Sin La Habana

  • 13th San Francisco Dance Film Festival Announces Complete Program

    Victor Amaya in Lift by David Petersen
    Victor Amaya, formerly of New York Theatre Ballet’s LIFT program, leaps in the air, as seen in LIFT, directed by David Petersen. Photo credit: Fyodor Shiryaev. Courtesy of Beaufort 9 Films

    The 13th annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SFDFF) showcases international and locally produced dance films from October 28 to November 7, 2022, in various San Francisco theaters and streamed online.

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  • New York Jewish Film Festival 2022 Announces Lineup. Opens with NY Premiere of ‘Neighbours’

    Neighbours directed by Mano Khalil
    Neighbours directed by Mano Khalil

    The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center will present the 31st annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF) in person and virtually from January 12 through 25, 2022. The NYJFF lineup showcases 33 wide-ranging and exciting features and shorts (24 features and nine shorts), including the latest works by dynamic voices in international cinema, as well as the world premiere of a new 4K restoration of the 1984 film Kaddish by Steve Brand.

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  • A COP MOVIE to Open 2021 AFI Latin American Film Festival Lineup, Closes with LA SOGA 2

    A Cop Movie directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
    A Cop Movie directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios

    The 2021 AFI Latin American Film Festival set for September 23 – October 13 at the historic AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD will open with Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ (Güeros, Museo) Berlin-debuted A Cop Movie, an immersive, on-the-job and behind-the-scenes look at the life of two Mexico City cops, which confirms Ruizpalacios’ genius for creating unexpected, genre-bending cinema and won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution earlier this year.

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  • 20th Ashland Independent Film Festival Releases Full Lineup of 100 Indie Films

    Fanny: The Right to Rock
    Fanny: The Right to Rock

    The Ashland Independent Film Festival released the complete schedule for its 20th annual festival presented this year as a “double feature”– online, with most films available coast-to-coast from April 15-29, and live and outdoors in Ashland and Medford from June 24-28. AIFF’s 2021 festival will present approximately 100 new independent films, including 35 feature films and a dozen shorts programs, accompanied by Q&A’s with filmmakers, virtual parties, mixers, and panels.

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  • Beautiful Cuban Drama SIN LA HABANA International Premiere at Miami Film Festival

    "Sin La Habana" directed by Kevah Nabatian
    “Sin La Habana” directed by Kevah Nabatian

    An Afro-Cuban couple, desperately searching for a way out of Cuba, meet a lonely Iranian-Canadian woman searching for adventure in paradise, and their entire plan derails when real emotions get involved. Sin La Habana is a story about the lengths people will go to follow their dreams.

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