MOVIES - Dec. 19, 1988
A politically charged Argentine film won the top award at Havana’s 10th Festival of New Latin America Cinema--a festival usually international in scope but narrowed due to high Latin American creative turnout. “Sur” (South), an Argentine film about a political prisoner’s first sweet night of freedom after five years in jail, was directed by Fernando Solanas, winner of the best director award at this year’s Cannes film festival. About 600 films, videos and television documentaries competed in the two-week festival, considered by Cubans to be Havana’s top cultural event.
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