Image García Bernal, Gael He studied acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD), London. Actor, film director and producer, he is the founding partner of the Mexican production and distribution company CANANA and the Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. Recently, he was part of the jury at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, France. His acting career began at a young age with De tripas corazón (1996) by Antonio Urrutia, a film nominated for the Best Short Film award at the 68th Academy Awards ceremony, United States, and winner of the Ariel for Best Short Fiction Film at the 38th Ariel Awards. Gael García has received more than 20 awards around the world, including the Ariel for Best Actor at the 43rd Ariel Awards for his work in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first feature film, Amores Perros (2000); the Marcello Mastroianni Award, shared with Diego Luna, for his acting in Y tu mamá también (2001) by Alfonso Cuarón, at the 58th Venice International Film Festival, Italy; and Best Actor at the 11th Valdivia International Film Festival (FICV / FICValdivia), Chile, for his part in La mala educación (2004) by Pedro Almodóvar, the opening film at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. He has also worked with other acclaimed directors, like Walter Salles, for whom he played the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Diarios de motocicleta (2004), which won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 57th Cannes Film Festival; with Michel Gondry in The Science of Sleep (2006), winner of the Best Soundtrack Award for Jean-Michel Bernard at the 60th Cannes Film Festival; and with Jim Jarmusch in Los límites del control (2009). As film director, he has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He was a special invited guest at the 5th FICM, where he presented his first feature film Déficit (2007), which was also shown at the 46th Critics’ Week, Cannes, France. He participated in the collective work Revolución (2010), which premiered at the 8th FICM, with his fragment Lucio. This work was also screened at the 49th Critics’ Week, Cannes, and won the “Abrazo” award for Best Feature and the French Film Critics Union award at the 19th Biarritz Festival of Latin American Cinema and Cultures, France. Other Movies If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More 40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More Related News Ema, de Pablo Larraín, llega a salas mexicanas 03 · 13 · 20 Mexicanos participarán en el 23° Festival de Málaga 03 · 02 · 20 Gael García Bernal será premiado en el Festival de Málaga 01 · 30 · 20 Películas sobre migración que se han presentado en el FICM 12 · 18 · 19 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image García Bernal, Gael He studied acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD), London. Actor, film director and producer, he is the founding partner of the Mexican production and distribution company CANANA and the Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. Recently, he was part of the jury at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, France. His acting career began at a young age with De tripas corazón (1996) by Antonio Urrutia, a film nominated for the Best Short Film award at the 68th Academy Awards ceremony, United States, and winner of the Ariel for Best Short Fiction Film at the 38th Ariel Awards. Gael García has received more than 20 awards around the world, including the Ariel for Best Actor at the 43rd Ariel Awards for his work in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first feature film, Amores Perros (2000); the Marcello Mastroianni Award, shared with Diego Luna, for his acting in Y tu mamá también (2001) by Alfonso Cuarón, at the 58th Venice International Film Festival, Italy; and Best Actor at the 11th Valdivia International Film Festival (FICV / FICValdivia), Chile, for his part in La mala educación (2004) by Pedro Almodóvar, the opening film at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. He has also worked with other acclaimed directors, like Walter Salles, for whom he played the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Diarios de motocicleta (2004), which won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 57th Cannes Film Festival; with Michel Gondry in The Science of Sleep (2006), winner of the Best Soundtrack Award for Jean-Michel Bernard at the 60th Cannes Film Festival; and with Jim Jarmusch in Los límites del control (2009). As film director, he has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He was a special invited guest at the 5th FICM, where he presented his first feature film Déficit (2007), which was also shown at the 46th Critics’ Week, Cannes, France. He participated in the collective work Revolución (2010), which premiered at the 8th FICM, with his fragment Lucio. This work was also screened at the 49th Critics’ Week, Cannes, and won the “Abrazo” award for Best Feature and the French Film Critics Union award at the 19th Biarritz Festival of Latin American Cinema and Cultures, France.
If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More
Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More
40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More
Ema, de Pablo Larraín, llega a salas mexicanas 03 · 13 · 20 Mexicanos participarán en el 23° Festival de Málaga 03 · 02 · 20 Gael García Bernal será premiado en el Festival de Málaga 01 · 30 · 20 Películas sobre migración que se han presentado en el FICM 12 · 18 · 19
