*The event is conceived as a community proposal and a rigorous event
*The Lucia de Honor 2025 Award will be given to the actress Veronica Lynn
*The Film Festival celebrates its 19th edition with a wide and innovative program
*The Lucia de Honor 2025 Award will be given to the actress Veronica Lynn
*The Film Festival celebrates its 19th edition with a wide and innovative program
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00:00At the 19th Ibarra International Pool Film Festival will be held in Cuba from April 15th to the 19th
00:13with the participation of more than 500 works from 30 countries with a representation covering all continents.
00:19Our colleague Jordanis Rodriguez with the information.
00:22According to history, Admiral Christopher Columbus, in his transit through these lands of America,
00:33after observing the enigmatic landscape of the waters of this bay,
00:36wrote in his logbook on October 29th, 1492, about the natural beauty of the area and the fact that the site has something mystical.
00:43It is said that even Isadora Duncan, the great dancer, was there, and even other personalities who have visited the place.
00:52But everyone talks about the magic of the town, of its people, and it is something that is much appreciated,
00:57turning the city not only during those days in the capital of cinema in Cuba, but in the capital of the arts.
01:09The film event, which begins on April 15th, was conceived along two main lines by filmmaker and founder Umberto Salas.
01:16The first from a dimension that is rare in the culture of the country, as a community proposal,
01:20and the other from the informality and relaxation that generates, although it sounds contradictory,
01:25a very rigorous event, a very complex staging, rich in multiculturalism.
01:31We are very happy with the festival, which in addition to Luciano Castillo will give an honorary Lucia Award to Veronica Lynn,
01:40that great Cuban actress who is going to come to Jabara.
01:43And also, because it is a festival that takes the original name again, it is something that we have designed little by little.
01:49At a time when we have been growing for two years in cinema under construction,
01:53and obviously the idea of awards with production support.
01:57In this case, cinema under construction has Cherubusco Studios and Horizonte,
02:01an Italian entity, and Cherubusco Studios that are Mexican, they are really important.
02:06We have a project that started last year, which is the Poor Cinema Factory,
02:10which was already a way of insinuating the name.
02:13The factory is a support to national cinema, but in the eastern region.
02:21The festival will present the Lucia de Honor 2025 Award to the Gypsy House Project,
02:28film critic Luciano Castillo, and National Theatre Award winner Veronica Lynn.
02:32The Lucia of Honor is a recognition that I am very grateful for,
02:38which is a kind of crowning achievement of my work on the preservation of the national film heritage,
02:43and its safeguarding, that is, to look for alliances and alternatives to restore this heritage that is so important
02:48because it is the memory of the country, and we must fight all the time to ensure it for present and future generations.
02:54The Root of the Olive, by Bolivian director Sergio Aguino Vieira, is one of the works in competition.
03:06This is a co-production of the Chosky Audiovisual Laboratory and resume in Latino American The Tercer Mundo
03:12with the collaboration of Al Mayadeen in Spanish, which tells the story of five Palestinians in Cuba.
03:18For us it is an honor to be in the official selection competing as a documentary at the International Festival of Poor Cinema in Jabara.
03:33Because the spaces for this type of cinema are increasingly limited,
03:36just remember that Netflix has removed all Palestinian films from its schedule.
03:40When we talk about censorship we have to look at those big hegemonic media.
03:43We have to look at social networks and we must realize that the message that can elevate the Palestinian spirit
03:53is increasingly limited.
04:02Founded by the renowned Cuban filmmaker Humberto Salas,
04:05the Jabara International Poor Film Festival arrives in its 19th edition
04:09with a wide and innovative program that includes film sections to new theoretical events.