Havana, Dec 10 (Prensa Latina) If this cinematic December brings anything to Cuba, besides films and flashes, it is the satisfaction and gratitude of those who today dedicate their lives to a magical expression, which makes possible utopias, dreams and other realities.
All of this seasoned with the emotion that tributes always bring, like the one experienced tonight at the Hotel Habana Libre, in this capital, when the Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, in its 46th edition, presented an Honorary Coral to the Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.
Upon receiving it, visibly moved, he recalled his family, the people who accompanied him and those who introduced him to cinema, including his grandmother, his father and his friends.
He also recalled that experience he had in his youth at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de Los Baños, in Cuba, where he learned a lot and discovered multiple dimensions of the manifestation that embraces him.
He explained that at first, film seemed unattainable to him; however, his participation in Amores perros and Y tu mamá también showed him the path to a universe that captivated him and from which he captivates with great virtuosity.
He said that cinema was the space that allowed him to understand, imagine, provoke, and make family and friends. It became that multiverse, “that life where one lives, and I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to do so.”
He likes to explore and satisfy curiosities, he said, adding that he never starts anything with absolute certainty; “it’s always a discovery, a doubt, it’s putting everything at stake.”
Near the end of his speech, he thanked everyone for the award, the emotion of the moment, and for being there thanks to Latin American cinema, the home where he embarked on his “artistic journey”.
“I want to thank Cuba, which has given me so much, and many of those things I keep in a very deep secret.”
The meeting was conducive to the signing of a collaboration agreement between the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and Estudios Churubusco, from Mexico, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary.
The alliance was made possible thanks to the Latin American Film Market (Mecla) Isla Abierta, in its first edition, and whose objective is to restore a space born with the festival and which had been lost.
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