2016 | B/N | 26:24 Leon Trotsky was granted political asylum in Mexico in 1937 after escaping Stalinist persecution. He lived in the neighborhood of Coyoacán, in Mexico City, where he wrote his last political works. His grandson Esteban Volkow is the last living witness of the two murder attempts and eventual assassination of his grandfather. Ninety-year-old Esteban recounts family life at the house, now a museum, and shares his memories of the revolutionary figure’s tragic end. Direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Script: Mirabal; Enrique R. Production: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Photography: Morales; René Sound: Ramírez; Francisco Cast:Volkov Bronstein; Esteban Art direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Participation year at FICM: 2017
2016 | B/N | 26:24 Leon Trotsky was granted political asylum in Mexico in 1937 after escaping Stalinist persecution. He lived in the neighborhood of Coyoacán, in Mexico City, where he wrote his last political works. His grandson Esteban Volkow is the last living witness of the two murder attempts and eventual assassination of his grandfather. Ninety-year-old Esteban recounts family life at the house, now a museum, and shares his memories of the revolutionary figure’s tragic end. Direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Script: Mirabal; Enrique R. Production: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Photography: Morales; René Sound: Ramírez; Francisco Cast:Volkov Bronstein; Esteban Art direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Participation year at FICM: 2017
Bridget Tichenor. Visiones reales In 2012, the Museum of Mexico City holds a major posthumous exhibition on Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917-1990), an English painter based in Mexico. Her friends, the artists Alan Glass and Pedro Friedeberg, visit the exhibition and comment on aspects of her work and life, such as her closeness to the European aristocracy and her time as a model and editor of Vogue in New York. She painted for 20 years on her ranch in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán. See More
Wolfgang Paalen. Cristales de la mente The artist Wolfgang Paalen was born in Vienna in 1905. In 1936, he joined the Parisian Surrealist movement led by André Breton. At the invitation of Frida Kahlo, he settled in Mexico in 1939. As a painter, he underwent several stylistic stages and had a profound influence on the genesis of abstract expressionism. He committed suicide in 1959 in Taxco, Mexico. See More
FASCINATION: 'Made in France' by Alan Glass The last living surrealist, Alan Glass, known for his boxes and assemblages, found in flea markets of Paris and Mexico the material for creating. From his youth, he consolidated his fascination for everything 'made in France'. Now, the artist show us their findings in nearly 60 years in an intimate, surprising and eventful display of nostalgia for a vanished world of perfumes, fans, labels and souvenirs surviving thanks to his artistic work. 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
