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publicado el 10/06/2022 04:17 pm

Proposals of the French Film Festival

A selection of 23 films from the Gallic country's film production reserves the 23rd edition of the French Film Festival, which will take place from June 15 to 30 in the capital's cinemas.

Regarding the planned programming for lovers of French cinema and the most curious spectators, Patrice Paoli, French ambassador to Cuba, stressed that "the Cuban public will receive a sample that ponders the values ​​of French film production always marked by a particular aesthetic and great sensitivity. It is a range of novel films, both in their content and forms of artistic expression, or with emblematic films that have set standards within the visual universe and provide solidity to the history of our cinema.

Juventud Rebelde reports that the program includes Make me fly (2021), by director Christophe Barratier -one of the founders of this Cuban event with French cinema, together with Nouradine Essadi-, will mark the beginning of this festival that with the support of the Cinematheque of Cuba, the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic) and the French embassy in the Caribbean nation, will cover all the theaters of the 23rd street cinema circuit, the Acapulco cinema, room 1 of the Multicine Infanta and for the first time, the Alfredo Guevara room of the San Gerónimo School in Havana.

A retrospective exhibition dedicated to the Greek filmmaker, nationalized French, Costa-Gavras, will be screened in that area of ​​the historic center of Havana. Los rails del Crimen (1965), La confession (1970) and El capital (2012), are some of the works by the European director that will also be shown at cinemas 23 and 12 and La Rampa, in a tribute that will also serve to remember the Performances by Jacques Perrin.

Other proposals will cover more recent stages of French film production, such as the documentaries The Trial Against Mandela and the Others (2018) and Poets from Heaven (2019); the animated film Tiny. The Valley of the Lost Ants (2013), as well as a total of 14 fiction films, including Specials (2019), De Gaulle (2020) and Goodbye, Idiots (2020), the latter deserving of seven César awards, granted by the French Film Academy, in sections such as best film and direction.

Some of the exponents of the French filmography will attend the meeting with the viewers of the Greater Antilles in the Havana movie theaters. This is the case of the filmmakers Nouredine Essadi, Christophe Barratier, Emilio Maillé, as well as the actor Victor Belmondo, grandson of the famous Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died in 2021.

«This festival, one of the oldest in the Cinematheque programme, deeply rooted in popular taste, has been growing in parallel with the way in which French cinema is being renewed. There are many debuting filmmakers, with a great presence of women behind the camera and this is a very eclectic selection in terms of genres, styles, personalities”, commented Luciano Castillo, director of the Cinematheque of Cuba.

This new edition of the French Film Festival in Cuba comes as a new opportunity to consolidate cultural ties between the Greater Antilles and the French nation. Regarding this cultural work, the French embassy announced the approval of a cultural fund for the promotion and support of the Cuban film industry.

In addition, the organizers of the appointment with the French seventh art specified that the tickets are already on sale at the box offices of the cinemas, as well as the passports that consist of ten tickets will have a price of 25 CUP, concludes this medium.

 

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