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.
Cuban Film Festival will release new Netflix TV series
The first two episodes of the TV series Cien años de soledad (One hundred years of solitude), produced by the Netflix platform and based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), will be released in Havana on December 6, in the context of the 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema.
Cuban painters of naïve art exhibit in the U.S.
The collective exhibition Por un mundo mejor (For a better world) by 12 painters of the Bayate Group, will be displayed until December 30 at the Indigo Art Gallery, a center in Philadelphia, U.S.A, specialized in popular art.
Cuban study center advocates creation of scientific networks
The II Workshop on International Project Management of the Latin American Center for Studies in Pedagogical Epistemology Studies “Paulo Freire” (CESPE) opened its doors in this city.
Cuba gets ready for 40th international jazz festival
The musically creative city of Santiago de Cuba will host the 40th International Jazz Plaza Festival on January 26 to February 2, 2025, according to Rodulfo Vaillant, chair of the local organizing committee.
Havana Hosts Biennial of Visual Arts Exhibit
Havana is hosting the biennial visual arts exhibit considered by its organizers as a cultural decolonizing gesture because it show the artistic creation of the global south.
Schubertiada Habanera 2024 is back to the historic center of the city
With a remarkable diversity of formats and starring talented soloists of concert music, artists and vocal and instrumental works, Schubertiada Habanera 2024 returns to Havana's Historic Center.
Cuban Academy of Sciences to award eminent US orthopedics
The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym) will award in the coming days the Operation Walk Volunteer Organization, which since 1997 offers free surgery to patients for arthritis or other bone and joint conditions, despite the persistent socio-economic war against the country by the U.S. government.
Havana International Ballet Festival resumes its program after hurricane Rafael
The 28th International Ballet Festival of Havana "Alicia Alonso" (FIBHAA) will resume its program this Saturday at the Marti and National Theaters, after the passage of Hurricane Rafael through western Cuba.
Díaz Canel: “Culture reinforces the feeling for Homeland”
Culture stimulates and strengthens the feeling for Homeland; it’s vital and indispensable food for people’s spirituality, and it brings freedom”, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said in his speech at the 10th Congress of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
New Book on Relations between Fidel Castro and Cuban Artists
The book “Fidel y la Cultura” (Fidel and Culture), considered a necessary tool to understand the past, present and future of Cuban artistic creation, was launched Friday in Havana during the opening of the 10th Congress of the Cuban Writers and Artists’ Association (UNEAC).
International Ballet Festival of Havana kicks off today
With artists from some 15 countries, belonging to prestigious national and foreign companies, the 28th International Ballet Festival of Havana "Alicia Alonso" (FIBHAA by its Spanish acronym) will open today until November 10.
Cuban Foreign Minister salutes art exhibition “Cuba is not alone”
In a post on X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla hailed the exhibition “Cuba is not alone”, organized in New York on October 29 and 30 on the occasion of the debate of Resolution 78/7 of the United Nations General Assembly against the U.S. blockade of the island.
International Crafts Fair 2024 reopens today in eastern Cuba
After its cultural program stopped following the shutdown of the National Power Grid and the battering of Hurricane Oscar in the eastern region, the 22nd International Crafts Fair IBEROARTE reopens its doors today in this city.
Díaz-Canel honors Cuban Culture Day
Despite the collapse of the Cuban power grid and the landfall of Hurricane Oscar, President Miguel Diaz-Canel posted a message on X recalling that Sunday marked Cuban Culture Day.
His text also has words of praise for those “who went out to achieve independence 156 years ago”.







