Film screening marks Day of Cuban Culture in Ethiopia

Film screening marks Day of Cuban Culture in Ethiopia

The films Innocence (2018), Sapphire, Blue Madness (1997) and The Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) will be screened in that order at the Caribbean nation’s embassy until next Thursday, when Cuban Culture Day is celebrated.

Inspired by the execution of eight medical students in November 1871, when Cuba was a Spanish colony, and Fermín Valdés Domínguez’s investigation of the event, Inocencia is a feature film directed by Alejandro Gil. Sapphire, madness blue, directed by Manuel Herrera, reviews the birth and decline of the eponymous vocal quartet, which was an aesthetic and popular phenomenon in archipelago music in the 1960s and 1970s.

And Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, considered one of the most important representatives of the so-called New Latin American cinema, co-wrote and directed The Death of a Bureaucrat, a film that satirizes the country’s bureaucracy and its unbelievable consequences with a peculiar sense of humour.

As the Cuban consul here, Natalys Dinza, told Prensa Latina, “Members of diplomatic missions from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela are expected to attend the opening date of the presentations, among other guests . ”

Members of the medical brigade, citizens of our country living on the territory and Etiocubans (Ethiopians educated in Cuba) are also invited to the exhibition, Dinza added.

Every year between October 10th and 20th, Cuba celebrates national culture and this year 2022 dedicates the celebrations to the 50th anniversary of the Nueva Trova movement and the 60th anniversary of the beginning of artistic education.

On October 10, 1868, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, lawyer and owner of the Hacienda La Demajagua in Manzanillo in the east of the country, freed all his slaves and declared independence against Spanish colonialism.

Barely 10 days later, when his troops took the city of Bayamo, the hosts and locals sang La Bayamesa, a march with lyrics and melody by Perucho Figueredo that was later adapted into the national anthem.

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