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Three women who dream and make a country...
Fernando Fraguela makes one thing clear: Women Who Dream of a Country (2022) is a film that is made for the present, yes, but above all for the future. Women Who Dream of a Country, with testimonies from activist Daniela Rojo, poet Katherine Bisquet, and professor and art historian Anamely Ramos, is an attempt…
IV INSTAR Film Festival awards the documentaries...
The independent documentary Mafifa (2021), by Daniela Muñoz Barroso, was awarded along with La opción cero (2020), by Marcel Beltrán, at the IV edition of the INSTAR Film Festival that took place last week in seven cities on two continents, and in Cuba virtually. Mafifa, which makes a surprising…
Mafifa
The INSTAR Festival-winning film Mafifa premiered at IDFA in Amsterdam in 2021, was screened at the Havana Film Festival in 2022, and won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. In it, Daniela Muñoz Barroso attempts to construct a portrait of the title character, a woman of a more...
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December 09, 2023
The Holy Family. Lineages and legacies at the IV INSTAR Film Festival.
The authors of a significant number of films that made up the official selection of the IV INSTAR Film Festival assume the family as a great device to understand themselves as cultural, historical, emotional, political, and social subjects. They are children of the dreams that others dreamed…
December 08, 2023
The portrait of Mafifa. Conversation with filmmaker Daniela Muñoz Barroso
Mafifa and Daniela have memory in common. The former still runs the risk of not being part of the historical narrative; the latter uses memory to understand the world. This is one of the Ariadne's threads that unites them and that allowed them to meet in that labyrinth that was the filming, the construction of the…
December 07, 2023
Women dreaming a nation
Women Who Dream of a Country (2022), the most recent documentary by Cuban filmmaker Fernando Fraguela, is presented as part of the programming of the IV INSTAR, a film festival organized by the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism, founded and directed by Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera.
December 07, 2023
Alejandro Alonso's 'Home' and ‘The Son of the Dream': the ground our cinema treads on
Memory is essential to narrate dreams, to create the nation. The homeland is sometimes as generous with its children as a mother; that is why it is important that these postcards are not given away, that they do not run the risk of falling into other hands, into another story… Postcards are the material link between…
December 06, 2023
Films from the INSTAR Film Festival available to watch for free from Cuba
The films being recently screened at the IV Film Festival organized by the Hannah Arendt International Institute of Artivism (Instar) this 2023, can be viewed from Cuba for free through the FesthomeTV application, a service thats available for sending short and feature films over the Internet.
December 06, 2023
As much light as it takes. IV INSTAR Film Festival
Beyond the fact that the reception of independent productions is usually complicated, since they live in an area of almost residual distribution, Instar's films suffer extra pressure due to the explicit content of the message they spread. Pressure that is understandable, as has been happening in recent years...
December 06, 2023
Carla Valdés León: “All the characters and stories have a tragic background”
Carla Valdés León is competing in the fourth edition of the INSTAR Film Festival with her film Los puros (2021), available to the Cuban public from this Monday, December 4th to December 10th, through the Festhome online platform. It can also be seen from this Tuesday to Thursday at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda…
December 05, 2023
Special screening of the Cuban film ‘Corazón azul’ in Paris, France (2023)
The filmaker Miguel Coyula is a magnificent creator of forms, combining avant-garde experimentation with a love of popular genres. Corazón azul is part science fiction, part thriller, and also borrows from animation. This hybridity produces constant surprises and new sensations.
December 04, 2023
Marcel Beltrán talks about cosmic music, and the zero at the end of the road
The feature-length documentary La opción cero (2020), by Marcel Beltrán, will open the IV INSTAR Film Festival, with its screening at the Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona (CCCB) this Monday, December 4. The event's journey begins with a film about crossings, transhumances, exoduses and...
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