HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 16 (ACN) To celebrate the 98th and 65th anniversaries of the birth of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and the founding of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic by its Spanish acronym), respectively, the Charles Chaplin cinema in Havana reopened its doors on Thursday, with the presentation of the documentaries “Moments with Fidel” and “In the Name of Hope”.
About “Moments with Fidel”, produced by Icaic, Rebeca Chavez, its director, said that with the current view it seems that everything was born in the 60’s, after the triumph of the Revolution, a moment lived by many Cubans with great intensity.
Chavez described what happened after January 1, 1959 as a hurricane that involved the people 24 hours a day and at the center of this kind of phenomenon was Fidel, who gave it a special touch.
The filmmaker explained that “Moments with Fidel” is the seventh chapter of the audiovisual series Cuba: Roads of Revolution, made along with Manuel Perez and Daniel Diaz Torres around 2002.
Regarding “In the Name of Hope”, Elier Ramirez, researcher a