FesthomeTV, as stated on its website, “is an online short and feature film submission service” and “replaces the already obsolete mail submission system, adapting to new Internet technologies and offering at the same time the highest quality selection of all online submission platforms.”

The IV Instar Film Festival, which ends on December 10, has been attacked by the Cuban regime's propaganda media and some cultural officials.

A text published in La Jiribilla defames the event and the filmmaker Eliecer Jiménez Almeida. 

The festival is also defined as a “subversive project that pretends to be the exclusive domain of Cuban fighters against totalitarianism, and which, in reality, is financed by the United States intelligence agencies and has been organized by Tania Bruguera.”

Bruguera and Jiménez Almeida were also defamed by the Minister of Culture, Alpidio Alonso, in his profile of X.  

“In the name of what freedom, other than the freedom to destroy the Revolution, can we be asked to come to an understanding with those who are part of this new operation paid for by the CIA against the collective project of the Cuban people? What patriot could call counterrevolutionary cinema our own?” wrote Alonso.

Other historical censors and officials of the regime such as Abel Prieto and Rogelio Polanco also attacked the Instar festival.