• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 09 / 10 / 2011

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2011.09.09 - 11:14:42 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. HAVANA, CUBA.-  The Cuban film ‘Casa Vieja’, by director Lester Hamlet, had its Canadian premiere earlier this week during the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival (VLAFF) that is under way in that city until Sunday with the exhibition of 26 feature films, about 30 shorts, and a mix of fiction and documentary.

According to a press release from the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), the movie, which is scheduled to be screened again on Friday at the SFU Harbour Centre, had its premiere at the Pacific Cinematheque, where Lester Hamlet answered questions from the audience.

Produced by ICAIC and also exhibited in similar film festivals in Chicago and New York, ‘Casa Vieja’ is based on a homonymous play by Cuban playwright Abelardo Estorino and it has actors Yadier Fernandez, Daisy Quintana, Adria Santana, Alberto Pujol, Susana Tejera and Isabel Santos in the leading roles.

The film, which is competing for the Youth Jury Award, received the People’s Award during the 32nd Havana’s International Festival of New Latin American Cinema last year and it was also granted a Mention by the jury in the Fiction category.

The annual VLAFF was first held in 2003 and it aims at promoting Latin American cinema in Vancouver as a means to facilitate dialogue among different cultures and to explore historic and social issues through cinema.(ACN)