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Shot in French and Chadian Arabic, the film won the Jury’s
Special Prize at the Cannes Festival in 2010 and will be
presented to the Cuban public by its director, according to
information provided on Thursday by Rigoberto Lopez, president
of the Caribbean Cinema Traveling Exhibition, during a press
conference in this capital.
The cycle
includes 16 titles from 12 countries, among them “Ramata”, by
Congolese filmmaker Leandre Alain Backer; “El precio del perdon”,
by Senegalese Mansour Sora Wade; and “El heroe”, by Zeze Gamboa,
the winner of a prize at the Sundance Festival in 2005 and at
FESPACO, the region’s most important cinematographic event.
The
African Cinema Festival complements the Meeting of Filmmakers
from Africa, the Caribbean and its Diasporas, slated for
September 12th through the 16th, within the framework of the
International Year of Afro-descendants.
The
program will be extended to 11 provinces in the country,
including Pinar del Rio, Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba, added
Lopez.
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