This is not a regular show of French movies. Havana French Movie Festival is France’s top festival on non-French soil, and for Cubans is almost as important as the Latin America International Film Festival.
The choice of Cuba was not random. The island is probably the fifth movie-going country in the region and French authorities recognize Cubans as one of the most loyal and enthusiastic audience on this side of Atlantic Ocean.
There is also the fact that Cuba still has many movie theaters all over the country, some of them with more than 1,000 seats.
Every June, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos, together with the French Group Cinemania and the French Alliance, organize the event in Havana, and they usually extend the presentation to other provinces of the country.
The Chaplin Theater is the main venue of this Festival, although this year French films can be enjoyed in many venues in the capital.
One of the main attractions of the Festival is its diversity: hard to find auteur films , best titles during the last years, winning movies in European circuit of Festivals, animated films, documentaries, and short movies.
This time, the event is presenting this year 15 premieres, 4 documentaries, a collection of animated films, and 4 restored classical pieces from the French cinematography.
An important delegation of French moviemaker, actors, producers, authorities of the French film and TV industry, usually participates in the event, presenting their work.
Names as Jacques Perrin, Claudie Ossard, Agnés Jaoui, Dieudonné M’bala, Sergie López, Gérard Jugnot, Ludivine Sagnier, Jean Claude Drayfus, Vahina Giocante, TicKy Holgado, or Jean Pierre Jeunet, have been sharing their experiences and work with the Cuban public.
Awarded French-Greek filmmaker Costa Gavras
During the present edition, the renowned director Costa-Gavras is in the island, presenting his film Le capital.
Other significant attractions are the retrospectives and homage exhibits about relevant figures of French cinematography. We recall the season “Black roots” during the seventh edition in 1999, with films from Africa and francophone Antilles, and homages to filmmakers Jacques Demy (2008), Alan Resnais, (2009), and actress Sandrine Bonaire (2011).
LIST OF FILMS:
- LE CHAGRIN DES OISEAUX/ Abderrahmane Sissako (97’) France-Mauritania, 2014
- LA BELLE ET LA BETE / Christophe Gans (109’) France-Germany, 2014
- LE CAPITAL / Costa-Gavras (109’) France, 2012
- HOMOS: LA HAINE / Éric Guéret (70’) France, 2014
- JE FAIS LE MORT / Jean-Paul Salomé (104’) France-Belgium, 2013
- RETOUR A ITHAQUE / Laurent Cantet (95’) France, 2014
- CHANTE TON BAC D’ABORD / David André (82’) France, 2014
- LA COUR DE BABEL / Julie Bertuccelli (93’) France, 2013
- QUAI D’’ORSAY / Bertrand Tavernier (114’) France, 2013
- AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER / Alain Resnais (108’) France, 2014
- QU’EST-CE QU’ON A FAIT AU BON DIEU? / Philippe de Chauveron (97’) France, 2014
- IL ETAIT UNE FORET / Luc Jacquet (78’) France, 2013
- ATTILA MARCEL / Sylvain Chomet (106’) France, 2013
- CASSE-TETE CHINOIS / Cédric Klapisch (117’) France-EE.UU. Belgium, 2013
- LES GARÇONS ET GUILLAUME, A TABLE! / Guillaume Gallienne (86’) France-Belgium, 2013
- GRAND CENTRAL / Rebecca Zlotowski (95’) France-Austria, 2013
- 2 AUTOMNES 3 HIVERS / Sébastien Betbeder (91’) France, 2013
- AYA DE YOPOUGON / Marguerite Abouet y Clément Oubrerie (88’) France, 2013
- RENGAINE / Rachid Djaïdani (78’) France, 2012
- DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT / Jean-Pierre y Luc Dardenne (95’) Belgium-France-Italy, 2014
- LES CLASSIQUES DU CINÉMA RESTAURÉS
- ZERO DE CONDUITE: JEUNES DIABLES AU COLLEGE / Jean Vigo (44’) France, 1933
- CASQUE D’OR / Jacques Becker (98’) France, 1952
- LA GRANDE ILLUSION / Jean Renoir (113’) France, 1937
- LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS / Marcel Carné (180’) France, 1945
- / UN FILM ET SON EPOQUE – IL ETAIT UNE FOIS… LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS / Julie Bonan, Marie Genin y Serge July (51’) France, 2009
PROGRAM 2015:
CINE CHAPLIN
Friday 1: (17:00) LE CHAGRIN DES OISEAUX / (20:00) LA BELLE ET LA BETE
Saturday 2: (14:00) LA BELLE ET LA BETE / (17:00) RETOUR A ITHAQUE / (20:00) HOMOS: LA HAINE
Sunday 3: (14:00) HOMOS: LA HAINE / (17:00, 20:00) JE FAIS LE MORT
Tuesday 5: (17:00) RETOUR A ITHAQUE / (20:00) LA COUR DE BABEL
Wednesday 6: (17:00) LA COUR DE BABEL / (20:00) CHANTE TON BAC D’ABORD
Thursday 7: (17:00, 20:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY
Friday 8: (17:00, 20:00) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER
Saturday 9: (14:00, 17:00, 20:00) QU’EST-CE QU’ON A FAIT AU BON DIEU?
