Havana Film Festival

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| location = Havana, Cuba

| awards = Grand Coral prize

| founded = 1979

| website = {{url|http://habanafilmfestival.com/}} {{in lang|es}}

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The Havana Film Festival is a Cuban festival that focuses on the promotion of Latin American filmmakers. It is also known in Spanish as Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, and in English as International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana.[https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Havana_Film_Festival/ Havana Film Festival] at the Internet Movie Database. It takes place every year during December in the city of Havana, Cuba.

History

The inaugural International Festival of New Latin American Cinema was held on December 3, 1979, 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). Its founders included ICAIC president Alfredo Guevara, and the filmmakers Julio García Espinosa and Pastor Vega.{{cite web |url=http://habanafilmfestival.com/los-fundadores/ |title=Fundadores | website=Habana Film Festival |access-date=19 January 2021}}

As expressed in its founding convocation, the festival aimed to "promote the regular meeting of Latin American filmmakers who with their work enrich the artistic culture of our countries (…); ensure the joint presentation of fiction films, documentaries, cartoons and current events (…), and contribute to the international diffusion and circulation of the main and most significant productions of our cinematographies".{{cite web |url=http://habanafilmfestival.com/historia/ |title=Fundadores | website=Habana Film Festival |access-date=19 January 2021}}

The inaugural festival hosted over 600 filmmakers from across Latin America. Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez as president of the Fiction jury and Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez as president of the jury for Documentaries and Animation. The Coral Grand Prize winners were Colonel Delmiro Gouveia (dir. Geraldo Sarno, Brazil) and Maluala (dir. Sergio Giral, Cuba) in Fiction, The Battle of Chile: the Struggle of a People Without Arms (dir. Patricio Gúzman, Chile) in Documentary, and Elpidio Valdés (dir. Juan Padrón, Cuba) in Animation.{{Cite news |last=Burnett |first=Victoria |date=2013-04-22 |title=Alfredo Guevara Valdés, 87, Steward of Cuban Cinema and Castro Ally, Dies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/movies/alfredo-guevara-valdes-steward-of-cuban-cinema-and-castro-ally-dies-at-87.html |access-date=2022-11-29 |issn=0362-4331}}

In 2013, following the death of current President and co-founder Alfredo Guevara the Havana Film Festival announced that it was reappointing Iván Giroud as its President. Giroud had previously served as President from 1994-2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/ivan-giroud-reappointed-director-of-the-havana-film-fest |title=Iván Giroud Reappointed Director of the Havana Film Fest |publisher=Cinema Tropical |date=2013-05-18 |website=Cinema Tropical |access-date=2021-01-19}}

Awards

Within the following categories, approximately 40 awards are given:[http://www.habanafilmfestival.com/seccypre/index.php3?festi=2006 Havana Film Festival] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218154720/http://www.habanafilmfestival.com/seccypre/index.php3?festi=2006 |date=2007-02-18 }} website, Awards section.

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

Grand Coral - First Prize winners (Fiction)

