The Icaro festival is a project created and produced by Casa Comal, Arte y Cultura, an association dedicated to establish a sustainable Central American film industry.
The Icaro festival is the biggest festival of film and television in the Central American region and recognized among the most important film festivals in Latin America.
In 2009, the 12th edition of the Icaro festival is taking place with its annual admission of about 400 films and 25 participating countries.
The Icaro festival is giving attention to presenting topics related with cultural diversity, environment, human rights issues and which are generally leading to the construction of a culture of peace. Furthermore, the Icaro festival is showing the most recent works of Latin American and worldwide cinema.
The Icaro festival started in Guatemala and is now being reproduced in all capital cities in Central America from San Salvador to Panama, showing the best of each year.

An international film festival is like a window on the world for a region or a country and internally it takes part in forming the national identity and encourages multicultural exchange. In return of creating an atmosphere that stimulates production, distribution and audiovisual consumption, and the touristy importance it can gain, in countries with an existing film industry, governments, municipalities, national film institutes and touristy corporations are sustaining and supporting film festivals.
After existing more than a decade, the Icaro Festival has acquired dimensions which are requiring a decisive backing by the state for its maintenance and future development. Casa Comal is recommending a period of transition in order to transfer the Icaro Festival to an institutional committee that is able to sustain continuity.