Image Arellano, Bernardo He studied cinematography at the CCC film school in Mexico City. His work has been shown at more than 40 film screenings and festivals around the world. He participated with his documentary short film Zoogocho (2008) in the 27th Latin American Film Festival, Bordeaux, and the 49th Critics’ Week at Cannes, France, among other festivals. For this film, he won two awards for Best Documentary Short Film: In the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and in the 4th International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF, in Spanish). He won 11 awards for best first film for Entre la noche y el día (2011), including the Film in Progress Industry Award at the 58th San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain; Best Director at the 26th Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy; Best Screenplay at the 18th Lleida Latin American Film Festival, Catalonia; and Best Picture at the 14th South American Film Encounters, Marseille, France. He competed in the 12th FICM with his second feature, El comienzo del tiempo (2014), wich received the Young Creators Grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and a grant from the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund in 2013, among others. Other Movies Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. See More Related News Press Screening of El comienzo del tiempo by Bernardo Arellano 10 · 18 · 14 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Arellano, Bernardo He studied cinematography at the CCC film school in Mexico City. His work has been shown at more than 40 film screenings and festivals around the world. He participated with his documentary short film Zoogocho (2008) in the 27th Latin American Film Festival, Bordeaux, and the 49th Critics’ Week at Cannes, France, among other festivals. For this film, he won two awards for Best Documentary Short Film: In the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and in the 4th International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF, in Spanish). He won 11 awards for best first film for Entre la noche y el día (2011), including the Film in Progress Industry Award at the 58th San Sebastián International Film Festival, Spain; Best Director at the 26th Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy; Best Screenplay at the 18th Lleida Latin American Film Festival, Catalonia; and Best Picture at the 14th South American Film Encounters, Marseille, France. He competed in the 12th FICM with his second feature, El comienzo del tiempo (2014), wich received the Young Creators Grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and a grant from the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund in 2013, among others.
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More
Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. See More
