CAMAGÜEY.-The 25th Film Critic´s Workshop began on Tuesday night in the Palatine Hall of Multiplex Casablanca in this city, with the same premise of resistance with that emerged in the decade of 90 of the last century.

Luciano Castillo, director of the Cuban Film Library, was in charge of the special presentation of the Swedish film Border that opened the event, to be developed until Friday 24, and that has important guests, such as film critics, academics and filmmakers of the audiovisual of the country.

The theoretical sessions begin this morning, in the New World Video Room, with a panel dedicated to the 25 years of the Workshop in which the researchers will participate Juan Antonio García, Armando Pérez, Luciano Castillo, Antonio Mazón and Mario Naito, witnesses of the first years of the event.

Another debate related to the Cuban documentary school and the renowned Noticiero ICAIC, will continue the day, followed by the presentation of the text Santiago Álvarez: A filmmaker in Revolution.

From 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday the space for debate Pluralities, which leads the Camagüey´s intellectual Jorge Santos Caballero, will also be devoted to the history of the workshop.

In the evening the project of the Association Hermanos Saiz, Cinema in the neighborhoods will reach the José White Conservatory with the French film María por callas.

While the film La Sombra will be on screen, after being presented by Antonio Mazón, as part of the cycle Panorama of contemporary cinema.

At that same time the New World Video Room will host the special presentation of the 25 x 25 cycle, to be presented during the edition, 25 of the great works exhibited in the workshop in this quarter of a century and that will begin with the projection of the documentary Microcosm , a French audiovisual of 1996 with a surprising view of the world from perspectives like an ant to achieve an exquisite vision.

The Film Critic’s Workshop is one of the most important quotes of the seventh art in the country, emerged in the difficult year 1993, when Cuba faced its special period in peacetime and its people erected as a great example of resistance.

In these times, in which to resist is still a word of order, in front of the implementation of the Helms Burton Act that tries to suffocate the island, the Workshop arrives precisely to its 25th edition, with the gaze placed in its own history and in the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, which celebrates 60 years of making cinema no matter the circumstances; and this time comes back to show that the resistance continues also from the culture.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez