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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 04, 2023
Interview with José Luis Aparicio, curator of the IV edition of the INSTAR Film Festival.
From December 5 to 10, under the coordination of filmmaker Ricardo Figueredo, CADAL (Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America) presents at the Manuel Antín Hall of the San Martín Cultural Center in the city of Buenos Aires the IV film series of the Hannah Arendt Institute, directed by...
December 04, 2023
‛Agwe': waiting as a destination
In Haitian vodou, Agwe is the patron saint of fishermen. That is the name François chooses for his son when he is about to leave for the United States in a rather precarious boat loaded with people. Mirlande watches it sail away in the hope of seeing her companion soon; with the illusion that, in a short time, the three...
December 03, 2023
The IV INSTAR Film Festival (2023) as a “space of audiovisual resistance”
Let's start at the beginning. What is known today as the INSTAR Film Festival, which will reach its fourth edition between December 4 and 10, had its beginning, as truth and power, in a retrospective curated by Cuban critic Dean Luis Reyes at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition...
December 03, 2023
Taxibol
In Taxibol Santambrogio opens a series of questions in a postcolonial tone about the relationship between memory, the forms of obliteration and persistence of the dictatorial past in the Philippines and Cuba, and cinema as a critical device capable of going beyond itself to combat injustices, making visible the relations...
December 03, 2023
Veritas
In Veritas, the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion during the Cold War is told through the testimonies of some of its protagonists from the invading side. Thus, sixty years later, and from exile, the men who survived the attempt to overthrow the very early state of affairs established with the revolution face a series of...
December 02, 2023
‘Calls from Moscow’(2023)… to a disconnected line in Havana, Cuba
This week, filmmaker Luis Alejandro Yero denounced on social networks the censorship of his film Llamadas desde Moscú (2023) by Cuban cultural authorities, who excluded it -after having been admitted by the selection committee, according to what the filmmaker learned unofficially- from...
December 01, 2023
INSTAR Festival kicks off, exploring new independent Cuban cinema
The fourth edition of the INSTAR Film Festival will take place from December 4-10, 2023 at venues in Barcelona, Paris, New York, Miami, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and São Paulo. The festival will focus on the transnational character of new Cuban cinema, exploring its interaction with diverse...
November 30, 2023
Documenting the Feminine: Women Directors at the IV INSTAR Film Festival
The IV INSTAR Film Festival arrives from December 4 to 10 with a film curatorship in which, although we can speak of interconnected themes and aesthetics in a general sense, it is important to highlight the great mosaic of female characters created and recreated by the directors invited to compete.
November 30, 2023
INSTAR Festival celebrates its fourth edition in transnational format
Organized by the Hannah Arendt International Institute of Artivism (INSTAR), the festival will take place from December 4 to 10, for the first time in multiple venues, on-site and virtual, in Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and Europe. According to LatAm cinema, the festival's artistic director...
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