SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- This Thursday, September 19, a new museum will be inaugurated in Cuba Russian film show which will run until September 22; it is a “unique opportunity,” praised the official press, referring to the cultural activity that is taking place amid greater closeness between the regimes in Havana and the Kremlin.
The day will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Mosfilm Studios, he said. Rebel Radio, and the opening screening is reserved for the film Underground Moscowwhich will be shown at the Chaplin Cinema.
The film was also screened at the Céspedes cinema in Bayamo, another of the venues for the exhibition, along with Santiago de Cuba, Cienfuegos and Santa Clara.
In the city of Granma, during the opening activity, they held discussions with the “Russian-speaking community” and exhibited a bibliographic sample of “Russian Literature for All Times.”
From Thursday to Sunday, movies will be shown Andrei Rubliov, Stalker and Solaris, Vladivostok, The White Tiger, House for rent with all the inconveniences and The road to Berlin.
Russian Ambassador to Cuba Viktor Koronelli said at a press conference that this edition of the exhibition seeks to “strengthen cultural ties between Cuba and Russia.”
“We arrived at this week, a few days after Mosfilm cinemaa joint co-production that was also mentioned. There are two films in the pipeline, two based on Cuban scripts, Theophilus and another film dedicated to the joint space flight of Romanenko and Tamayo Méndez and another film, according to the Russian script, called Guantanamera. That is why we have several projects,” he said.
Alexis Triana, President of the Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC), along with other officials, traveled last week to Moscow to seek “support” from Russian television to produce films on the Island and show them on streaming platforms. Russia Cuban creations.
The president of ICAIC, in various Facebook posts where he recorded his journey, showed his work day in which they visited the studios of the Russian television Mosfilm, where they met with Svetlana Pileva, deputy general director, to talk about the probability of “receiving support” for the film. Theophilusby Alejandro Gil, which will go into production soon.
They also attended the headquarters and broadcast room of the RT en Español agency, where they invited its director, Victoria Vorontsova, to present two of her documentaries at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema and to co-produce the documentary with Cubacine ICAIC Go up to heavenby Jorge Fuentes.
Together with the directors of Soyuzmultfilm, Boris Mashkovtsev and Maiya Nobokrechenova, they discussed the possibility of holding workshops and master classes on cartooning in November, during the Days of Russian Spiritual Culture.
On the other hand, and without missing an opportunity, they debated with the general director of BRICS TV, Janna Tolstikova, “about alliances mutual and the real possibilities to disseminate our film heritage and today’s Cuban documentaries and films on their digital platforms.”
