FICM Announces the Official Selection of its 23rd edition!

-PRESS RELEASE-

 

 

Mexico City, August 15, 2025.

 

 

FICM Announces the 

Official Selection of its 23rd edition!

 

Since 2003, the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) has worked tirelessly to promote the work of Mexican filmmakers through it’s Official Selection, which is made up entirely by Mexican films.

This year, FICM is pleased to announce that 101 films make up the competition for the 23rd edition of the festival: 15 works in the Michoacán Section (13 short films and 2 feature films), 61 works in the Mexican Short Film Section (16 animated, 14 documentary, and 31 fiction), 14 works in the Mexican Documentary Section, and 11 works in the Mexican Feature Film Section.

Among the films selected to compete for the awards to be given by the jury and the audience of the 23rd FICM are En el camino / On the Road, by David Pablos, which also will compete in the Horizons section of the Venice International Film Festival; El diablo fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja) / The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box), by Ernesto Martínez Bucio, winner of the Best Debut Award at the last edition of the Berlin International Film Festival; Olmo / Elm, by Fernando Eimbcke, produced by Plan B Entertainment, under its micro budget film finance initiative; Vainilla / Vanilla, by Mayra Hermosillo, which will compete as well in the Giornate degli Autori, a parallel section of the Venice Film Festival; and Juana, the directorial debut of the Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho, who was the lead actor of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo (2022). 

FICM’s winning short films and documentaries are automatically considered for an Oscar® nomination. We are the first Mexican festival to receive this guarantee from the Academy. 

#FICM2025 will be held from October 10 to 19 with in-person screenings in Morelia, Michoacán, and virtual screenings via nuestrocine.mx. There will be pre-opening screenings on October 9, and the opening screening will take place on October 10.

The 23rd FICM Official Selection is as follows:

MICHOACÁN SECTION

Short film

  1. 5 pasos (para una despedida) / 5 Steps (For a farewell) | Julio César Rubio
  2. Aki | David Buitrón Fernández
  3. Aún somos lo que dijimos / We remain what we once said | Andrés Alonso Ayala
  4. Las aves de prometeo / The Birds of Prometheus | Omar Guadalupe Martínez Adame
  5. Cabeza de pez / Fishhead | Ximena Rodríguez
  6. Chico no llora / Chico | Miguel Valdés
  7. Corolario / Corollary | Luz Barragán
  8. Mo patiaj / Curación / Healing | Raúl Máximo Cortés
  9. Si yo fuese fuego / If I Were Fire |Bruno Aroesty Garnica
  10. Sin soltarte, dejarte ir / Holding on, letting you go | Ángel Olivares
  11. Tiempos de lluvia / Rainy Season | Rocío Ortiz Aguilar
  12. Ventura 429 | Paula Ollivier Ortiz
  13. Ya no sé si vivo en un recuerdo / I Don't Know If I Live in a Memory | César Flores Correa

Feature Film

  1. Apenas primavera / Barely Spring | Rafael Martínez-García
  2. Entre sones, abajeños y oberturas / Among sones, abajeños and overtures | Ingrid Franco

MEXICAN SHORT FILM SECTION 

Animation

  1. Cama Baldía / Barren Slumber | Dani Herrera
  2. Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado / As If the Earth Had Swallowed Them Up | Natalia León
  3. Criatura / Creature | Nitya Ramlogan López
  4. De ayer a luego / From Yesterday to Later | Diego Solano Flores
  5. Desdoblándome / Unfolding myself | Natalia Pájaro
  6. El tono del mar / The Color of the Sea | Mica Bolaños Meade
  7. Hasta pronto / See You Soon | Jennifer Skarbnik López
  8. La carretera de los perros / The Dogs' Highway | Carlos Rueda
  9. Melodía feral / Feral Melody | Juan Paulín
  10. Shapes of Us | Aranza Bergés Navarrete, Emilio Terrazas Rocha
  11. Te prometo violencia / I Promise You Violence | Juan María León
  12. Teatro secreto / Secret Theatre | Diego Martínez Gutierréz
  13. Toby | Inés Haro Carmona
  14. Un paseo para Emilio / A Ride for Emilio | Miguel Anaya Borja
  15. Una parvada de estruendo / A Flock of Thunder | Mariana Mendivil
  16. Wing Shop | Andrea León Gutiérrez, Gabriela Rojas Bustos, Sascha Schmit

Documentary

  1. Cremita de coco / Coconut Cream | Martha Uc
  2. En algún lugar dentro de mí / Somewhere Within Me | Andoeni Padilla
  3. Hasta que Dios se acuerde de nosotros / Until God Remembers Us | Víctor Cartas Valdivia, Jesus André González Arias, Isabella Belén Hernández Sánchez
  4. Ilhuícatl Nextli / Lo que el cielo sueña / Heavenly Dream | José Ángel Tomasis Briseño
  5. La mar / The Sea | Jean Chapiro Uziel
  6. Mujer de barro / Clay Woman | Concepción Vásquez
  7. Naiki Weeria. Ka gotti ba´a betuk luula / Capítulo 4. Por debajo del agua / Chapter 4. Benath the waves | Zyanya López Arámburo
  8. La piel de nuestra memoria / Our Memory Skin | Edmundo U. Galicia Aguirre
  9. Senderos / Paths | Fernanda Labastida
  10. Sol de agua / Water Sun | Mariana Dianela Torres
  11. El sueño de Kamal / The Kamal's Dream | Miguel J. Crespo
  12. Tei Mɨayema | Antonio Vega Flores
  13. Venero / Fount | Tania Ximena Ruiz
  14. Las voces del despeñadero / Voices From the Abyss | Irving Serrano, Victor Rejón

