaited event, which takes place every December in Havana and other Cuban cities, returns this year with novelties in terms of categories, guest personalities and countries vying for awards .

Out of 2,17 thousand works received, 256 were selected from 42 countries around the world: 21 from Latin America and the rest from Germany, Belgium, Canada, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, as well as Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Ecuador.

As big news the event is presenting the world premiere of Netflix’s series “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, of which the first two chapters will be screened, in an adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s literary masterpiece.

This chapters will be screened on Friday, December 6 at 8:00 p.m. local time at the Yara cinema, in EL Vedado neighborhood.

Restored classics will also be presented. This year two such titles have come from Argentina, the country to which a special tribute and section will be dedicated at the event.

The first of these films is an Argetine drama, premiering in Cuba in 2024, and shot 50 years ago, “La tregua”, by Sergio Renant, based on the namesake novel by Mario Benedetti; and “Camila”, by Argentine María Luisa Bemberg, a landmark among all the films screened at the festival, which won the Coral Award.

This year’s edition of the Havana Festival of New Latin American Cinema will feature a film show from Palestine.

Other novelties are the launch of the book “Animation and comics from the life of Juan Padron”, as well as the event being broadcast on Cuban television, and exhibitions and other books launches.

The Havana International Film Festival will close on December 15, but two days before, the awarded films will parade in the event’s closing gala.

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