AREQUIPA, Peru – With 83 works in the competition, the 18th edition of the Gibara International Film Festival in Holguín, affiliated with the state-run Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC), concluded this weekend.
The official page Radio Cadena Agramonte provides details on this year’s winners and featured works. contestcreated in 2003 by the late film director Humberto Solás (1941-2008), aims to stimulate the authors of low-budget films.
The tape The wild woman triumphed again, winning the Lucía Award for best fiction feature film. The closing ceremony took place at the Jibá Cinema, where in addition to Alán González’s 2023 film, it also won the award Lapse (Brazil, 2023), by Caroline Cavalcanti, as best fiction short film.
Meanwhile, The oceans are the real continents (Cuba-Italy, 2023), by Tommaso Santambrogio, previously crowned best fiction feature film with the collateral award of the Cuban Association of Cinematographic Press, received a special award.
Special mention received If ever (Cuba, 2023), by Annia Quesada Milord; Without papers (Canada, 2023), by Christian de la Cortina; and Longing (Cuba-Portugal, 2023), by Sandra Ramy, Sandra Lopes, Inti Herrera and X Alfonso.
The Documentary and Animation Jury awarded as best documentary to A home without a closet (Spain-Argentina, 2023), by Eduardo Cubillo; while the award for best animation went to Poppies at my window (Colombia, 2023), by Grettel Melissa Quintana.
Also in that section they were mentioned Jivaro (Documentary short film, Cuba, 2023), by Osmanys Sánchez Arañó; Assum Preto, A cry from the sidelines (Documentary short film, Brazil, 2023), by Cícero Fraga; and Glass ceiling (Animated short film, Argentina, 2022), by Liliana Romero.
This year, the Gibara International Film Festival resumed Cine en Construcción, which awarded this evening Havana Social Club Boxing (Documentary feature film in development, Italy-Spain-Cuba), by Cristiano Regina.
He also received a mention The day of collection (Fiction short film in development, Cuba), by Luis Lago; and Reportage (Fiction feature film in development, Mexico), by Nicolás Gutiérrez Wenhammar.
For his part, Sergio Benvenuto, director of the festival, announced at the evening that from 2025 the event It will be called the Gibara International Low-income Film Festival, in accordance with the founding bases set out by Humberto Solas in it Manifesto of poor cinemaHe also said that it will be held again in April, as in the first editions.
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