1989 | Color | A young man is confined to a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child. When he and his family were circus performers, he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"). Back into the present, he escapes and joins his mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge. Country: México, Italia Direction: Jodorowsky; Alejandro Script: Jodorowsky; Alejandro, Leoni; Roberto, Argento; Claudio Production: Argento; Claudio Photography: Nannuzzi; Daniele Sound: Camacho; Roberto Music: Boswell; Simon Cast:Jodorowsky; Axel, Stockwell; Guy, Tixou; Thelma, Dennison; Sabrina, Jodorowsky; Adan, Elenka Tapia; Faviola, Jodorowsky; Teo, Juárez; Jesús, Contreras; Gloria, Guerra; Blanca Art direction: Luna; Alejandro Participation year at FICM: 2013
1989 | Color | A young man is confined to a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child. When he and his family were circus performers, he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"). Back into the present, he escapes and joins his mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge. Country: México, Italia Direction: Jodorowsky; Alejandro Script: Jodorowsky; Alejandro, Leoni; Roberto, Argento; Claudio Production: Argento; Claudio Photography: Nannuzzi; Daniele Sound: Camacho; Roberto Music: Boswell; Simon Cast:Jodorowsky; Axel, Stockwell; Guy, Tixou; Thelma, Dennison; Sabrina, Jodorowsky; Adan, Elenka Tapia; Faviola, Jodorowsky; Teo, Juárez; Jesús, Contreras; Gloria, Guerra; Blanca Art direction: Luna; Alejandro Participation year at FICM: 2013
Endless Poetry Endless Poetry portrays Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940’s and 1950’s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time. He meets Enrique Lihn, Stella Díaz Varín, Nicanor Parra and many other young, promising and unknown artists who would later become titans of Latin America’s literature. See More
The Dance of Reality After 23 years, Alejandro Jodorowsky, filmmaker, writer, actor, painter and pychomagician, returns with this somewhat autobiographical film. Made in his own particular style, the film also stars his three sons. See More
El Topo On their journey across the desert of a symbolic western landscape, the gunman El Topo and his son face a band of fetishists led by a lecherous coronel who keeps a Franciscan congregation terrorized. After killing them, El Topo leaves his son with the monks and goes off in search of the four gun masters—who a woman he loves has convinced him to kill—and is rescued from death by a group of dwarfs and disabled outcasts whom he tries to free. 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
