Havana Film Festival New York screens new international Latin films and retrospectives that you won’t see anywhere else in New York City. It has great opening night and closing night parties.
Its sister festival, El Festival de Cine de la Habana (Havana Film Festival) is an important film festival because Cuba is respected across the Latin world as one of the centers of Latin culture in the Americas, and for standing up to the Americans. Since the Colonial Era, whatever happened in Cuba spread across the Spanish-speaking Americas, and whatever happened in the Spanish-speaking Americas came back to Cuba, and even went on to Spain.
24th Havana Film Festival New York 2024
The 24 Havana Film Festival New York 2024, has a kick-off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 2:40pm; and screens international Latin films at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; from Friday-Thursday, April 12-18, 2024. Films $15. Passes from $50. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇾
This edition includes films from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, United States, and Uruguay.
The Opening Night Film is “La Mujer Salvaje” (Wild Woman), by Cuban director Alán González. “In a Havana slum, a woman survives a bloody fight between her husband and her lover. In a desperate attempt to spare her son from the scandal, she decides to run away with him, but a video of the incident has already gone viral.” 🇨🇺
The Centerpiece Film is “El Mundo de Nelsito” (Nelsito’s World), by Cuban director Fernando Pérez. Nelsito is a 16-year-old autistic teen who survives a car accident. He sees everything, but retreats into his own imaginary world. As he recovers, Nelsito has to figure out, what was real and what was imagined? 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
The Closing Night Film is “Igualada,” Juan Mejia’s 2024 documentary about Francia Márquez, the Afro-Colombian human rights activist from Yolombó, Cauca, Colombia, who is now Colombia’s Vice President. Saying “igualada” is an insult suggesting someone is low-class pretending to be high-class. Márquez flipped it around in that we should be proud to be of el pueblo (the people). We are proud to be igualada because all people should be equal.
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The Festival is produced by the American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation Cuba, an organization that produces cultural exchange programs.
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