South-East of Havana lies the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV), one of the most prestigious and creative places in the world, founded 23 years ago by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Márquez together with Argentinian and respectively Cuban film directors Fernando Birri and Julio Garcia Espinoza. In the course of years, the school has developed into one of the world's foremost cradles of audiovisual culture. Its academic excellence as well as the film directors and teachers that graduate from there, are being constantly acclaimed in the film festivals of all five continents. It boasts among its teachers such names as Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Greenaway and from its home country, Cuba, Cinemaissi's this year's guest, Fernando Pérez Valdés, just to mention a few.

EICTV WINDOW presents a selection of short film documentaries directed by its graduates around this year's theme: Peoples in Movement.
The selection includes two prize-winning short films, How to Build a Boat (2006) and Fatherland (2007) by the recent winner of the Golden Bear for Short Films, Cuban director Susana Barriga. In addition, the 11 times awarded “Los que se quedaron” (1993) by the critically acclaimed Spanish director Benito Zambrano will be shown and Free Taxi (2008) by the Mexican-Brazilian director Aldana Simoes Orozco and her all-female team, will close the EICTV Window.

¡Larga vida a la utopía del ojo y de la oreja!
F. Birri