Sunday 10: (14:00) IL ETAIT UNE FORET / (17:00, 20:00):ATTILA MARCEL
Tuesday 12: (17:00) CASSE-TETE CHINOIS / (20:00) LES GARÇONS ET GUILLAUME, A TABLE!
Wednesday 13: (17:00) LES GARÇONS ET GUILLAUME, A TABLE! / (20:00) CASSE-TETE CHINOIS
Thursday 14: (17:00, 20:00) GRAND CENTRAL
Friday 15: (17:00, 20:00) 2 AUTOMNES 3 HIVERS
Saturday 16: (14:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR CHILDREN / (17:00, 20:00) 9 MESES
Sunday 17: (14:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR ADULTS / (17:00, 20:00) AYA DE YOPOUGON
Tuesday 19: (17:00) RENGAINE / (20:00) DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT
Wednesday 20: (17:00) DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT / (20:00) RENGAINE
CINE 23 Y 12:
Friday 1: (20:00) LE CAPITAL
Sunday 3: (17:00) LE CAPITAL
Friday 1: (17:00) ZERO DE CONDUITE: JEUNES DIABLES AU COLLEGE / (20:00) LE CAPITAL
Saturday 2: (14:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY / (17:00) LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS
Sunday 3: (14:00) UN FILM ET SON EPOQUE – IL ETAIT UNE FOIS… LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS / (17:00) LE CAPITAL / (20:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY
Tuesday 5: (17:00) CASQUE D’OR / (20:00) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER
Wednesday 6: (17:00) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER / (20:00) LA GRANDE ILLUSION
Thursday 7: (17:00) LA GRANDE ILLUSION / (20:00) CASQUE D’OR
Friday 8: (17:00) UN FILM ET SON EPOQUE – IL ETAIT UNE FOIS… LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS / (20:00) ZERO DE CONDUITE: JEUNES DIABLES AU COLLEGE
Saturday 9: (14:00) LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS / (20:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR ADULTS
Sunday 10: (14:00, 17:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR CHILDREN / (20:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR ADULTS
CINE YARA
Thursday 7: (13:00, 15:00, 16:30, 20:00) LE CHAGRIN DES OISEAUX
Friday 8: (13:00, 15:00, 16:30, 20:00) LA BELLE ET LA BETE
Saturday 9: (13:00) CHANTE TON BAC D’ABORD / (15:00) CHANTE TON BAC D’ABORD / (16:30) GRAND CENTRAL / (20:00) CASSE-TETE CHINOIS
Sunday 10: (13:00) CASSE-TETE CHINOIS / (15:00) GRAND CENTRAL / (16:30) CASSE-TETE CHINOIS / (20:00) GRAND CENTRAL
Tuesday 12: (13:00) JE FAIS LE MORT / (15:00) HOMOS: LA HAINE / (16:30) JE FAIS LE MORT / (20:00) HOMOS: LA HAINE
Wednesday 13: (13:00) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER / (15:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY / (16:30) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER / (20:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY
Thursday 14: (13:00) ATTILA MARCEL / (15:00) 2 AUTOMNES 3 HIVERS / (16:30) ATTILA MARCEL / (20:00) 2 AUTOMNES 3 HIVERS
Friday 15: (13:00) LA COUR DE BABEL / (15:00) RENGAINE / (16:30) LA COUR DE BABEL / (20:00) RENGAINE
Saturday 16: (13:00, 15:00, 16:30, 20:00) QU’EST-CE QU’ON A FAIT AU BON DIEU?
