The exhibition will show winning materials from the last editions of FIC Gibara 2018 and 2019 by selecting five short films of different themes and genres. The idea is to show the contemporary Cuban landscape.
The Gibara-based Festival, a small town on the northern coast of the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, was created in 2003 by the late film director Humberto Solás (1941-2008), one of the emblematic figures of the island's cinematography, recognized for its films Manuela, Lucia, A man of success and Honey for Ochún.
Originally born with the name of the International Festival of Poor Film, the event was conceived by Solás with the aim of stimulating the authors of low-budget films - less than $300,000 - and away from cultural elitism but with high aesthetic and ethical rigor. In the update, and under the new name of Gibara International Film Festival, it is directed by actor Jorge Perugoría.
Cuba
Winner of the Best Documentary Film Award in FIC Gibara 2019
Address: Luis Alejandro Yero
Script: Luis Alejandro Yero, Natalia Medina, Juliano Castro, Bianca Martins, Daniela Fung-Macchi
Photography: Natalia Medina
Assembly: Juliano Castro
Sound: Bianca Martins, Daniela Fung-Macchi
Overview
At the train station a man murmuring Bible verses, while hundreds of young people dance in a bunker. A radio station transmits that Havana has fallen. Life breaks out on a night of death.
Cuba
Special mention of the FIC Gibara Documentary Short Jury 2018.
Address: Claudia Claremi
Production: Claudia Claremi
Script: Claudia Claremi
Photography: Claudia Claremi
Assembly: Claudia Claremi
Sound: Maria del Mar Rosario, Nathan Armstrong and Vitor Coroa
Overview
Portrait of the mountain of the Sierra Maestra where José Manuel explains to his granddaughter Malena his vision of the world through the deep knowledge of the secrets of nature. He hopes that Malena will inherit the knowledge he in turn obtained from the father and become a great mountain tree.
Cuba
Address: Yemelí Cruz and Adanoe Lima
Production: Andrea Fabiani, Aramís Acosta
Script: Yemelí Cruz and Adanoe Lima
Photography: Mayrelis Aldama, Alejandro Rodríguez
Assembly: Liliana Hernández
Sound: Camilo Ferrera.
Overview
When the loss of a king's son is compared to the loss of a shepherd's son, the obvious differences impact as much as the painful similarities.
Cuba, USA
Address: Carlos Barba Salva
Production: Juan Manuel Gómez, Giancarlo Díaz, Abel Álvarez
Script: Carlos Barba.
Photography: Carlos Rafael Solís
Assembly: Christian Sookiasian.
Sound: Valeria Mancheva.
Overview
Hilda is a Cuban immigrant who takes care of her sick father in the habanero neighborhood of Vedado. His actions mean a daily mimicality that crashes it and saddens it on a day that seems to last more than 24 hours.
Cuba
Address: Victor Alfonso.
Production: Claudia Ruíz
Script: Victor Alfonso.
Photography: Ariel Navarro
Assembly: Joel P. Ramírez
Sound: Juan Carlos Martínez.
Overview
Hilda is a Cuban immigrant who takes care of her sick father in the habanero neighborhood of Vedado. His actions mean a daily mimicality that crashes and saddens her on a day that seems to last more than 24 hours
A scandalous old woman asks three children to confess how her chicken was killed.
House of Culture. Pz. de Austria, s / n. 29631. Honey Arroyo. Benalmádena.
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