The International School of Film and Television (EICTV) of Cuba began this 2025 in style: it premiered a short film at the Sundance Festival and send two materials that will have their premier in the Berlinale.
The short documentary I miss you forgive He had its continental premiere at the Sundance Festival, which closed its 41st edition on February 2 at its headquarters in Park City, Utah, United States, the portal Latamcinema.com.
Directed by the Brazilian Manu Zilveti and produced by Cuban Cynthia Deus Fagundo, the short portrays the nostalgia of a group of young women at the Batalla del Jigüe Pre -University School, also located in an area surrounding the town of San Antonio de los Baños, in the province of Artemis.
Result of an academic work of the students of the regular course of the EICTV, the short one participated in the Nonfiction Short Films section after its world premiere in Kasseller Docfest, Germany, in November, referred to the specialized medium on the big Latinocaribeña screen.
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EICTV at the Berlin Festival
On the other hand, two short films will have their world premiere in the 75th Berlinale, which will take place between February 13 and 23 in the German capital.
Written and directed by the Brazilians Luiza Calagian and Rosa Caldeira, Anba dlo It will participate in Berlinale Shorts.
The fiction short film tells the story of a Haitian immigrant biologist in Cuba that manages to connect with its territory through the voices of the forest.
The film is a production of the Brazilians Usana Films, Malaka Films and Mata Daddida Films with the Haitian Kinolakay in co -production with the EICTV and a team of graduates of generation 29, from Brazil and Haiti.
Meanwhile, in Generation Kplus, Berlinale section dedicated to films that reflect the children and youth world, participate The step, Roberto Tarazona, a documentary short film starring two children who lose innocence when, after discovering that cattle are disappearing, they face a cruel reality.
Graduated in 2023 of the EICTV alternative film mastery, in 2024 Tarazona returned to join the Documentary Film Department of the Cuban institution.
This short film is produced entirely by EICTV, which also carries international sales, said Latam Cinema.
In addition to these three premieres, the short films of the Cuban school stand out in other spaces of great media stuck such as IDFA, acronym in English of the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, with the premiere of “It will be immortal who deserves to be” by Brazilian Nay Mendl .
For its part, Visions Du Réel, from Switzerland and one of the main documentary display circuits in Europe, plans the premiere of “Necrological Service for you” of the Spanish-Mexican María Salafranca, winner of the Best Short Documentary Prize in Chicago Film Festival with Black Shadow.
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An ecumenical school
“More than 300 active professionals in the industry, recognized internationally, visit us each course to teach theoretical and practical workshops,” Cinema Susana Molina, general director of the EICTV, told Latam Cinema Susana Susana Susana Susana, EICTV.
“As a producer and training institution, the EICTV has perfected a complete monitoring program for its students: from the presentation of ideas and project development to the filming, postproduction and distribution,” added the directive.
The International School of Film and Television (EICTV) of San Antonio de los Baños was founded on December 15, 1986.
The creation of the EICTV was an idea of the Colombian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, with the support of Fidel Castro.
The school, considered one of the most important institutions of its kind in the world, has graduated just over a thousand students from 60 countries in their various specialties, in addition to offering international workshops, high studies, masters and diplomas.
It is described as the “school of all worlds”, with an approach in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa, being a prestigied academy for its teaching cloister and the numerous personalities of cinema and literature, such as García Márquez himself, who have directed or collaborated as teachers, including the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami, the Argentine Fernando Birri, the Brazilian Orlando Senna and the Cuban Julio García Espinosa.
Likewise, a Pleiade of famous American and British directors have offered workshops in the center.
In addition to Francis Ford Coppola, students have been dazzled by the teachings and experiences of, among others, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Spike Lee, Stephen Frears and the great Steven Spielberg.
