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Special Programs FICM 2009

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Ramírez expressed his appreciation to the Norwegian Embassy for its support in exhibiting the films The Kautokeino Rebellion by Nils Gaup and O'Horten by Bent Hamer during the festival.

Daniela Michel, director of FICM, emphasized the festival?s commitment to indigenous filmmakers in Mexico and the world by convening for the third time the First Nations Forum. The official program also includes a retrospective of Michoacan director Dante Cerano, who has a showing at the MOMA in New York.

Thanks to the support of HSBC, the Cinema Without Borders cycle will screen the documentaries Which Way Home, by Rebecca Cammisa; In the Shadow of the Raid, by Greg Brosnan and Jessica Szhymanszhek; and Elvira by Javier Solórzano, among others.

Michel said that following the sage suggestion of French director Bertrand Tabernier the program Imaginery Mexico will be presented for the second year. In this edition of FICM, there will be a tribute to U.S. director John Huston, with the screening of three of his films: The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Night of the Iguana and Under the Volcano. The last film will be presented by producer Michael Fitzgerald.

To celebrate the 100 years of the Revolution and 200 years of Mexican Independence, Michel said the festival also will offer the program called Independence in Film, including films like El Padre Morelos by Miguel Contreras Torres and El Criollo by Fernando Méndez.

During the press conference, Marina Stavenhagen, director of IMCINE, said there would be a special showing of the Suertes, humores y pequeñas historias de la Independencia y de la Revolución program by IMCINE and the National Chamber of Electronic Industry and Information Technologies (CANIETI). ?The project is comprised of five shorts that last a minute and a half each made by Mexican animators in commemoration of the Independence movement and the Revolution whose intention is to awaken people?s curiosity about these historical events. In Morelia, five shorts of a series of 26 will be shown, 13 about the Independence movement and 13 about the Revolution,? she said.

Michel said that thanks to the support of the Archivo Fílmico Agrasánchez there will also be a program entitled Women in Film in México. This program, dedicated to pioneer women in film, will present a film that has been exhibited very little La Mujer de nadie, by Adela Sequeyro, as well as Dance, girl, dance, by Dorothy Arzner, well-known U.S. filmmaker and the teacher of Francis Ford Coppola.