The fifth edition of the INSTAR Film Festival will be held during the week of October 28 to November 3, 2024, with physical screenings in Barcelona, Berkeley, Madrid, Munich and Paris. The vast majority of the films will be available to Cuba online through the Festhome platform. Along with the selection of films in competition, where fifteen international works will aspire to the Nicolás Guillén Landrián Award, we present the new section “Panorama of Cuban Cinema”, which brings us closer to some of the most recent and significant titles of the island's audiovisual production and its diaspora. In the “Retrospective” section, we will exhibit a showcase of contemporary Chinese independent cinema, organized in collaboration with the Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA).

We thank all the people and organizations that have contributed to this edition of our festival, especially the filmmakers and their production and distribution companies: Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA), Doc Nomads, KIT Films, Square Eyes, Estudio ST, Vega Alta Films, Lx Filmes, Spectre Productions, Geba Films, Geração 80, The Dark, Encuadre Films, Lantica Media, Sky Films, Alief, Levo Films, New Asian Filmmakers Collective, Mercurio, Lights On, Free Media, Mal de Mer Films, Suha Documentary LLC, Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), FILA20, Micromundo, Mediocielo Films, Hamariyo, ikaik films, Cooperativa Producciones, Habanero Film Sales, Cacha Films, Cosmic Productions, Cuarto Oscuro Cine and Stær.