width="7%"\| Year !width="23%"\| English title !width="26%"\| Original title !width="30%"\| Director(s) !width="14%"\| Country of origin
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style="text-align:center;"\| 1979 (s)	Colonel Delmira Gouveia	Coronel Delmiro Gouveia	Geraldo Sarno	{{flagcountry\|Brazil}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1979 (s) \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Maluala\|Maluala}} \| {{sortname\|Sergio\|Giral}} \| {{flagcountry\|Cuba}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1980	Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey	Gaijin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade	Tizuka Yamasaki	{{flagcountry\|BRA}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1981	They Don't Wear Black Tie	Eles Não Usam Black-Tie	Leon Hirszman	{{flagcountry\|BRA}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1982	Time for Revenge	Tiempo de Revancha	Adolfo Aristarain	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1983	Up to Certain Point	Hasta cierto punto	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	{{flagcountry\|Cuba}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1984	Memoirs of Prison	Memórias do Cárcere	Nelson Pereira dos Santos	{{flagcountry\|BRA}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1985 (s)	Frida	Frida, naturaleza viva	Paul Leduc	{{flagcountry\|MEX}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1985 (s)	Tangos, the Exile of Gardel	El exilio de Gardel: Tangos	Fernando Solanas	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1986	Hour of the Star	A Hora da Estrela	Suzana Amaral	{{flagcountry\|BRA}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1987	A King and His Movie	La película del rey	Carlos Sorín	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1988	The South	Sur	Fernando Solanas	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1989	Last Images of the Shipwreck	Últimas imágenes del naufragio	Eliseo Subiela	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1990 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Hello Hemingway\|Hello Hemingway}} \| {{sortname\|Fernando\|Pérez\|Fernando Pérez (director)}} \| {{flagcountry\|Cuba}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1991	Jericho	Jericó	Luis Alberto Lamata	{{flagcountry\|VEN}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1992	Forbidden Homework	La tarea prohibida	Jaime Humberto Hermosillo	{{flagcountry\|MEX}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1993	Strawberry and Chocolate	Fresa y chocolate	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío	{{flagcountry\|Cuba}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1994	The Beginning and the End	Principio y fin	Arturo Ripstein	{{flagcountry\|MEX}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1995	Midaq Alley	El callejón de los milagros	Jorge Fons	{{flagcountry\|MEX}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1996	Deep Crimson	Profundo Carmesí	Arturo Ripstein	{{flagcountry\|MEX}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1997 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Martín (Hache)\|Martín (Hache)}} \| {{sortname\|Adolfo\|Aristarain}} \| {{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1998	Life is to Whistle	La Vida es Silbar	Fernando Pérez	{{flagcountry\|Cuba}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 1999	Olympic Garage	Garage Olimpo	Marco Bechis	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2000	Me You Them	Eu Tu Eles	Andrucha Waddington	{{flagcountry\|BRA}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2001	The Swamp	La Ciénaga	Lucrecia Martel	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2001	90 Miles	90 Millas	Juan Carlos Zaldivar	{{flagcountry\|USA}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2002 (s)	City of God	Cidade de Deus	Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund	{{flagcountry\|Brazil}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2002 (s)	Suddenly	Tan de repente	Diego Lerman	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2003	Havana Suite	Suite Habana	Fernando Pérez	{{flagcountry\|Cuba}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2004 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Whisky\|Whisky}} \| {{sortname\|Juan Pablo\|Rebella}} & {{sortname\|Pablo\|Stoll}} \| {{flagcountry\|URU}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2005	Blessed by Fire	Iluminados por el fuego	Tristán Bauer	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2006	Love for Sale	O Céu de Suely	Karim Aïnouz	{{flagcountry\|BRA}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2007	Silent Light	Stellet Lijcht	Carlos Reygadas	{{flagcountry\|MEX}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2008 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Tony Manero\|Tony Manero}} \| {{sortname\|Pablo\|Larraín}} \| {{flagcountry\|Chile}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2009	The Milk of Sorrow	La Teta Asustada	Claudia Llosa	{{flagcountry\|PER}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2010	A Useful Life	La vida útil	Federico Veiroj	{{flagcountry\|URU}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2011	Hell	El Infierno	Luis Estrada	{{flagcountry\|MEX}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2012 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|NO\|NO}} \| {{sortname\|Pablo\|Larraín}} \| {{flagcountry\|Chile}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2013 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Heli\|Heli}} \| {{sortname\|Amat\|Escalante}} \| {{flagcountry\|Mexico}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2014	Behavior	Conducta	Ernesto Daranas	{{flagcountry\|CUB}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2015	The Club	El club	Pablo Larraín	{{flagcountry\|Chile}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2016 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Desierto\|Desierto}} \| {{sortname\|Jonás\|Cuarón}} \| {{flagcountry\|Mexico}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2017 \| colspan="2"\| {{sort\|Alanis\|Alanis}} \| {{sortname\|Anahí\|Berneri}} \| {{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2018	Birds of Passage	Pájaros de verano	Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego	{{flagcountry\|Colombia}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2019	The Sleepwalkers	Los sonámbulos	Paula Hernández	{{flagcountry\|Argentina}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2021	Pacified	Pacificado	Paxton Winters	{{flagcountry\|Brazil}}{{cite web \|title=Premios Coral de la edición 42 del Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano \|url=http://habanafilmfestival.com/premios-coral-de-la-edicion-42-del-festival-internacional-del-nuevo-cine-latinoamericano/ \|website=Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano \|access-date=19 June 2022 \|language=es \|date=11 December 2021}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2022	The Great Movement	El gran movimiento	Kiro Russo	{{flagcountry\|Bolivia}}{{cite web \|title=Premios Coral de la edición 43 del Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano \|url=http://habanafilmfestival.com/premios-de-la-43-edicion/ \|website=Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano \|access-date=20 March 2023 \|language=es \|date=15 December 2022}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2023	Tótem	Tótem	Lila Aviles	{{flagcountry\|Mexico}}{{cite web \|title=La mexicana ´Tótem´ triunfa en el Festival Internacional de Cine de La Habana \|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/la-mexicana-t%C3%B3tem-triunfa-en-el-festival-internacional-de-cine-de-la-habana/49064454 \|website=Swiss Info \|access-date=7 September 2024 \|language=es \|date=7 September 2024}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2024	La cocina	La cocina	Alonso Ruizpalacios	{{flagcountry\|Mexico}}{{cite web \|date=21 April 2025 \|title=2024 Best cinematography winner \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19864832/awards/?ref_=tt_awd \|access-date=21 April 2025 \|website=IMDb \|language=en}}

Awards by nation

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Footnotes

External links

[http://www.habanafilmfestival.com/ Official website] {{in lang|es}}
[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000314/ Havana Film Festival] at the Internet Movie Database

Category:Cuban film awards

Category:Film festivals in Cuba

Category:Film festivals established in 1979

Category:1979 establishments in Cuba

Category:Latin American film festivals