01 · 25 · 16 Presence of Mexican Cinema at Rotterdam Film Festival, 2016 Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard The 45th edition of the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) will take place from the 27th January – 7th February, 2016. This year’s program includes five Mexican titles, including the winner of the Award for First or Second Feature Film at the 13th edition of FICM: Eliza Miller’s El placer es mío / The Pleasure is Mine. Congratulations! All five Mexican productions at this year’s IFFR will screen in the Bright Future section, which is dedicated to emerging talents, and films that demonstrate a unique vision and style. El placer es mío is the fourth of Miller’s films to be presented at Rotterdam: in 2008 she screened her short film Roma; in 2010 her feature fiction debut Vete más lejos Alicia / Alicia, Go Yonder, and in 2014 her feature documentary About Sarah. El placer es mío / The Pleasure is Mine by Elisa Miller. IFFR 2016 will also include the work for three further Mexican directors who have participated at FICM: Emiliano Rocher Minter, whose short fiction film Dentro / Inside (2012) was part of the 10th FICM’s Official Selection, will present his feature film Tenemos la carne / We Are the Flesh, a co-production between Mexico and France. This is the second of Rocher Minter’s film that will screen at Rotterdam; Dentro was also selected in 2013. Director and photographer Fernanda Romandía will also present her debut feature film Pacífico / Pacific. Romandía has participated at FICM with two short films: Por orden de aparición / By Order of Appearance (2007) and Fénix (2007), the latter of which won the award for Best Short Film at FICM’s 5th edition. Finally, Nicolás Pereda, who has had work in five editions of FICM - including his first feature film ¿Dónde están sus historias? / Where Are Their Stories (2007), which won the prize for Best Mexican Feature at the 5th edition of FICM – will show his medium-length film Minotauro / Minotaur in Rotterdam this year. Minotauro is the fourth of Pereda’s films to participate at IFFR. Others include: Verano de Goliat / Summer of Goliath (2010); Todo, en fin, el silencio lo ocupaba / All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (2010), and the short film Entrevista con la tierra / Interview with the Earth (2008). The last representative of Mexican cinema to screen in IFFR’s Bright Future section is the Ecuadorian/French/Mexican co-production Alba, the first film by Ecuadorian director Ana Cristina Barragán. For more information about the IFFR program this year, click here.
