The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, to be held from January 27 to February 4, will screen 15 Cuban films as part of the Cuba en Corto 2023 exhibition.
The selected works “attest to the richness, dynamism and diversity of the insular cinematographic panorama”, according to aim the platform Iroko.
The 2023 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival will take place in France from 27 Jan-4 Feb.
New & returning cinephiles can expect a selection of over 400 short films from around the globe.
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Cuba en Corto 2023 “displays the various paths, aesthetic and productive, that our cinema is currently going through” and is made up of “independent films, student films and works produced with state support.”
Among the films included are sovereign (dir. Wara), Pardino d’oro at the most recent Locarno Festival; The sea is also yours (dir. Michelle Coelho), selected in Winterthur and Rotterdam, as well as Tundra (dir. José Luis Aparicio), screened at Sundance and Locarno.
In the same way they appear between two islands (dir. Hideki Nakazaki), premiered in Mar del Plata and the only Cuban film that competes at the Festival according to the source. The rest of the shorts presented begin their international tour.
In it, fiction and film-essay, animation, the archive and the strictly documentary are mixed, according to the note.
The actions of the stand are complemented by a market projection that will take place on Tuesday, January 31 at 11 am at the Georges-Conchon Theatre.
Five of the films in the catalog will be on the big screen: Four Holes (dir. Daniela Muñoz Barroso ), Blank (dir. Daniel Santoyo), Blue (dir. Violena Ampudia), the other island (directed by José Manuel García Casado) and Santos (directed by Jazz Martínez-Gamboa).
The Cuban presence in the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival Market represents a milestone of vital importance for the future and health of the island’s cinema, says Iroko’s note.
“The visibility that these works will have, as well as the direct contact that can be established with various producers, festivals, distributors and television stations, are compelling reasons that strengthen the cultural and industrial value of the initiative, whose need to be maintained over time, in a systematic and coordinated way, is beyond any doubt”.
The exhibition is sponsored by the French Embassy, through its Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects (FSPI), and the joint work of entities such as Iroko and the Havana Film Festival.
The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival “has played a decisive role in the development of our cinema since the beginning of the last decade,” says this source.
Cuba was present in a “first and exciting foray” during the 2019 edition of a festival defined as the most important in the world.
