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The jury of the IV INSTAR Film Festival announces the winner of the Nicolás Guillén Landrián Award, which is given to the film that best addresses, from the cinematographic language, a taboo subject in its corresponding society. The event closes with the presence of its Executive Director and Artistic Director.
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Interviews
December 09, 2023
And How Miserable is the Home of Evil, by Saleh Kashefi
Iranian filmmaker Saleh Kashefi, currently exiled in Switzerland, talks about his documentary And How Miserable is the Home of Evil (2022). Appropriating official archives from the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, Saleh Kashefi has created a political fiction as forceful as it is ambiguous.
December 09, 2023
Veritas, una cinta de Eliecer Jiménez Almeida
Cuban filmmaker Eliecer Jimenez Almeida talks about his documentary Veritas (2022). The film reveals another face of the Bay of Pigs invasion (Cuba, 1961) in the voice of its protagonists. The horrors of the war are exhaustively relived by these men who, from exile, have not stopped missing their country.
December 06, 2023
Interview with Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
José Luis Aparicio, artistic director of INSTAR Film Festival, talks with Portuguese filmmaker Joana Pimenta and Brazilian filmmaker Adirley Queirós, responsible for films such as Once Upon a Time Brasilia (2017, Special Mention: Signs of Life at Locarno) and Mato seco em chamas (2022).
December 05, 2023
Taxibol, a film by Tommaso Santambrogio
Italian Tommaso Santambrogio talks about his film Taxibol (2022). In this proposal, while walking the streets of Havana, Lav Diaz, a Filipino filmmaker, and Gustavo Fleita, a Cuban cab driver, discuss politics, emigration, social conditions and love, creating a portrait of their own countries.
December 09, 2021
The spiritual road movies of Alonso Ruizpalacios
A conversation between young Cuban filmmaker José Luis Aparicio and Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios. Great films of Mexican and Latin American cinema, awarded at numerous international festivals, have been works by Ruizpalacios, including Güeros (2014), Museum (2018) and A cop movie (2021).
July 07, 2021
Performance and self-representation: Cuban cinema of the 1980s
As part of the esTratos program series, an INSTAR initiative to rescue Cuba's cultural archive, we present this interview with Ricardo Acosta by the young filmmaker José Luis Aparicio. Ricardo Acosta is an important Cuban editor and creative consultant with a relevant career in the international film industry.
April 28, 2021
PM case: Cinema, power & censorship, with Orlando Jiménez
This interview is part of a series of programs called esTratos, an INSTAR initiative aimed at rescuing Cuba's cultural archive. In the interview, Orlando Jiménez Leal talks about the PM case, which was the first major clash between Cuban artists and the censorship policy of the young revolutionary state.
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