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Parallel Activities

The congress will be held Thursday, Oct. 1 to Saturday, Oct. 3 at the recently restored Palacio Clavijero and the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo. More than 120 researchers from 13 countries will participate in the event, offering a program without precedent in Mexico for international exchange on film theory and analysis.

?There will be round tables on Mexican film, women in film, gay film, documentaries, theory of film, adaptation, cultural identities, Shakespeare, Hitchcock,? Ramey explained.

Conaculta and Educal will also organize a book fair. ?Academic books on film will be on sale,? he said. ?The fair will be at the Palacio Clavijero.?

Ramey also announced that among the academic activities, the Mexican Institute of Cinematographic and Humanistic Research will be inaugurated on Friday, Oct. 2. ?The Institute offers the first bachelor?s degree in film and humanistic studies in Mexico,? he said.