'The ICAIC is 65 years old, and gives its filmmakers no space, does not answer their emails or letters, and then talks about a celebration of Cuban cinema,' says Rosa María Rodriguez Pupo.
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