Sunday 17: (13:00, 15:00) IL ETAIT UNE FORET / (16:30, 20:00) DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT
Tuesday 19: (13:00, 16:30) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR CHILDREN / (15:00, 20:00) 9 MESES
Wednesday 20: (13:00, 16:30) AYA DE YOPOUGON / (15:00, 20:00) CHICOS Y GUILLERMO, ¡A
CINE LA RAMPA
Friday 1: (17:00) CHANTE TON BAC D’ABORD / (20:00) RENGAINE
Saturday 2: (17:00, 20:00) ATTILA MARCEL
Sunday 3: (17:00, 20:00) 2 AUTOMNES 3 HIVERS
Tuesday 5: (17:00) RENGAINE / (20:00) HOMOS: LA HAINE
Wednesday 6: (17:00, 20:00) LA BELLE ET LA BETE
Thursday 7: (17:00, 20:00) JE FAIS LE MORT
Friday 8: (17:00, 20:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY
Saturday 9: (17:00, 20:00) LE CHAGRIN DES OISEAUX
Sunday 10: (17:00, 20:00) 9 MESES
Tuesday 12: (17:00, 20:00) DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT
Wednesday 13: (17:00, 20:00) LA COUR DE BABEL
Thursday 14: (17:00, 20:00) AYA DE YOPOUGON
Friday 15: (17:00, 20:00) GRAND CENTRAL
Saturday 16: (17:00, 20:00) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER
Sunday 17: (17:00) LES GARÇONS ET GUILLAUME, A TABLE! / (20:00) CASSE-TETE CHINOIS
Tuesday 19: (17:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR CHILDREN / (20:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR ADULTS
Wednesday 20: (17:00, 20:00) IL ETAIT UNE FORET
MULTICINE INFANTA (SALA 1)
Friday 1: (17:00, 20:00) CASSE-TETE CHINOIS
Saturday 2: (17:00) IL ETAIT UNE FORET / (20:00) LA COUR DE BABEL
Sunday 3: (17:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR CHILDREN / (20:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR ADULTS
Tuesday 5: (17:00, 20:00) GRAND CENTRAL
Wednesday 6: (17:00, 20:00) 2 AUTOMNES 3 HIVERS
Thursday 7: (17:00, 20:00) 9 MESES
Friday 8: (17:00, 20:00) HOMOS: LA HAINE
Saturday 9: (17:00, 20:00) RENGAINE
Sunday 10: (17:00, 20:00) AYA DE YOPOUGON
Tuesday 12: (17:00, 20:00) LE CHAGRIN DES OISEAUX
Wednesday 13: (17:00, 20:00) CHANTE TON BAC D’ABORD
Thursday 14: (17:00, 20:00) LA BELLE ET LA BETE
Friday 15: (17:00, 20:00) JE FAIS LE MORT
Saturday 16: (17:00) JE FAIS LE MORT (20:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY
Sunday 17: (17:00, 20:00) QUAI D’’ORSAY
Tuesday 19: (17:00, 20:00) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER
Wednesday 20: (17:00, 20:00) ATTILA MARCEL
Thursday 21: (17:00) AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER / (20:00) ATTILA MARCEL
Friday 22: (17:00) DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT / (20:00) LES GARÇONS ET GUILLAUME, A TABLE!
SALA GLAUBER ROCHA, FUNDACIÓN DEL NUEVO CINE LATINOAMERICANO
Saturday 2: (14:00) 2 AUTOMNES 3 HIVERS
Friday 8: (16:30) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR ADULTS
Saturday 9: (14:00) ANIMATED SHORT FILMS FOR CHILDREN
Friday 15: (16:30) RENGAINE
Saturday 16: (14:00) AYA DE YOPOUGON
Friday 22: (16:30) QUAI D’’ORSAY
Saturday 23: (14:00) ATTILA MARCEL
Friday 29: (16:30) JE FAIS LE MORT
Saturday 30: (14:00) 9 MESES
