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A look at the FICM 2013 Mexican Feature Film Section

The filmmakers in the FICM 2013 Mexican Feature Film Section answered the same question: What would you like to say to the audience who will see your work at the 11th FICM? 

In preparation for the screening of these films in Morelia, we present a message from the directors to the general public. You can check out more information about each film by clicking on its title:

1. A los ojos. Michel y Victoria Franco

2. Club Sándwich. Fernando Eimbcke

3. González. Christian Díaz Pardo: González is the story of an ordinary person, with goals and aspirations, fears and needs. González moves between loneliness, anguish, and debt. This character constantly confronts the inability to adapt to a system that continuously cheats, deceives, sabotages … so he decides to cheat too. González is at a crossroads: whether to believe in himself or believe what the banks, television and church say. Any similarity with reality is entirely intentional.

4. Las horas muertas. Aarón Fernández: La horas muertas is my second film. I always wanted it to have a relatively simple plot, which allowed me to concentrate on other more complex aspects. I’m very interested in the construction of environments and sensations, the presence of lovable characters and a mise en scène that is both very visual and at the same time refined.

5. Los insólitos peces gato. Claudia Sainte-Luce: The minutes prior to showing the film are filled with a hole in the stomach, a tremor in the left eye, sweaty hands, but also of excitement close to the throat to see if I can connect with the audience. This story is full of tears, farewells, laughter, welcomes, intuitions, memories, sighs, rejections that encourage, people who I admire and encouragement, much encouragement to live.

6. La jaula de oro. Diego Quemada-Diez: Hundreds of anonymous migrants described their experiences to me with the hope that others would know about their situation. This film is their story.

7. Manto Acuífero. Michael Rowe

8. Paraíso. Mariana Chenillo

9. Penumbra. Eduardo Villanueva: I’m very happy to participate in Morelia after presenting Penumbra in more than 20 festivals around the world, and more so because of the deserved tribute the festival is paying to Alejandro Jodorowsky. I had the honor of meeting Jodorowsky some years ago in many occasions, in which this great sensei taught me a lot; among his teachings was the capacity of giving myself the energy and the courage required to become a self-taught and independent filmmaker. For all his great human work I will be infinitely grateful.

10. Somos Mari Pepa. Samuel Kishi Leopo

11. La vida después. David Pablos

12. Workers. José Luis Valle: Workers is a first film made under the spell of Tijuana – perhaps not of the real Tijuana, but of a Tijuana as I see and feel it. The structure is a proposal for dialogue, even a mysterious game. In the first half of the film, I put the pieces on the table. In the second half, all the pieces fit together. But it requires the complicity of a spectator with a keen eye. They are stories and visions that I’ve wanted to share for many years.