Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Italy present at Havana International Film Festival

 HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 12 (ACN) In the context of the 44th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, filmmakers and artists from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Italy offered today details of their competing films at the Sancti Spiritus Hall of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in Havana.

Tommaso Santambrogio, director of the film "The Oceans Are the Real Continents" (2023), explained that the film is made up of different stories that take place in the Cuban town of San Antonio de los Baños and was a work that began about five years ago.

Regarding the use of black and white as a resource in the shots, Santambrogio pointed out that it is a resource to help foster the relationship with the audience and tell his story in a more direct way.

It also made it possible to change the perspective between the plot and reality, the Italian filmmaker added.

For his part, Pedro Vallace, director of the Argentine-Brazilian co-production " The Pregnant Women" (2023), announced that the plot narrates the vicissitudes of two pregnant women, along a journey characterized by the lack of solidarity and the neglect of the system from the peripheral neighborhood where they lived to the border between these nations.

Meanwhile, Colombian writer and director Juan Sebastian Quebrada indicated that his debut feature, " The Other Son" (2023), is based on the life of a teenager after the sudden death of his brother.

The drama becomes a contrast between the mourning for that loss and the development of an adolescent world, which was partly possible thanks to the casting and actor selection process, he said.

The 44th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema welcomes representatives from 19 countries, including films from Colombia, Mexico and Chile, followed by Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela and Cuba.