10 · 24 · 22 FICM Inaugurated Impulso Morelia 8 at the University Cultural Center Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Impulso Morelia 8 was inaugurated at the 20th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), a space that since 2015 has offered a program of Mexican feature films in different stages of editing and post-production with the aim of generating a constructive dialogue on the proposals and offer them international visibility. Andrea Stavenhagen, Daniela Michel The selected feature films will be presented exclusively to a panel of experts that will be made up of Laurent Cantet, one of the most prominent contemporary French filmmakers, winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or for Entre les murs; Daniela Alatorre, producer, director and cultural promoter with solid experience in the documentary film industry and founder of the company No Ficción; Claudia G. Covarrubias, producer and director committed to the creation and dissemination of films with a social and gender perspective, and currently director of production and marketing at Churubusco Azteca Studios; Mathilde Henrot, renowned curator and programmer of major international film festivals and co-founder of the Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro online service; Alessandro Raja, prominent programmer with years of experience in the industry and also co-founder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro; Patricia Riggen, Mexican film and television director with a successful career in the American audiovisual industry; and Kyzza Terrazas, Mexican writer and filmmaker with a relevant career, currently in charge of development and creative production at La Corriente del Golfo. The winners of the awards will be announced at FICM’s closing ceremony. The projects that will make up the Impulso Morelia 8 program are Adiós, amor (fiction, debut film) | Dir. Indra Villaseñor Amador Production: Guillermo Pérez de la Mora, Manuel Elías López Monroy Production Companies: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE). After ten years as an illegal immigrant, Chuy is deported and is forced to return to his original small fishing village in Sinaloa. Drugs and narco have taken over the place and all the inhabitants lead their lives accustomed to violence. Chano, his first love, is now a feared assassin. In the midst of a hostile environment, their romance resurfaces and Chuy must choose between Chano or the life he really wants to lead Buen salvaje (fiction) | Dir. Santiago Mohar Volkow Production: Jonathan Davis Arakelian Production Company: Edge Films Tired of the monotony and lack of adventure in their lives, Jesse and Maggie decide to leave New York and move to a town in northern Mexico, hoping to find the artistic inspiration that they long for. Maggie picks up writing her next novel and Jesse hangs out with the locals in town getting inspiration for his next movie. It is there where the fictions that Maggie and Jesse build begin to mix with the reality that they live La montaña (documentary) | Dir. Diego Enrique Osorno Production: Sandra Godínez, Arturo Sampson, Adán Pérez Production Companies: Detective, Exile Content More than 500 years after Columbus' voyage to America, seven indigenous Mayans from the EZLN sail the Atlantic Ocean to share the story of their resistance in the mountains of Chiapas and seek an awakening of the European social movement drowsy due to the pandemic. A camera on board the boat documents the sea voyage upstream. Lluvia (fiction, debut film) | Dir. Rodrigo García Saiz Production: Paola Cortés, Araceli Velázquez, Alberto Müffelmann Production Company: Central Films Six stories, different characters that travel through the streets of Mexico City, persecuted by intermittent rain, and absorbed in daily despair. However, each one faces an unforeseen moment, a strange, bright, or absurd event that reveals who they are. After these unusual moments, they plunge back into the confusion of the days. Mi Benjamín (documentary) | Dir. Victoria Clay Mendoza Production: Marion d’Ornano Production Company: CIMA The last year in the career of Benjamin Pech, Etoile dancer of the Paris Opera. It's a story about the decline of his body and the end of his career as a dancer. About the elegance with which he bids farewell to the stage and in a way to his athletic body because he is injured and will never be able to jump again. Sueño mexicano (fiction) | Dir. Laura Plancarte Production: Laura Plancarte, Iván Trujillo Production Companies: LP Films, TV UNAM After an abusive relationship, Malena packed up and went to Mexico City looking for a better life, but lost custody of her children. Today she has a new partner and is finishing her house where she dreams of living with her children and a new baby. Male needs to undergo invitro fertilization to make this happen. If she succeeds, she will give up her job as a domestic worker to start a business and get the family that she always dreamed of. Tzofo (documentary, debut film) | Dir. Salvador Martínez Production: Salvador Martínez Production Company: Películas Enramada During countless personal battles, Juliana, an Otomi peasant and cook, through deep introspection, harvests one of the best crops of her life: her triumph of herself.
