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 cinematographies, especially those coming from countries ruled by dictatorial or authoritarian regimes that impose restrictions on artists. The event seeks to highlight the ever-growing dialogue between these cinematographies and to promote cultural diversity in cinema.
December 1st, 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 30th, 2023
INSTAR Festival celebrates its fourth edition in transnational format
The transnational character of the fourth edition of the INSTAR Film Festival is a way to be present in cities with a large number of Cuban exiles and at the same time generate new audiences and reflect the different circumstances that independent Cuban film production is going through.
November 30th, 2023
INSTAR calls for its IV Film Festival (2023) in seven cities around the world
"Between December 4 and 10, the fourth edition of the INSTAR Film Festival will be held in seven cities around the world with a large presence of Cuban émigrés: Barcelona, Paris, New York, Miami, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and São Paulo. In the case of Cuba, the selection of films will be available online through the Festhome platform."
November 29th, 2023
#SOSVenezuela: about ‛Ventanas', 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 29th, 2023
The film ‘Leaves of K.’ (2022) or the impregnable fragility
The identities and bodies of the 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, to dilute them into oblivion, to banish them definitively from the human condition, to decompose their humanities into unrecognizable fragments, without dignity or will.
November 28th, 2023
INSTAR Film Festival of Cuban Independent Film
The Institut d'Artivisme Hannah Arendt (INSTAR) and the Association France pour la Démocratie à Cuba (AFDC) are pleased to present the screening of Cuban films at the Maison d'Amérique Latine on December 7 and 8, 2023.
November 28th, 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 28th, 2023
Opening of the fourth edition (2023)
The INSTAR Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism (INSTAR), a collective founded by artist Tania Bruguera in 2015. The festival supports independent cinema production on an international scale, focusing on countries where art and freedom of expression is threatened. It favors works addressing difficult themes with daring aesthetics, as well as hybrid pieces exploring new paths in filmmaking.
November 27th, 2023
Emmanuel Martín, Cuban filmmaker: "'A Man Under the Influence' saved my life".
A man... will be available for Cuban audiences on the Festhome platform from December 4 to 10, always from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight. The Mexican venue of the INSTAR Festival, the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in the capital, will show the film on December 5, 6 and 7, while the Centro Cultural General San Martín in Buenos Aires has scheduled its screening on December 6.
November 26th, 2023
The propitious rebellions of Miñuca & Fernando Villaverde
Produced in 1963, at the height of the revolutionary epic, El parque is certainly far from the exultant mood that must have permeated the art of the time. Its composition evidences characteristics typical of the experimental climate of those days, but does not conceal its gaze towards a sometimes melancholic zone of the social experience.
November 27th, 2023
Tommaso Santambrogio: "Relating to history, justice and memory is fundamental for cinema"
Taxibol (2023) is a tropical concert of silence and fury that reconciles almost antagonistic ways of constructing films. Its story makes epochs collide, and dilutes temporal barriers in the filmic melting pot of memory, revenge and even psychological terror.
November 25th, 2023
‛And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil’: crónica fictiva del derribo de un tirano.
In competition at the IV INSTAR Film Festival, And How Miserable... will be available to Cuban audiences from December 4 to 10 on the online platform Festhome. And it can also be seen, in darkened theaters, by Argentine audiences (at the Centro Cultural General San Martín in Buenos Aires, Tuesday 5 and Sunday 10), Mexican (at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, Friday 8 and Sunday 10), and Catalan (at the Zumzeig Cinecooperativa in Barcelona, Wednesday 6).
November 24th, 2023
INBAL joins the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women with an extensive program
On December 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10, from Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, the Laboratorio Arte Alameda will hold the IV INSTAR Film Festival (Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism), within the framework of the exhibition Pedro Lasch: Entre líneas/Between the lines; and, in collaboration with the Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera, on Saturday, December 9, from 11:00 to 21:00, will present the Tercer Maratón Ónix de Música Contemporánea, under the general coordination and curatorship of Alejandro Escuer.
November 24th, 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 it happens in the previous Terranova.
November 22nd, 2023
For whom does the bell toll in ‘Mafifa’ (2021)?
Mafifa is also one of these channels of mysterious nature and inapprehensible symbolic richness through which the film seeks access to a third area much more closely related to ¿Qué remedio?...: the anthropological inquiry into the Santiago conga and its paroxysmal, cathartic, tragic strata.
November 20th, 2023
The INSTAR Film Festival brings independent Cuban cinema to 8 countries
The festival, which will take place from December 4 to 10 in cinemas and cultural centers in Barcelona, Paris, Miami, New York, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, can be viewed from Cuba online through the Festhome platform. This edition of the event will be...
November 15, 2023
IV INSTAR Film Festival: Aesthetic inventiveness and political critique on the transnational screen
In particular, the conjunction of works by Cuban filmmakers reflects a creative community in the diaspora that has expanded in time and space; whose works, in addition to producing some of the most suggestive stylistic and thematic explorations of the moment, give prestige to the cinema of our country in the most distinguished events in the world.
November 15, 2023
The IV INSTAR Film Festival, the great transnational node of independent Cuban cinema, is coming soon
El IV Festival de Cine INSTAR, auspiciado por el Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, se desarrollará entre el 4 y el 10 de diciembre, según anunciaron este viernes los organizadores. “En caso de emergencia, rompe el cristal”, advierte el slogan.
November 10, 2023
Six independent Cuban film projects receive the PM Awards 2023 of the International Institute of Artivism “Hannah Arendt”
“Beyond the recognition of Cuban filmmakers, the growing participation in this year's 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.”
October 27, 2023
Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism invites to its IV Film Festival: an independent commitment to aesthetic daring and generic hybridity
Independent cinema, and especially Cuban cinema, will once again have a diverse, avant-garde space between December 4 and 10 this year, when the IV INSTAR Film Festival, organized annually by the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism, will be held. This June 26, this Cuban civil society organization released a call for entries in which it privileges "audiovisuals with daring aesthetic and narrative approaches…”
June 27th, 2023
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