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The jury of the IV INSTAR Film Festival announces the winning work of the Nicolás Guillén Landrián Prize, which is awarded to the film that best addresses, from cinematographic language, a taboo topic in its corresponding society. Closing of the event with the presence of its Executive Director and its Artistic Director.
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2023
December 10, 2023
Awards and Closing
IV INSTAR
Film Festival
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.
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 07, 2023
Waste, bells and memories of the USSR (Conversation)
A conversation with filmmakers Carla Valdés León (Los puros, 2021), Daniela Muñoz Barroso (Mafifa, 2021) and Alejandro Alonso (Abisal, 2021) about their most recent cinematographic works, spaces for collaboration and production beyond ICAIC, and the cancellation of the 2020 Youth Exhibition.
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 04, 2023
Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela: the fight against...
Filmmakers Fernando Fraguela (Cuba), Gloria Carrión (Nicaragua), and Jhon Ciavaldini (Venezuela) talk with the Cuban researcher Hilda Landrove about their works, their aesthetic outlook and the narrative decisions they have made in the face of a theme that unites them: the struggle against authoritarianism.
December 03, 2023
Photos of the collapse: Cuban cinema and uncertainty
Inauguration of the IV INSTAR Film Festival at the CCCB in Barcelona, with “The photos of the collapse: Cuban cinema and uncertainty”, a lecture given by Cuban film critic and journalist Dean Luis Reyes: From where does Cuban cinema speak today? For whom does it speak? What directions does it imagine for itself?
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