Cuban Film Festival To Open, Will Pay Tribute to Fidel
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People read the Festival newspaper outside the Payret movie theater in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 6, 2008. | Photo: Cubadebate
The festival will present 427 Latin American films in 10 days.
Cuba will hold its 38th annual International Festival of New Latin American Cinema from Dec. 8-18 in Havana, the most important cinematographic event in the country.
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The organizers of the festival, in a statement on Nov. 28, mourned the death of their revolutionary leader Fidel Castro: "From the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana we join in the pain of the physical loss of one of our great founders and thinkers in Latin American cinema as a movement that still unites us today .....