A one-and-only initiative: Havana’s Meliá Cohiba Hotel opens a Movie Club

The feature presentation of a film entitled “We The Music,” directed by Cuban moviemaker Rogelio Paris, served for the grand opening of a Movie Club at Havana’s Meliá Cohiba Hotel, with flicks to be shown once a month at this tourist facility of the Cuban capital.

A one-of-a-kind club in more than 350 resorts owned by Sol Meliá all around the globe, the Cohiba Movie Club is aiming at becoming a linkage between its guests and Cuba’s filmmaking industry with presentations spanning from the old classics to the latest projects.

As put by Eric Bourdales, general manager of the Meliá Cohiba Hotel, the Movie Club will equally be an opportunity to couple the arts with the finest cuisine. Every month after each feature presentation, there will be a special menu offer carefully designed for the occasion at El Abanico gourmet restaurant.

The opening ceremony of the Movie Club was attended by Alfredo Guevara, founder of ICAIC and chairman of the New Latin American Film Festivals, as well as by filmmaker Rogelio Paris and several foreign diplomats stationed in Cuba.