Havana Film Festival

The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of latinamerican filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, and in English as Festival of New Latinamerican Cinema of Havana.

The festival takes place every year during December in the city of Havana, Cuba.

The festival first began on December 3, 1979. The president of the first organizing committee was Alfredo Guevara and more than 600 film directors of Latin America responded to the first call made by the Cuban Institute of the Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).

Awards

Within the following categories, approximately 40 awards are given:

• Films
• Documentaries
• Animation
• First Work
• Direction
• Cinematography
• Other Awards, including a FIPRESCI prize

External links

• Official website (Spanish)
• Havana Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
1979 (s)	Colonel Delmira Gouveia	Coronel Delmiro Gouveia	Geraldo Sarno	Brazil
1979 (s)	Maluala	N/A	Sergio Giral	Cuba
1980	Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey	Gaijin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade	Tizuka Yamasaki	Brazil
1981	They Don't Wear Black Tie	Eles Não Usam Black-Tie	Leon Hirszman	Brazil
1982	Time for Revenge	Tiempo de Revancha	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina
1983	Up to Certain Point	Hasta cierto punto	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	Cuba
1984	Memoirs of Prison	Memórias do Cárcere	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	Brazil
1985 (s)	Frida	Frida, naturaleza viva	Paul Leduc	Mexico
1985 (s)	Tangos, the Exile of Gardel	El exilio de Gardel: Tangos	Fernando Solanas	Argentina
1986	Hour of the Star	A Hora da Estrela	Suzana Amaral	Brazil
1987	A King and His Movie	La película del rey	Carlos Sorín	Argentina
1988	The South	Sur	Fernando Solanas	Argentina
1989	Last Images of the Shipwreck	Últimas imágenes del naufragio	Eliseo Subiela	Argentina
1990	Hello Hemingway	N/A	Fernando Pérez	Cuba
1991	Jericho	Jericó	Luis Alberto Lamata	Venezuela
1992	Forbidden Homework	La tarea prohibida	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo	Mexico
1993	Strawberry and Chocolate	Fresa y chocolate	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío	Cuba
1994	The Beginning and the End	Principio y fin	Arturo Ripstein	Mexico
1995	Midaq Alley	El callejón de los milagros	Jorge Fons	Mexico
1996	Deep Crimson	Profundo Carmesí	Arturo Ripstein	Mexico
1997	Martín (Hache)	N/A	Adolfo Aristarain	Argentina
1998	Life is to Whistle	La Vida es Silbar	Fernando Pérez	Cuba
1999	Olympic Garage	Garage Olimpo	Marco Bechis	Argentina
2000	Me You Them	Eu Tu Eles	Andrucha Waddington	Brazil
2001	The Swamp	La Ciénaga	Lucrecia Martel	Argentina
2001	90 Miles	90 Millas	Juan Carlos Zaldivar	United States
2002 (s)	City of God	Cidade de Deus	Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund	Brazil
2002 (s)	Suddenly	Tan de repente	Diego Lerman	Argentina
2003	Havana Suite	Suite Habana	Fernando Pérez	Cuba
2004	Whisky	N/A	Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll	Uruguay
2005	Blessed by Fire	Iluminados por el fuego	Tristán Bauer	Argentina
2006	Love for Sale	O Céu de Suely	Karim Aïnouz	Brazil
2007	Silent Light	Stellet Lijcht	Carlos Reygadas	Mexico
2008	Tony Manero	N/A	Pablo Larraín	Chile
2009	The Milk of Sorrow	La Teta Asustada	Claudia Llosa	Peru
2010	A Useful Life	La vida útil	Federico Veiroj	Uruguay
2011	Hell	El Infierno	Luis Estrada	Mexico
2012	NO	NO	Pablo Larraín	Chile
2013	Heli	N/A	Amat Escalante	Mexico
2014	Behavior	"Conducta"	Ernesto Daranas	Cuba