Quito, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) A screening of Cuban cinema in Ecuador pays tribute today to a group of films from the beginning of the Revolution and contemporary movies, Wilma Granda, director of the National Film Library of the local House of Culture, stated.
In statements to Prensa Latina, Granda said that the "Ulises Estrella" National Film Library at the House of Ecuadorian Culture, the Ministry of Culture, the National Film Board and the Cuban embassy in Quito, present the audiovisual campaign like a distinction.
The screening will be run until July 26, to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Cuban Film Library, she stated.
In that sense, Cuban feature film "Vestido de Novia" (Bride's Dress), which tells the story of the first post-operative transsexual male to female in the island, will be screened, she said.
Granda explained that Marilyn Solaya, director of the film, will attend the screening of the movie at the Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco Theater, in which another film "Hay un grupo que dice" (A Group is Saying), by Lourdes Prieto (2013) and Venecia (Venice), by Enrique Alvarez (2014), will be also shown.
Other films such as "Me dicen Cuba" (They Speak of Cuba), by Pablo Massip (2014), Esther en alguna parte (Esther Somewhere), by Gerardo Chijona (2013), "La pared de las palabras" (The Wall of Words), by Fernando Perez, and "La película de Ana" (Anna's Film), by Daniel Diaz Torres (2013), will be also shown, he said.