Humberto Solás

Humberto Solás was born in Havana on 4 December 1941 and made a first short film at the age of eighteen. After Manuela, a medium-length film of 1967, this film is his first feature film; Cecilia, in 1982, would be presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2003 he founded the Gibara festival of poor cinema, open to filmmakers with limited means, received the national film prize in 2005 and died in Havana on 17 September 2008.

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• Feature filmLucíaHumberto Solás · 1968Cinema