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Mexican Cinema (and politics) stand out in Toulouse

Las lágrimas by Pablo Delgado Sánchez, part of the FICM 2012’s Official Selection and recently shown in Rotterdam and Cartagena, will compete in Toulouse’s fiction category; along with Tanta agua by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge, which recently won the Knight Grand Jury Prize at the Miami International Film Festival.

The documentary competition includes Cuates de Australia by Everardo González, part of FICM's 2012 Official Selection, which continues playing in theaters in Mexico City. Finally, Don Sabás by Juan Manuel Zuñiga, also selected at the 2012 FICM, will compete in Toulouse’s short film category. The best success for the filmmakers in competition!

Out of competition, the Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine of Toulouse will show the video art pieces Efectos de familia (2007-2009), Espantapájaros (2009), The Trampa (2011), Ley Fuga (2010), and Matamoros (2009) by the Mexican artist Edgardo Aragón in a retrospective dedicated to his work.

Four Mexican films will participate in the Panorama Otra Mirada section of Toulouse: Fogo by Yulene Olaizola, part of FICM's 2012 Official Selection; Los mejores temas (2010) by Nicolás Pereda, presented out of competition at the FICM 2012; Mai moriré by Enrique Rivero; and Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas, which had its Mexican premiere at the tenth FICM.

In the Panorama Fiction section, the French audience will be able to see Chalán by Jorge Michel Grau, presented at a special screening at the 2012 FICM, and El sueño de Lú by Hari Sama, winner of a Special Mention for a Mexican Feature Film at the 2011 FICM.

The Panorama (Re)view section includes El premio by Paula Markovitch, Best  Mexican Feature Film at the 2011 FICM, Después de Lucía by Michel Franco, and the documentary Música para después de un asalto by Samuel Guzmán Cuevas and Juan Felipe Guzmán Cuevas.

The Panorama Documentary section will show Aún nos queda el recuerdo by Mariano Rentería Garnica, a short film which received a Special Mention from the Jury at the 2012 FICM. Other documentaries which were part of the FICM’s program that will be presented in Toulouse 2013 are: Miradas múltiples (La máquina loca) by Emilio Maillé; Paal by Christoph Müller and Victor Vargas Villafuerte, and Ríos de hombres by Tin Dirdamal (2011 Official Selection). The Mexican documentaries El jardín de Raúl by Sarasvati Herrera and Reality 2.0 by Víctor Ramírez Orozco will also be present in Toulouse.

The Mexican film Canoa (1976) by Felipe Cazals will be shown in the Panorama Associations section, along with a group of documentaries that are part of “El Cambuche”, Toulouse’s selection of Latin American cinema of social resistance. The Panorama Associations section also includes the documentaries Los invisibles (2010), directed by Marc Silver and Gael García Bernal, and Santísima Trinidad by José Luis Soto Ruvalcaba, as well as a series of “videocartas” (video correspondence) created by a small community of Oaxaca with the help of the Ojo de Agua Comunicación.

The documentary Tlatelolco, las claves de la masacre (2003) by Carlos Mendoza is part of Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine of Toulouse’s section dedicated to dictatorship and state violence. The festival will also grant a space to the theme of migration, where the fiction films Jean Gentil (2010) by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas, and Sin nombre (2009) by Cary Fukunaga will be screened.

You can learn more about the 25 Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine of Toulouse in its official site: www.cinelatino.com.fr