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The 19th International Poor Cinema Festival of Gibara opened on Tuesday with the presentation of the 2025 Honorary Lucia Award to the Cuban actress and National Theater and Television Award winner Veronica Lynn, the critic and researcher Luciano Castillo, and the Casa Gitana project.

The 19th edition of the Gibara International Poor Film Festival opens today with the screening of the film Fenomenos Naturales (Natural Phenomena), directed by Cuban director Marcos Diaz Sosa, which will run until April 19 in this coastal city in the eastern province of Holguin.

The famed Sydney Opera House in Australia brimmed with Cuban music in a concert organized by Artists for Peace in collaboration with the Cuban Embassy.

With the participation of representatives of culture, academia and diplomacy from more than a dozen countries, the 23rd International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture kicked off in Santiago de Cuba, an event that will last until April 16.

The integration of animation and experimental cinema to the competition for the Lucia Awards is one of the novelties of the 19th edition of the International Poor Film Festival of Gibara, which from April 15 to 19, will be held in this coastal city in the eastern province of Holguin.

On April 12 to 15, the city of Santiago de Cuba will be the venue of the XXIII International Conference of African and African-American Culture, an event dedicated to women in Africa and in the Diaspora and their role in family and society.

The III International Caribbean Film and Environment Festival “Isla Verde” organized the workshop Interpretation as an actor’s natural process, given by the Cuban actresses Mirtha Ibarra―2025 National Film Award winner―and Elba Pérez Torres, who is also a screenwriter and playwright and turned the event into an opportunity to boost the artistic and environmental training of young talents.

Films from more than 30 countries will prestige the Festival de Cine Pobre de Gibara (Gibara Poor Film Festival), which will come to this coastal city in the eastern province of Holguin April 15-19, with some 500 works included in the program of the event.

With the aim of preserving the musical essences of the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio and Cuba, the international festival La Guarapachanga is back, which in its 10th edition proposes a fancy artistic program.

The 3rd International Caribbean Film and Environment Festival Isla Verde (Green Island), the only one of its kind in the region, was opened on Isle of Youth with the Cuban premiere of the animated documentary Mariposas negras (Black Butterflies), winner of the Goya Award for Best Animated Film 2025.

At the age of 80, renowned Cuban writer Luis Cabrera Delgado, one of the most relevant names in children's and young people's literature in Cuba, as well as in adult narrative, essays and theater, died in the central city of Santa Clara, the Cuban Book Institute reported.

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