Fiction

  1. 40+ | Yolanda Cruz
  2. Al borde del volcán / At the Edge of the Volcano | Jorge Granados Ross
  3. Amare | Balam Toscano
  4. Año de casados / A Year of Marriage | Pablo Camargo López
  5. Camelia | Anabel Caso
  6. Cartografía / Cartography | Marinthia Gutiérrez Velazco
  7. Casa chica / Other Family | Lau Charles
  8. Cráter / Crater | Valentina Cabado Parcero
  9. Domingo familiar / Family Sunday | Gerardo Del Razo
  10. El fin de los tiempos / The End of Times | Diego Guareño Genesta
  11. El sarape / The Sarape | María Fernanda Prieto
  12. Era más grande la tierra / The Earth Was Larger | Carlos A. Pineda
  13. Gasolina / Gasoline | Víctor Duarte
  14. Intervalo / Interval | Roberto Fiesco
  15. La cascada / The Cascade | Pablo Delgado
  16. La era de las plantas con flor / The Age of Flowering Plants | Magaly Ugarte de Pablo
  17. La infalible (y otros éxitos) / Lost for Words | Daniel Carrera Pasternac
  18. La miel inmaculada / The Immaculate Honey | Mauricio Calderón Rico
  19. Mácula | Nirvana Alfonso
  20. Malos tiempos / Bad Times | Carina Mira
  21. Matagatos / Catkiller | Isabel Vaca, Arturo Mendicuti
  22. Mon amour / My Love | Alfonso Pineda Ulloa
  23. Oc ni temiki / Sigo soñando / Still Dreaming | Misael Alva
  24. Paloma | Raul Martínez Liera
  25. Persona a persona / Person to Person | Ricardo V. Schott
  26. Sábana blanca / White Blanket | Juan Daniel González Trujillo
  27. Techiq | Missael Sánchez Arce
  28. Tiempo de híbridos o Twenty-Six New Gasoline Stations in Mexico / Time of Hybrids or Twenty-Six New Gasoline Stations in Mexico | Jorge Eduardo Franco Castillo
  29. Toque reglamentario / Regulatory Touch | Ana Cecilia Sandoval
  30. Traigan de vuelta al tigre / Bring Back the Tiger | Daniela Schneider
  31. Una torreta en llamas / A Burning Turret | Humberto Flores Jáuregui

MEXICAN DOCUMENTARY FILM SECTION

  1. Àvia, el jardín de la memoria / Àvia, Garden of Memories | Rodrigo Ímaz
  2. Backside | Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana
  3. Binnizá, los seres de las nubes / Binniza, the Beings of the Clouds | Juan Carlos Rulfo
  4. Boca Vieja | Yovegami Ascona Mora
  5. Brigada 2045 / Brigade 2045 | Olivia Luengas
  6. Hasta un momento más tarde / Chú siné paché Ba / In a Little While Later | Pablo Tamez Sierra
  7. Llamarse Olimpia / Being Olimpia | Indira Cato
  8. Los que dicen ¡no! / Those Who Say No! | Ángel Froilán Flores Martínez
  9. Miraba caer las gotas iluminadas por los relámpagos, y cada que respiraba, suspiraba, y cada vez que pensaba, pensaba en ti / I Watched Drops Fall, Lit by Lightning, and Every Time I Breathed, I Sighed, and Every Time I Thought, I Thought of You | José de Jesús Gutiérrez García
  10. Niñxs / Kids | Kani Lapuerta
  11. Niños Héroes / Heroic Cadets  | Emilio Maillé
  12. Papá Melissa | Sophia Stieglitz
  13. Los sueños que compartimos / The Dreams We Share | Valentina Leduc Navarro
  14. Vidas en la orilla / Lives on the Border | Lucía Gajá

MEXICAN FEATURE FILM SECTION

  1. Adiós, amor / Goodbye, Love | Indra Villaseñor Amador
  2. Los amantes se despiden con la mirada / Lovers bid farewell with their eyes | Rigoberto Perezcano
  3. Ángeles | Paula Markovitch
  4. En el camino / On the Road | David Pablos
  5. El diablo fuma (y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja) The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) | Ernesto Martínez Bucio
  6. El guardián / The Guardian | Nuria Ibáñez
  7. Juana | Daniel Giménez Cacho
  8. La reserva / The Reserve | Pablo Pérez Lombardini
  9. Si no ardemos, cómo iluminar la noche / If We Don't Burn How Do We Light Up the Night | Kim Torres
  10. Olmo / Elm | Fernando Eimbcke
  11. Vainilla / Vanilla | Mayra Hermosillo

About the Morelia International Film Festival

Founded in 2003 and considered one of the most important film festivals in Latin America, FICM is an incomparable meeting point for the national and international film community and the public.

Over the course of 23 years, the Festival has presented 1,500 Mexican filmmakers competing in the Official Selection, 5,500 films, 8,000 screenings, around 2 million in-person attendees, and over 3 million virtual attendees.

Since 2018, the Morelia International Film Festival has presented the Artistic Excellence Award to renowned film personalities such as Alfonso Cuarón, Robert Redford, Claire Denis, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Willem Dafoe, Jodie Foster and Francis Ford Coppola. 

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