The International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, regional in nature, overflows once again with its universal vocation, and for this reason it will include conferences, special presentations, retrospectives of the most important movies from around the world, said Cuban filmmaker Alfredo Guevara while inaugurating the 32nd edition of Havana’s International Festival of New Latin American Cinema at the Karl Marx Theater.
The Vice-president of the Cuban councils of State and Ministers, Esteban Lazo attended the inaugural ceremony along with Culture Minister Abel Prieto and renowned intellectual Roberto Fernandez Retamar, as well as important Latin American filmmakers, actors and actresses, and the Nobel Literature Prize winner and friend of Cuba Gabriel García Márquez.

Prize-winning musician Hernán López-Nussa on the piano, Yandy Martinez on the bass, and Enrique Pla on the drums, offered participants at the Karl Marx a special and memorable performance, with jazz pieces made in Cuba.

The International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema paid special tribute to the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, that other insurrection that, with arms and thoughts, represented a renewal and allowed the Mexican people to revitalize and modernize their weapons for struggle. That was the main reason behind the screening of “Revolution” to inaugurate the event, a collective project of Mexican filmmakers that involved ten of the youngest and most brilliant talents of the fraternal nation.

”Revolution” includes 10 shorts, in which the youngest creators of Mexican cinema offer their personal view a century after that revolutionary legacy, which reaffirms and confirms the identity and variety of a country with a history that is a symbol for all Latin Americans.

Havana’s International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema includes the showing of more than 500 films in competition.

Translated by Daysi Olano

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