2024 | Color | 28:30 Amelia Aquino, 97 years old, is the last traditional potter of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, a town once known in the region for its beautiful clay pots and jugs. Amelia struggles to keep her millenary craft alive in the face of the assaults of modernity. Her life is an inspiring story of resilience, illustrating the current situation of indigenous peoples and their strategies of resistance through the wisdom that comes from listening to the Earth. Country: México Direction: Mier y Terán Giménez Cacho; Diego Production: Barrera Suárez; Kythzia Photography: Saavedra Castro; Julio César, Caballero; Edson Sound: Diez; Eloísa Music: Vargas Aquino; Ignacio Cast:Aquino; Amelia, Pérez Pérez; Rodolfo Participation year at FICM: 2024
2024 | Color | 28:30 Amelia Aquino, 97 years old, is the last traditional potter of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, a town once known in the region for its beautiful clay pots and jugs. Amelia struggles to keep her millenary craft alive in the face of the assaults of modernity. Her life is an inspiring story of resilience, illustrating the current situation of indigenous peoples and their strategies of resistance through the wisdom that comes from listening to the Earth. Country: México Direction: Mier y Terán Giménez Cacho; Diego Production: Barrera Suárez; Kythzia Photography: Saavedra Castro; Julio César, Caballero; Edson Sound: Diez; Eloísa Music: Vargas Aquino; Ignacio Cast:Aquino; Amelia, Pérez Pérez; Rodolfo Participation year at FICM: 2024
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
