[NYTr] Havana to Host International Contemporary Cinema Week

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

[The big annual Havana Latin American Film Festival is in December, but
this is an additional event concentrating on other International
filmmakers from Europe and Asia. NYTr]

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Havana to Host International Contemporary Cinema Week

Havana, Sept 3 (acn) A selection of contemporary prize-winning films 
from India, Iran, Russia and Germany will be screened in this capital 
from September 6 to 11.

The week of international cinema will open with "Turtles can also fly", 
a joint French-Iranian-Iraqi production directed by Bahman Ghobadi and 
award-winner at the San Sebastian Festival in 2004.

The program includes "The geishas' secret lives", presented by popular 
US actress Susan Sarandon, and "The Russian arc" directed by Alexandr 
Sokurov, which has won awards at international festivals held in 
Malaga, Toronto and San Francisco.

The film, which offers a tour of the Hermitage Museum in Saint 
Petersburg, is considered very innovative since it was the first film 
in movie history to be shot in only one take.

The prestigious Indian director Nignht Shyamala will also be presented 
at Havana's movie theatres with films such as "The Sixth Sense" 
(nominated for 6 Academy Awards) and "Signals" (which made him one of 
the top-earning script writers in Hollywood).

The movie theatres in Havana will also be screening, for the next two 
weeks, seven Asian films that have already been premiered in Cuba.