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Mexican Cinema at Anthology Film Archives in New YorK

Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on independent, experimental and avant-garde audiovisual products. Founded in 1969 by Jonas Mekas, Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka and Stan Brakhage, Anthology was conceived with the intention of protecting and defining cinema as art, rather than disposable entertainment.

From September 6 to 12, this legendary forum will provide a space for contemporary Mexican cinema, screening nine films by some of the most innovative directors working in Mexico today (eight of which have been shown in FICM). This program is the second part of the Genmex series: Recent Films From Mexico, presented in autumn of 2011, and organized by Anthology Film Archives with the support of Cinema Tropical and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

The films that will be screened are:

• Los mejores temas, by Nicolás Pereda (presented at a special function at FICM 2012)
• Después de Lucía, by Michel Franco
• Mitote, by Eugenio Polgovsky (Special Mention FICM 2012)
• Fogo, by Yulene Olaizola (Official Selection FICM 2012)
• Inori, by Pedro González-Rubio (Best Feature Documentary FICM 2012)
• Malaventura, by Michel Lipkes (Special Mention FICM 2011)
• El lenguaje de los machetes, by Kyzza Terrazas (Official Selection FICM 2011)
• Halley, by Sebastián Hofmann (Official Selection FICM 2012)
• No quiero dormir sola, by Natalia Beristain (Best Fiction Feature FICM 2012)

In the past decade, a generation of emerging filmmakers of our country has produced impressive and internationally recognized works. For Anthology Film Archives, the Genmex series: Part II is proof that this wave of Mexican cinema is not a passing phenomenon.

If you can attend, check out the complete program: here.