CUBANS PRAISE OWN FILM FESTIVAL
Cuban commentators have lauded the 7th Latin American Film Festival as the nation’s most outstanding cultural event of the year, Cuba’s Prensa Latina news agency said.
More than 400 films from 50 countries were shown. The festival attracted several American movie actors, including Jack Lemmon, who was awarded the Coral Prize for his “exemplary artistic life.”
Prensa Latina quoted Cuban observers as naming the festival as “the grand event” of 1985 and said that participants decided to establish a Havana-based fund to encourage the development of Latin American film.
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