2022 | Color | 83:00 Two Mexican migrants, a young man serving a life sentence in prison and a filmmaker who was his court interpreter, become intertwined through life and cinema. Direction: Reyes; Rodrigo Script: Reyes; Rodrigo Production: Reyes; Rodrigo, Kim; Su, Cordera; Inti Photography: Mejía; Alejandro, AMC Sound: García; Ruy Music: Lieberman; Jacobo Cast:Reyes; Gerardo, González Andrade; Antonio, Andrade; Miguel Art direction: Borboa; Aldo Participation year at FICM: 2022
2022 | Color | 83:00 Two Mexican migrants, a young man serving a life sentence in prison and a filmmaker who was his court interpreter, become intertwined through life and cinema. Direction: Reyes; Rodrigo Script: Reyes; Rodrigo Production: Reyes; Rodrigo, Kim; Su, Cordera; Inti Photography: Mejía; Alejandro, AMC Sound: García; Ruy Music: Lieberman; Jacobo Cast:Reyes; Gerardo, González Andrade; Antonio, Andrade; Miguel Art direction: Borboa; Aldo Participation year at FICM: 2022
Querida Fátima A decade after her 12-year-old daughter Fátima was murdered in a brutal feminicide, Lorena Gutiérrez sets up camp outside of Mexico’s National Palace, demanding an audience with the country’s first female president. Directed collectively and led by Lorena herself, this visceral portrait captures the intersection of personal grief and political resistance in a country where according to the United Nations, 10 women and girls are murdered everyday. See More
Sanson and Me Over the course of seven years of sharing letters and visiting him, Sanson and me have collaborated on a script for a series of reenactments narrating his tragic life story, spanning his childhood as a poor orphan in Mexico to his struggles to survive as a teenager in rural California. Slowly, the film begins to grow into an expansive portrait of the systemic failures impacting Sansón’s life as well as our developing friendship. See More
499 Year 2021 marks five centuries since Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire. 499 retraces the Spanish army’s route from Veracruz to Mexico City, following a fictional conquistador lost in modern times. Blending fact and fiction into a striking cinematic journey, 499 speaks to the ghosts of colonialism and their lingering presence in the issues facing contemporary Mexican reality. See More
Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26 LA MUERTE ES TEMPORAL, EL AMOR ES ETERNO A Short by Cerveza Victoria Celebrating Day of the Dead at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26
LA MUERTE ES TEMPORAL, EL AMOR ES ETERNO A Short by Cerveza Victoria Celebrating Day of the Dead at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26
