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Norwegian guitar player and director of the record label Bergland Production, Gunnar Andreas Berg, described rumba ―one of the most deeply rooted popular expression in Cuba―, as exceptional.

In memory of the forty years of its premiere and the eighty years of the birth of its director, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the Cuban Movie Library has prepared a commemoration event for such important things.

Alejandro Ramírez has demonstrated his movie instinct in order to find stories in the strangest of places. This time it was in the mountain in Villa Clara, a region from El Escambray, inhabited by a community of six families, away from cosmopolitan life.

The Cuban press emphasized the work of Zhang Yimou, one of the best known Chinese movie makers in the world and the director of the opening ceremony of the XXIX Beijing Olympic games.

Even though the life and work of the national hero is very well known in our country, his youth has been one of the least dealt with aspects.

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry (ICAIC, after its initials in Spanish) has launched its program to celebrate its 50 anniversary next 24 of March 2009. The slogan of the program could be “Celebrating the 50, working harder”.

The actress Mirtha Ibarra will pay a new tribute to the movie maker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Titón), with a documentary in which the director himself appears talking about his movies.

The New Latin-American Cinema Festival held every year in Havana in December comes to its thirty series. This year’s Festival will be held in Havana from December 2nd to 12, keeping its condition as an exceptional space to get in contact with Latin American cinema productions.

Cuban cultural expressions will be showed in a co-production with the Brazilian cinematography, directed to show the similarities of the cultures of both nations.

In addition to identifying with the loser and the humble, having mutual respect for each other, similar aesthetic and philosophical preferences, and having worked together in three films, director Fernando Pérez and actor Luis Alberto García will have something else in common when they begin writing a script about another shared love: Cuba.

Vanessa Redgrave, one of Great Britain´s best actresses ever, is expected in Havana for the Cuban premiere of the film The Fever (2004), which she starred, directed by her son, filmmaker Carlo Nero.

A multimedia titled Confluencias inside was presented at the Cetros Hall of the Melia Cohiba Hotel. It is a production of Juan Delgado Calzadilla, with 80 works of 26 Cuban artists and with the collaboration of the National Council of Plastic Arts.

International Audiovisual Exhibit for Health Sciences "Videosalud2008" will be held in Havana to favor exchange and cooperation among health institutions and professionals.

The number 168 of the specialized Cuban magazine Cine Cubano was recently launched in Havana with a dossier dedicated to cartoon maker and film director Juan Padron, winner of the National Cinema Prize in 2008.