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Cinepolis will hand out Grand Prize

Past winners have been:

Snow by Aida Begic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France and Iran, 2008)

XXY  by Lucía Puenzo (Argentina, 2007)

Les Amitiés maléfiques by Emmanuel Bourdieu (France, 2006)

Me and you and everybody we know by Miranda July (United States, 2005)

Or (Món tresor) by Keren Yedara (France-Israel, 2004)

Daniela Michel, director of Morelia International Film Festival, will award the prize tomorrow before the traditional party that FICM hosts every year called La ultima noche.

Since it´ s first edition in 2003, FICM started to consolidate a partnership with SIC. The alliance, which started formally in 2005, includes the exhibition in Morelia of the best productions of the SIC and SIC showing in Cannes the winner short films of the Mexican film festival.

SIC has discovered talents such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Wong Kar Wai, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Gaspar Noé, François Ozon, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro and Julie Bertuccelli, hmong many others who have presented their first Works and second movies in this competition section.