Short Takes : Havana Jury Picks Cuban Film
A Cuban film, “Hello Hemingway,” which evokes the figure of novelist Ernest Hemingway through the eyes of a teen-age Cuban girl, won the top prize at the 12th Havana International Film Festival that ended Sunday night.
Second prize went to “La luna en el espejo” by Chilean director Silvio Caiozzi, while a Mexican film, “Pueblo de Madera,” directed by Juan Antonio de la Riva, won third prize.
The jury at the festival, which specializes in new Latin American films, awarded a special prize to Argentine Maria Luisa Bemberg’s “Yo, la peor de todas,” a film about the 17th-Century Mexican nun-poetess Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz.
“Hello Hemingway” by Cuban director Fernando Perez also won Best Actress for 20-year-old Cuban Laura de la Uz.
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