Events
Everything that begins has its end, including the II INSTAR Film Festival. For the closing, we convened a conversation between the artivist and director of INSTAR Tania Bruguera, the young filmmaker José Luis Aparicio, the filmmaker and journalist Yaima Pardo, and the member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Ricardo Acosta.
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2020-2021
December 11, 2021
Closure of the II INSTAR Film Festival (2020-2021)
El II Festival de Cine INSTAR llegó a su fin. Para el cierre, convocamos a una conversación entre la directora de INSTAR Tania Bruguera, el joven cineasta José Luis Aparicio, la realizadora y periodista Yaima Pardo, y el miembro de la Academia de Arte y Ciencias Cinematográficas Ricardo Acosta.
December 09, 2021
Pájares: Talk about cinema and dissident identities.
Sexual and identity dissidences have not only been historically discriminated against in Cuban social life, but also in its cinema. But little by little they have gained a space in the national cinematography, especially from the point of view of young independent filmmakers with the desire to tell their stories.
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).
December 08, 2021
Genre cinema in Latin America and the Caribbean
The supernatural and horror in all its variants also have their place in Latin American and Caribbean cinema. Even zombies were born from a Haitian belief. In this talk, Alejandro Brugués, Jorge Molina, Alejandro Fadel, Miguel Coyula, Adrián García and José Luis Aparicio share their thoughts on the subject.
December 07, 2021
Distribution of independent Cuban films
How do Cuban independent filmmakers “move” their films? What distribution circuits do they use? Some of these filmmakers debated on this topic: Boris Prieto, Ivonne Cotorruelo, Daniela Muñoz Barroso and Maria Nela Labeque. The conversation was hosted by the philologist Sindy Rivery.
October 28, 2021
The voice of emigration in the Cuban cinema today
Migratory waves have not only marked Cuba's post-1959 history, but also its cinema. In fact, it could be said that there are stories of Cubans, told by Cubans, in many parts of the world. The stories of emigration, like emigration itself, transcend all borders and are always present in the national imaginary.
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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