1985 | Color | 21 min A film portrait that introduces us to the work and universe of a unique woman, Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917-1990), who lived each stage of her life to the fullest, from a childhood branded by kinship with the British royalty, to her arrival in Mexico in the 1950´s, where she joined the local surrealist group after having worked as a model and editor for Vogue in New York. Country: México Direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Script: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Photography: Duhne; Martha Sound: Díez Díaz; Ana Cast:Bate Tichenor; Bridget Participation year at FICM: 2008
1985 | Color | 21 min A film portrait that introduces us to the work and universe of a unique woman, Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917-1990), who lived each stage of her life to the fullest, from a childhood branded by kinship with the British royalty, to her arrival in Mexico in the 1950´s, where she joined the local surrealist group after having worked as a model and editor for Vogue in New York. Country: México Direction: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Script: Makhlouf Akl; Tufic Photography: Duhne; Martha Sound: Díez Díaz; Ana Cast:Bate Tichenor; Bridget Participation year at FICM: 2008
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
The last witness 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. See More
Sundance Film Festival CDMX 2025: ABEL, HEROD'S LAW and more 05 · 29 · 25 Four 22nd FICM short films presented at the 64th Cannes Critics’ Week got a special screening in Paris 05 · 26 · 25 FICM presented four Mexican short films in a special screening at the 64th Critics' Week at Cannes 05 · 22 · 25 Aurora Clavel (1936-2025) and TARAHUMARA (ALWAYS FURTHER ON) 05 · 22 · 25
Four 22nd FICM short films presented at the 64th Cannes Critics’ Week got a special screening in Paris 05 · 26 · 25
FICM presented four Mexican short films in a special screening at the 64th Critics' Week at Cannes 05 · 22 · 25
