Documentary cinema in Mexico It is fruitful like (almost) no other film genre; Therefore, it is, perhaps, one of those that has taken root the most around the world. But it all starts here, in this immense country. With efforts like the one carried out by the Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival (DocsMX), which this 2024 reaches its nineteenth edition.
At a press conference, Inti Cordera y Pau Montagudexecutive director and artistic director of DocsMx, respectively, presented the key points of this festival that is soon to celebrate two decades promoting documentary cinema in Mexico and Latin America, screening films from those two regions, as well as from different countries around the globe.
When taking the floor, Cordera acknowledged that they are an independent proposal. So, from there, “not only in the ten days in which the festival traditionally takes place and that makes Mexico City an epicenter of national and international documentary filmmaking, we also have the capacity and possibility of collaborating with very different instances and geographies in the development of other projects and other programs.”
That is, the diversification, which has materialized with the editions that have been carried out in Puebla o Oaxaca, as well as in other programs that are fundamental pieces of the festival.
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After the exhibition of cineminute why is DocsMX, They presented the numbers that, more than unnecessary or annoying, are revealing. They said that 81 documentaries will be screened in the official section, as well as 113 screenings in total in 15 different venues. Furthermore, some Doc Talks and more than 30 projects in DocsLab.
“Of the October 10-20, 2024in cinemas, the streets of Mexico City, docslinea.com and theaters throughout the Republic, the 19th edition of DocsMX will be held: a space to enjoy the documentary and the conversations generated around it, with a curatorship prepared from the 900 works received in the call,” they highlighted from the festival.
Of the more than 80 documentaries that make up the official selection, there are films from countries such as Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czechia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Ukraine, Venezuelaamong others, in addition to Mexico and USA.
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Likewise, Cordera and Montagud announced that, as part of DocsForumthe Swedish filmmaker will be present Fredrik Gertten for a seminar, a master class and, of course, a retrospective. After mentioning that all this around the documentary filmmaker will take place in the Communication Universityboth speakers recalled that Gertten’s films have been almost entirely screened at this festival throughout its history.
DocsMx will take place in venues such as National Cinematheque, Cine Lido, Goethe-Institut Mexiko, Parque México, Cine Tonalá, University of Communicationthe José Revueltas room of the CCUhe Universe, the ENAC-UNAMhe Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, House of Vans, Impact Hubthe Cosmos Lighthouse and, not least for those outside the capital, the Docs online platform.
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The seven sections (Made in Mexico, Mexico debut film, Mexican fragments, International fragments, Our America, Global Docs and Doc Talks) in competition, are distributed, among others, the 35 international premieres, the 20 from Latin America and another 18 in Mexican territory.
Some of the Mexican filmmakers who will be at the festival with their documentaries are Ángel Estrada Soto, Yuliana García Hernández, Jorge Curioca, Alberto Arnaut Estrada, Luciana Kaplan. Among those who will present their first film we can find to Begoña Félix, Manuel Acuña, Juan Cristóbal Jasso, Ligia Cortés Águilaamong others and others.
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From other areas of the American continent, from Canada to Argentina and Uruguay, filmmakers such as Jota Loyola Crovetto, Alejandro Bernal Rueda, Pablo Montlau, Marta García y Sol Infante, Tamara Uribe and Felipe Morgado, Joanna Lombardi Pollarolo, Juru and Vitä, Tamara Segura and Marc Wiese y Juan Camilo Cruz, that will present a German production, but recorded entirely in Venezuela.
At the end of the press conference before the media, director Juanfe Castro Gessner said a few words to present This art that embraces, a documentary that recounts the responses from different artistic disciplines that took place after the night in which the 43 students of Ayotzinapa in the hands of the State. This will be the opening performance, and also the one that closes the festival.
#19DocsMX | Prior to the screening of “This art that embraces”, JuanFe, director of this documentary that remembers and focuses on #Ayotzinapagave a brief introduction and reflection on the importance of documentary film.https://t.co/10jpzQfmPF
📹: @demixngarcia pic.twitter.com/wKt5c1VxF5— @diario24horas (@diario24horas) September 26, 2024
The information is available in detail on the official DocsMX website.
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