Image Zirión, Antonio He studied ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH, in Spanish), Mexico City, and received a master’s degree in visual anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology (GCVA) at the University of Manchester, England; and a master’s degree and a Ph.D in anthropological sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico City. His work has been shown at more than 40 film screenings and festivals around the world and has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He received a Special Mention at the 3rd FICM for his short documentary Últimas memorias vivas (2004). He competed in the same edition of FICM with his feature length documentary, Voces de la guerrero (2004), co-directed with Adrián Arce and Diego Rivera Kohn. It won the SIGNIS Award for Best Documentary, a Special Mention and the Sergei Eisenstein Award at the 3rd Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” Mexico, and the José Rovirosa Award of the UNAM Film Archives 2004. He participated in the 11th FICM with his short documentary, Fuera de foco (2013), also co-directed with Adrián Arce, which won the Best Documentary Award at the 5th Recife Ethnographic Film Festival (FFER, in Portuguese), Brazil. Other Movies Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More 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 Related News The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Zirión, Antonio He studied ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH, in Spanish), Mexico City, and received a master’s degree in visual anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology (GCVA) at the University of Manchester, England; and a master’s degree and a Ph.D in anthropological sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico City. His work has been shown at more than 40 film screenings and festivals around the world and has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He received a Special Mention at the 3rd FICM for his short documentary Últimas memorias vivas (2004). He competed in the same edition of FICM with his feature length documentary, Voces de la guerrero (2004), co-directed with Adrián Arce and Diego Rivera Kohn. It won the SIGNIS Award for Best Documentary, a Special Mention and the Sergei Eisenstein Award at the 3rd Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” Mexico, and the José Rovirosa Award of the UNAM Film Archives 2004. He participated in the 11th FICM with his short documentary, Fuera de foco (2013), also co-directed with Adrián Arce, which won the Best Documentary Award at the 5th Recife Ethnographic Film Festival (FFER, in Portuguese), Brazil.
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
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
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
