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FICM at the Critics’ Week of the Cannes Festival

We are pleased to announce again this year that since 2003 a selection of the works of FICM will be presented outside the competition at the Critics’ Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Festival. The function will be held on Thursday, May 22, at 11:30 (hour in France).

This year, six of the titles that are part of FICM’s special program will be the only works by Mexican filmmakers shown at Cannes. Mexican cinema will be represented at this prestigious festival by:

• Aningaaq, by Jonás Cuarón (Official Selection FICM 2013)
• The Last Veil (El último velo), by Luis David Palomino Benítez (Official Selection FICM 2013)
• The End of the Existence of Things (El fin de la existencia de las cosas), by Dalia Huerta Cano (Official Selection FICM 2013)
• Jerusalem (Jerusalén), by Alicia Segovia Juárez (Studio 5 de Mayo Special Award FICM 2013)
• The Invisible Mountains (Las montañas invisibles), by Ángel Linares (Best Documentary Short Film FICM 2013)
• The Sidewalk (La banqueta), by Anaïs Pareto Onghena (Best Fiction Short Film FICM 2013)

The filmmakers Alicia Segovia Juárez, Anaïs Pareto Onghena, Ángel Linares, Luis David Palomino Benítez and Dalia Huerta Cano will be present for the screening. The artistic director of the Critic's Week, Charles Tesson, and Daniela Michel, FICM's general director, will also assist the screening.

Thanks to the partnership that FICM has maintained with the Critics’ Week, a selection of their films in competition will be presented at FICM 2014, with the directors attending.

In this way, FICM’s presence at the Cannes Festival continues to consolidate itself and promote the dissemination of quality Mexican film at the international level.

Presence of Mexican cinema at the Cannes Festival 2014

Mexican cinema will be represented in the Un Certain Regard section by Jauja, by the Argentine director Lisandro Alonso, a co-production between Denmark, the United States, Argentina and Mexico. The Un Certain Regard section was created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, with the objective of showing 20 films with especially daring projects and giving the directors international recognition.

In addition, the Cinéfondation of the Cannes Festival, a section dedicated to showcasing the work of the film schools, is organized by L’Atelier. Through this initiative, each year Cannes selects 15 feature projects from all around the world to support their development. This year, Las tinieblas by Daniel Castro Zimbrón is among those that were chosen. This project participated in Morelia LAB 2013 and in Cinélatino, Recontres de Toulouse 2014. Las tinieblas is the second episode of a trilogy started by Tau, Official Selection at FICM 2012.

Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor, director, producer, and Special Invited Guest at FICM on numerous occasions, will be a member of the jury at the Official Selection at the 67th edition of the Cannes Festival.

Daniela Michel, general director of the Morelia International Film Festival, will also have the great honor of being a jury member at Critics’ Week.

The 53rd edition of the Critics’ Week will be held from May 15 to 24 in the framework of the 67th Cannes Festival.