Havana hosts 45th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 5 (ACN) Under the slogan "Live cinema, live cinema", Havana will host from today the 45th edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema (FINCL by its Spanish acronym), a reference of audiovisual creation to make visible the reality of the continent.
The Argentine feature film "Sundays More People Die", by Iair Said, will be the film to be screened at the opening ceremony at the Charles Chaplin cinema in Havana.

The 2024 film, which competes at the Festival in the Opera Prima category, is a dramatic comedy whose protagonist is David, who "returns home to Buenos Aires and is torn between his difficult relationship with his mother and a fierce desire to mitigate his existential anguish. He spends his days learning to drive, oscillating between the past and the present and trying to have sex with anyone who pays him the slightest bit of attention," the synopsis states.

The film event, which begins Thursday, received 2,017 entries, of which 256 will compete, distributed among films, scripts, posters and films in production, said director Tania Delgado Fernandez.

The works come from 42 countries, with a special representation of Latin American audiovisual creation that will allow viewers to get in touch with the continent's culture and intellectuality, said Delgado Fernandez.

The Festival will feature important guests such as Carole Rosenberg, founder of the Havana Film Festival and promoter of Cuban culture on an international scale, who will be awarded the Coral of Honor.

Issues such as childhood, adolescence and youth, old age and violence will be themes that will be present in most of the films on the screen.

Tribute will be paid to the intellectual Alfredo Guevara, creator of the event, whose centenary will be in 2025, and to filmmakers Sergio Giral, from Cuba, and Geraldo Sarno, from Brazil, who won the Fiction Coral in the pioneer edition of 1979.

The festival will host an exhibition of Palestinian cinema as a small contribution to give visibility to the struggle of that country to defend its sovereignty against the Israeli genocide.

The International Festival of New Latin American Cinema was founded on December 3, 1979.