The usual participants inauguration parade, the fireworks, the movie screening of Humberto Solás’ A November’s Day (1972), and the inauguration concert by afro-rock group Síntesis marked out the first day of the VII Humberto Solás Non-Budget International Film Festival in Gibara. 
Gibara is noted for its history, culture and its biodiversity in its flora and fauna, in addition to the architecture that turned it into National Monument in 2004.
The railroad, introduced in 1893 from Holguín, brought Gibara commercial prosperity. It lives now on cattle raising, agriculture, fishing and tourism.
The city, – with its generous, solidary, affectionate and a little proud people -75 thousand inhabitants spread in 630 square Km.–, hosts every year, since 2002, the International Non-Budget Film Festival founded by deceased Cuban moviemaker Humberto Solás.
Calixto García park, old military square.
A replica from the Statue of Liberty, in the center of the Calixto García park, dedicated to mothers.
The Museum for Colonial Arts among the most important collections of the country. 
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The Batería Fernando VII turned Gibara into the second walled city in Cuba to protect the city against the attacks of corsairs and pirates.
Recently, the overnight from September 7, 2008, an ungrateful guest destroyed The Village Blanca: the hurricane Ike.
“Next Internati0nal Non-Budget Film Festival from Humberto Solás will be held in Gibara like previous editions”, said Sergio Benvenuto Solás, its director, in a recent visit to Holguín to do the official launching of the competition, to take place in the Vila Blanca together with some other events from April 13 to 19.
Cuban Actors and actresses, main characters in Solás' movie productions, kept him company: Luisa María Jiménez, Rafael Lahera and Jorge Perugorría. 
It is sort of a homage to Solás after his decease last October, 2008 after the powerful Ike hurricane hit Gibara. So he would have wanted it. 
The Festival aims also at helping economically with Gibara's recovery. Right now concrete projects to benefit settlements nearby the city are being carried out.
Representatives from Mugarik Gabe, an association of the Basque Country with a prize to the best feminine production during the Festival, attended the press conference as well as Luis Alberto González Nieto, ICAIC (Cuban Institute for Art and Movie Industry) vice-president and Aldo Benvenuto, production director of the Festival.
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By Amauris Betancourt.
Gibara –a small, beatiful, sea city north of north-eastern province Holguin, 800 km from Havanna- houses every year the Non-Budget Film Festival. Held this current year from April 15 to 21, for the seventh time, it broke out with a crowded parade, where people and artists mixed throughout Independence street till the city’s central park, topped by a concert by Raul Paz.
Cuban film-makers paraded too.
Puppet Theater from Holguin.
Gibara’s dweller, candles in hand, flanked the parading street.
Solas, the Festival’s director, during inaugurating Speech.
Fireworks during opening ceremony.
Raúl Paz in the inaugurating concert.
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