Havana, December 5 (RHC)-- In a development that has Cuban film lovers amazed, for the first time in the history of Havana's International New Latin American Cinema Festival, the event's program is including a selection of successful documentaries by the U.S. television network HBO.

The Infanta Multicinema Hall in Havana will screen five HBO titles on various subjects. Scheduled for this Saturday night, the documentary “Sinatra: All or Nothing at All” by Alex Gibney is opening up the sample. Then on Sunday, in the second of HBO documentaries being screened, the Havana public will exposed to “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” also by Alex Gibney.

On Monday, the Festival exhibit “Mariela Castro's March: LGBT Cuba's Revolution,” by Jon Alpert. “At the time, I wasn’t aware of what they weren’t doing around gay rights,” Alpert has said, adding that his documentary seeks to set the record straight on what Cuba is doing in the matter.

In addition to the HBO documentary screenings in Havana, HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins will give a lecture on Monday. And HBO's Chief Executive Officer Richard Plepler and its president of programming Michael Lombardo will hold a discussion on the creative process and the media landscape in the United States.