The French city of Montpellier will host a Cuban film festival starting this Thursday, reports Prensa Latina.
The event has various proposals, says the halfall framed in the 2023 edition of the Weeks of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Founded in 2001, the Montpellier Cuba Solidarité association took advantage of the day that the French Government dedicates annually to the region. Now it will take place from May 25 to June 10 and will promote rapprochement with the nation, said its president, Jean-Michel Gramond.
According to Gramond, thanks to the good relations with the Utopia cinema, in the southern city, it will be possible to show Cuban films.
The event will open with the screening of the documentary Buena Vista Social Club (1999), by the award-winning German director Wim Wenders.
The material includes the process of recording the CD Buena Vista Social Club for the celebrated traditional music project of the same name, a Grammy Award-winning album.
The event also programmed the feature films guantanamera (1995), by Juan Carlos Tabío and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; I am Cuban (1964), by Mikhail Kalatozov; The death of a bureaucrat (1966), by Tomás Gutierrez Alea; Conduct (2014), by Ernesto Daranas; and Bitter Coffee (2012), by Rigoberto Jiménez.
Last March, the Montpellier Cuba Solidarité association celebrated the 30th anniversary of Televisión Serrana, a project located in the Sierra Maestra that approaches Cuban peasants, particularly from the community of origin, through life stories, culture , traditions and identity.
Montpellier Cuba Solidarité has the support of the local authorities, in particular the Montpellier City Council. They organize cultural activities around cinema and painting.
