The Villa Blanca, (White Village) as Gibara is also known, is the head of the municipality of the same name and will host the 19th edition of the event until April 19 and whose executive direction will be in charge of the director of Culture of the Holguin territory, Jaqueline Tapia.
Tapia will be in charge of that responsibility, while Sergio Benvenuto will be the president of the event, which will also feature national cinema.
The agenda of the National Festival ‘For the First Time’ (held in February), articulated as a prelude to FicGibara, returned to the date dreamed by filmmaker Humberto Solas since he created the Manifesto of Poor Cinema, said Tapia.
At a press conference, FicGibara members Aldo Benvenuto Solas, Rene de la Cruz, Ruben Ricardo Infante, Rafael Grillo and Tapia announced this year’s promotional spot designed by Nelson Ponce, a veteran of the event’s visual campaigns.
As FicGibara’s theater and galas coordinator, René de la Cruz gave a brief account of some of the cultural proposals to be included in the 2025 program.
From the emblematic Theater of the Seasons in Matanzas, the presence of the Holguín-based companies Palabras al Viento, of oral narration, and Codanza, to the visit of actors such as Jacqueline Arenal as jury, Tahimi Alvariño, Ernesto Jimenez, Osvaldo and Andrea Doimeadios.
This edition has a portfolio of more than 500 registered works and according to its president; this is a very complete edition, which has managed to insert international juries.
It has even created a jury of animation and documentaries, with Cuban professionals and from different parts of the world.
Twenty-five films were chosen from the host nation; from Argentina, 11; Spain, nine; Mexico and Peru, six; and five each from Colombia, the United States, Chile and Uruguay.
The Gibara Festival has always been a festival of thought, creation and projection; the theoretical forums address more urgently the reality of creativity in cinema.
Gender, diversity, film heritage, production, distribution, environment, filmmakers’ meetings, among others, he concluded.
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