The show "Fantasy and Illusion" by the Cuban Magic Theater Company from Camagüey won the grand prize at the Ánfora 2025 Magic Festival. By the time the announcement was made at the closing gala, all the participants had long known they were all winners.

Las Tunas, Cuba.– This, of course, doesn't diminish the Camagüey group's achievement, nor the second and third places for "Immortality" (Magic Hurricane, Las Tunas) and "Domo" (a one-man show by magician Henry, from Havana), respectively. But it does make it clear that “Ánfora 2025” was much more than that.

It was a festival of love and resilience. At least that's what we gathered from the audience when we heard more than one magician ask for the microphone to thank the Las Tunas audience —"the best in all of Cuba," they said— and cheer for the resilience of the event, unique of their kind in the country.

Several couldn't make it because "they're bedridden with that virus going around;” others arrived with severe joint pain, in the midst of recovery. Even with their discomfort, they took to the stage because that's what art is: dedication and sacrifice.

In the card magic category, the prize went to Rey David Veitía (Las Tunas); in grand illusions, Rodelay León Figueredo (Las Tunas) stood out; in manipulation, Julio César Véliz (Las Tunas); and Eduardo Cintra Gómez (Camagüey) was the winner in small illusions.

The best female performance was awarded to Anayaris Camila Suárez Cisneros (Las Tunas), and in comedy magic, Emilio Javier Rodríguez Galindo, from Camagüey, deserved the prize.

The participants announced their commitment to the next edition, and the Organizing Committee assured that the effort will be no less so that “Ánfora” continues to regain the prominence that the magic so desperately needs; that magic that inhabits Las Tunas every November with airs of distinction.