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At the meeting ICAIC President Ramón Samada announced the good news : the Festival would be resumed in 2021, but subject to certain conditions. First of all, it would be a reduced Festival, without massive get-togethers, parties or a daily bulletin, due to the lack of money to finance it and the restrictions entailed by the pandemic in Havana. Second, the festival s organizing committee would be reduced to four people, in addition to employees from the ICAIC itself, all under the oversight of the Institute s Office of Artistic Creation. The latter would imply the de facto disappearance of the Festival Board of Directors, made up since the last decade by a handful of young filmmakers, democratically elected by the filmmakers, with whom relations had been thorny for officials since the censorship of Yimit Ramírez s ....