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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 24, 2023
“And how miserable is the home of evil”: fictional chronicle of the overthrow…
In competition at the IV INSTAR Film Festival, And How Miserable… will be available to Cuban audiences from December 4 to 10 on the Festhome online platform. It can also be seen, in dark rooms, by Argentine audiences (at the Centro Cultural General San Martín in Buenos Aires, on Tuesday 5 and 10...
November 24, 2023
With extensive programming, INBAL joins the International Day of…
On December 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Laboratorio Arte Alameda will host the IV INSTAR Film Festival (Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism), within the framework of the exhibition Pedro Lasch: Entre línea/Between the lines; and, in collaboration with the Coordination…
November 22, 2023
‘Abyssal’ or the escape from the concrete
Abisal (Alejandro Alonso, 2021) is a chronicle about the eternal end, about the melancholic beauty of decomposition and the impressive precipitation of wounded leviathans into the mouth of Hell, piece by piece. Just as in the previous Terranova (2020) –co-directed with the Spaniard Alejandro Pérez– with the…
November 20, 2023
For whom does the bell toll in ‘Mafifa’ (2021)?
Mafifa is also one of those channels of mysterious nature and elusive symbolic wealth through which the film seeks to access a third area much more closely related to ¿Qué remedio?…: the anthropological investigation into the Santiago conga and its paroxysmal, cathartic, tragic strata…
November 15, 2023
The INSTAR Film Festival brings independent Cuban cinema to 8 countries
The fourth edition of the INSTAR Film Festival announced an ambitious program that will bring more than a dozen titles of independent Cuban audiovisuals to eight important cities around the world, and that on this occasion will focus on the work of exiled artists. The festival, which will take place between the 4th and...
November 15, 2023
IV INSTAR Film Festival: aesthetic inventiveness and political criticism on screen
In particular, the combination of works by Cuban filmmakers reflects a creative community in the diaspora that has expanded in time and space; whose works, in addition to providing some of the most suggestive stylistic and thematic explorations of the moment, today give prestige to our country's cinema...
November 10, 2023
The IV INSTAR Film Festival is coming, the great transnational node of Cuban cinema
The IV INSTAR Film Festival (2023), sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Artivism, will take place from December 4 to 10, the organizers announced on Friday. “In case of emergency, break the glass,” warns the slogan of the event on this occasion. With transnational venues spread across…
October 27, 2023
Six Cuban independent film projects, proudly received the 2023 PM Awards
“Beyond the recognition of Cuban filmmakers, the growing participation in this call for the PM Awards underlines the importance of expanding [the] support for their work, often carried out in extremely precarious conditions and without institutional support from their country of origin.”
June 27, 2023
Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism invites you to its IV Film Festival: a bet…
Independent cinema, and especially Cuban cinema, will once again have a multiple, avant-garde space between December 4 and 10 this year, when the IV INSTAR Film Festival is held, sponsored annually by the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism. This June 26, this civil society organization will host the 4th INSTAR...
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