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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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November 29, 2023
INSTAR calls for its IV Film Festival (2023) in seven cities around the world
The fourth edition of the INSTAR Film Festival will take place from December 4 to 10. It is an event held in seven cities around the world with a large presence of Cuban emigrants: Barcelona, Paris, New York, Miami, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and São Paulo. In the case of Cuba, films can be watched online through a dedicated platform...
November 29, 2023
#SOSVenezuela: about “Windows”, a documentary by Jhon Ciavaldini
The film Windows ties a familiar experience to the social sphere, the author's thoughts to the collective memory of the country. That is one of its virtues. The discursive landscape depends on the director's voice, immersed in that Venezuela of civic unrest and police violence, where, of course, emigrating is another sign of the crisis.
November 28, 2023
The film ‘Leaves of K.’ (2022) or the impregnable fragility
The identities and bodies of Nicaraguan women that filmmaker Gloria Carrión Fonseca summarizes in the collective protagonist of her film Hojas de K. (2022) have also been victims of fierce attempts to suppress them, dilute them into oblivion, banish them permanently from the human condition, decompose their humanities into unrecognizable...
November 28, 2023
INSTAR Festival of independent Cuban cinema
The Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism (INSTAR) and the French Association for Democracy in Cuba (AFDC) are pleased to present the screening of Cuban films this year (2023), at the Maison d’Amérique Latine on December 7 and 8, 2023. The screenings will be followed by a debate with the…
November 28, 2023
IV INSTAR Film Festival: Three Perspectives on the Cuban Migratory Crisis
On the eve of the IV INSTAR Film Festival, I would like to draw attention to some of the views that its program takes on emigration. Whether due to disagreements with the political power or for economic reasons, Cuba has experienced, since 1959 until today, successive waves of migration.
November 27, 2023
Opening of the fourth edition (2023)
The INSTAR Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Artivism (INSTAR), a collective founded by artist Tania Bruguera in 2015. The festival supports independent film production on an international scale, focusing on countries where art and freedom of expression are at the forefront.
November 27, 2023
The propitious rebellions of Miñuca & Fernando Villaverde
Created in 1963, at the height of the revolutionary epic, The Park certainly appears far removed from the exultant spirit that was to permeate the art of the time. Its composition shows characteristics of the experimental climate of those days, but it does not hide its gaze towards a zone…
November 26, 2023
Emmanuel Martín, filmmaker: “‘A man under his influence’ saved my life”
Un hombre… will be available to Cuban audiences on the Festhome platform, from December 4 to 10, always from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The Mexican headquarters of the INSTAR Festival, the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in the capital, will exhibit the film on December 5, 6 and 7, while the Centro Cultural General San Martín...
November 25, 2023
Tommaso Santambrogio: “Relating to history, justice…”
Taxibol (2023) is a tropical concert of silence and fury that reconciles almost antagonistic ways of constructing films. Its story makes eras collide, and dilutes temporal barriers in the cinematic crucible of memory, revenge and even psychological terror. Filmed in Cuba by Italian filmmaker Tommaso…
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