From the 30th of January, a Cuban Cinema Week will take place in Mexico, an event for which the Cineteca de México, the Cuban Embassy and the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (Icaic) are today finalising details.

Mexico welcomes our cinematography with open arms, affirmed the Cultural Attaché of the Cuban embassy in the Latin American nation, Norma Rodríguez, during the press conference that took place the day before at the Icaic headquarters.

As a prelude to the cycle, on the past 11th of November the feature film Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) was screened at the Cineteca, alongside a selection of Cuban film posters that form part of the UNESCO Memory of the World collection.

Likewise, on the 17th, when said Mexican institution celebrates its 52nd anniversary, the feature film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), the work of director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, will be projected.

The relationship between Cuba and Mexico in the field of culture is extremely broad and this will be a marvellous space and a demonstration of the permanent solidarity between our cinematographies, added Rodríguez.

Although the number or other names of the films selected for the event have not yet been revealed, the official declared that they will be classics from the revolutionary era, curated by the Director of the Cinemateca de Cuba, Luciano Castillo.

Icaic qualifies the Cineteca de México as a fundamental pillar in the preservation and dissemination of national and international film heritage.

The Cuban Cinema Week is one of several cooperation projects between both countries, among which can be cited the handing over of the feature film The Man from Maisinicú (1973) for its restoration or the signing of an agreement between the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños and the Churubusco Studios.