2018 | B/N | 135:00 The most personal project to date from director and writer Alfonso Cuarón, Roma chronicles a turbulent year in the lives of a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world. A vivid portrayal of domestic strife and social hierarchy amid political turmoil, Roma follows a young domestic worker of Mixteco heritage, Cleo, and her co-worker Adela, also Mixteca, who work for a small family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma. A mother of four, Sofía copes with the extended absence of her husband; Cleo faces her own devastating news that threatens to distract her from caring for Sofía’s children, whom she loves as her own. While trying to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined, Cleo and Sofía quietly wrestle with changes infiltrating the family home in a country facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and student demonstrators. Filmed in luminous black and white, Roma is an intimate, gut-wrenching, and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the ways, small and large, one family maintains its balance in a time of personal, social, and political strife. Direction: Cuarón; Alfonso Script: Cuarón; Alfonso Production: Célis; Nicolás, Cuarón; Alfonso, Rodríguez; Gabriela Photography: Cuarón; Alfonso Sound: Díaz; Sergio, Henighan; Craig, García; José Antonio, Lievsay; Skip Cast:Aparicio; Yalitza, Graf; Marco, Demesa; Daniela, Peralta; Carlos, de Tavira; Marina, García; Nancy Art direction: Caballero; Eugenio Participation year at FICM: 2018
2018 | B/N | 135:00 The most personal project to date from director and writer Alfonso Cuarón, Roma chronicles a turbulent year in the lives of a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Cuarón, inspired by the women from his childhood, delivers an artful ode to the matriarchy that shaped his world. A vivid portrayal of domestic strife and social hierarchy amid political turmoil, Roma follows a young domestic worker of Mixteco heritage, Cleo, and her co-worker Adela, also Mixteca, who work for a small family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma. A mother of four, Sofía copes with the extended absence of her husband; Cleo faces her own devastating news that threatens to distract her from caring for Sofía’s children, whom she loves as her own. While trying to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined, Cleo and Sofía quietly wrestle with changes infiltrating the family home in a country facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and student demonstrators. Filmed in luminous black and white, Roma is an intimate, gut-wrenching, and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the ways, small and large, one family maintains its balance in a time of personal, social, and political strife. Direction: Cuarón; Alfonso Script: Cuarón; Alfonso Production: Célis; Nicolás, Cuarón; Alfonso, Rodríguez; Gabriela Photography: Cuarón; Alfonso Sound: Díaz; Sergio, Henighan; Craig, García; José Antonio, Lievsay; Skip Cast:Aparicio; Yalitza, Graf; Marco, Demesa; Daniela, Peralta; Carlos, de Tavira; Marina, García; Nancy Art direction: Caballero; Eugenio Participation year at FICM: 2018
Disclaimer A gripping psychological thriller in seven chapters, starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, Disclaimer is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets. See More
Disclaimer A gripping psychological thriller in seven chapters, starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. Written and directed by five-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, Disclaimer is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets. See More
Y tu mamá también Two teenagers from different social classes see their girlfriends off to Italy for the summer and are then bewitched by an alluring Spanish woman whom they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to the beach, the three form an intense and sensual bond that will ultimately strip them bare, both physically and emotionally. 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
