04 · 24 · 09

6th. Morelia Film Festitval winners at Cannes

The Morelia Film Festival consolidates its partnership with the Semaine Internationale de la Critique (SIC), the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, having a special screening of our sixth edition winners at the 48th Semaine Internationale de la Critique. The films, selected by the SIC, are: La canción de los niños muertos by David Pablos, in the category for Best Fiction Short Film; Jacinta by Karla Castañeda, Best Animation Short Film; Zoogocho by Bernardo Arellano, Best Documentary Short Film and Roma by Elisa Miller, García Bross Award.

FICM has, since its first edition, a strong partnership agreement with SIC in which new talents who are discovered in both festivals can cross borders and have a special exhibition both in Morelia and Cannes. Each year, FICM exhibits a selection of films from SIC, and some of the winner films from the last edition of FICM are shown in Cannes.

The 48th SIC will be held from May 14th to the 22nd, with the mission to discover and promote new talents in the international film industry. This year the films that will make up the official program are the following:

Feature films

• Huacho by Alejandro Fernández Almendras (Chile / France / Germany)
• Ordinary People by Vladimir Perisic (Serbia / France)
• Lost Persons Area by Caroline Strubbe (Belgium)
• Adieu Gary de Nassim Amaouche (France)
• Mal día para pescar (Bad Day to Go Fishing) by Alvaro Brechner (Uruguay / Spain)
• Sirta la gal ba (Whisper with the Wind) by Shahram Alidi (Irak)
• Altiplano de Peter Brosens by Jessica Woodworth (Belgium / Germany / Netherlands)

Cortometrajes

• Together by Eicke Bettinga (Germany / UK)
• Noche adentro by Pablo Lamar (Paraguay)
• Runaway by Cordell Barker (Canada)
• C’est gratuit pour les filles by Marie Amachoukeli & Claire Burger (Francie)
• Tulum (La virée) by Dalibor Matanic (Croatia)
• Logorama de François Alaux, Hervé by Crécy, Ludovic Houplain (H5) (Francie)
• Slitage (Seeds of the Fall) by Patrick Eklund (Sweden)

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

Cinépolis has been handing out for 5 years the Semaine Internationale de la Critique Grand Prize which consists of 5, 000 euros. It is given out on the last night of the Festival.

Some of the past winners of this award include:

• Snow by Aida Begic (Bosnia - Herzegovine, Germany, France, Iran, 2008)
• XXY by Lucía Puenzo (Argentina, 2007),
• Les Amitiés maléfiquesby Emmanuel Bourdieu (FrancE, 2006),
• Me and you and everybody we know by Miranda July (USA, 2005),
• Brodeuses by Éléonore Faucher (France, 2004),
• Or (Món tresor) by Keren Yedara (France-Israel, 2004)

The past winners of FICM that have been shown in Cannes are:

• FICM 2004: De Raíz by Carlos Carrera (Best Animation Short Film); El Pasajero by Matías Meyer (Best Fiction Short Film) and Trópico de Cáncer by Eugenio Polgovsky (Best Documentary).
• FICM 2005 Toro negro by Pedro González-Rubio and Carlos Armella (Best Documentary) and David by Roberto Fiesco Trejo (Best Fiction Short Film).
• FICM 2006En el cielo como en la tierra by Natalia López (Best Experimental Short Film) and La Palomilla Salvaje by Gustavo Gamou (Best Documentary Short Film).
• FICM 2006 Mi Vida Dentro by Lucía Gajá (Best Documentary) and Peces Plátano by Natalia Beristain Egurrola (Best Short Film).

Some other Mexican filmmakers whose work has been shown in SIC are: Fernando Eimbcke, winner of the Premio Tequila Tradicional in the sixth edition of FICM; Rodrigo Plá, who was official selection of the fifth edition of FICM for La Zona; Gael García Bernal who presented his first work, Déficit in SIC and the fifth edition of FICM; García Bernal also was a Mexican ambassador in SIC 2007, and Gerardo Naranjo, official selection of the fourth edition of FICM with Drama/Mex.

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