Held at the Zavattini hall of Italy’s Audiovisual Archive Foundation of the Labor and Democratic Movement (AAMOD), the event was “a moment of information, reflection, and participation” on the situation in Cuba and the importance of increasing support for its people.

AAMOD President Vincenzo Vita, Cuban Ambassador to Italy, Jorge Luis Cepero, essayist and film historian Antonio Medici, coordinator of the Gian Maria Volont Film School, and other representatives from several artistic, political, and social organizations of this country, attended the activity.

The documentary “Titon, de La Habana a Guantanamera” (Titon, from Havana to Guantanamera) about the life and work of this important Cuban filmmaker, was screened during the event. Its director, renowned actress Mirtha Ibarra, thanked AAMOD live from Cuba for the screening of the film, organized by Cuban filmmaker Luis Ernesto Donas.

Alexis Triana, president of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC); Susana Molina, director of the International Film and Television School in the Cuban town of San Antonio de los Banos; and Tania Delgado, director of the Havana International New Latin American Film Festival, also participated from Cuba.

Vita referred, in his opening remarks, to the need to strengthen solidarity with Cuba at this time, “which remains in our hearts, because it is not only an island, a physical place, but also a spiritual place, a revolutionary hope, a point of reference.”

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