Applications for the laboratory Del cine a la acción (From cinema to action), to be held on March 22-26, 2023 within the framework of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), are open until January 9 to all Latin American countries.

Ines Maria Chapman, Cuban deputy prime minister, stressed today that the Casa de las Americas awards will be presented in April 2023, coinciding with the anniversary of this institution, where Latin American identity and culture continue to be defended.

The 31st edition of the Havana International Book Fair will sell 4,200,000 printed books and 4,200 titles, organizers said today at a press conference.

In the context of the celebrations for the 54th anniversary of the humorous magazine Melaíto—the only one of its kind that is not based in Havana—the 21st International Exhibition of Graphic Humor “Santa Clara 2022”, which boasted almost 500 competing works from 45 countries, concluded in this city.

The 300 delegates to the currently ongoing 10th Congress of the Federation of University Students (FEU) participated in an anti-imperialist concert in this city offered by the duet Vida, singers Cristoffer Simpson and Nelson Valdés and the band Moncada, whose performance was enjoyed by more than 130,000 higher education students from all over Cuba.

The 27th Scientific Workshop on Afro-American Social and Cultural Anthropology, intended to address ways of protecting the African intangible and tangible cultural heritage in Cuba and the Caribbean, will be held on January 4 to 7, 2023, in Havana’s Historic Center of Havana.

The Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC) invites Cuban and foreign professionals to the 1st International Workshop on Architecture, Design and Urbanism.

The 36th anniversary of the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, province of Artemisa, established on December 15, 1986 by the Latin American Filmmakers Committee as an affiliate of the New Latin American Film Foundation, was dedicated to a talk as part of the collateral activities of the 43rd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema under way in this city.

In his first work Dioses de México [Gods of Mexico], screenwriter, producer and filmmaker Helmut Dosantos pays homage to the diverse indigenous and Afro-descendant communities of this sister nation in the context of the 43rd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, held in Havana.

Cuban and foreign film producers opened a film marketing and distribution forum as part of the 43rd International Havana Film Festival.

The 43rd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema starts today in Havana with the screening of Santiago Mitre’s feature film Argentina 1985.

 The knowledge held by Cuban light rum masters was added today to UNESCO’s list of intangible heritage.

The book entitled “Lo primero que hay que salvar” (What’s the First to be Solved), a compilation of speeches by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro at conferences and meetings of the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEA), was launched Friday in this easter city.

As part of the activities to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the physical loss of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, journalist and essayist Katiuska Blanco Castiñeiras presented today the new edition of her book Angel, la raiz gallega de Fidel (Angel, Fidel's Galician Roots).