FICUNAM reveals first official sections in competition

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2024-04-17 23:19:51

After announcing the image corresponding to this recent edition in the last days of January and announcing at the beginning of March the retrospective to honor Paul Leduc, the UNAM International Film Festival (A fig tree) has announced the competing sections for this 14th edition.

In its announcement, the festival points out:

“This year the festival delves into a cinematographic exploration that transcends borders, highlighting content made in Latin America. FICUNAM thus consolidates itself as a meeting space for diversity and audiovisual creativity in the region, reaffirming its commitment to the promotion and dissemination of independent and auteur cinema.

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The first sections announced were:

  • Now Mexico
  • Successes. International Meeting of Film Schools
  • Thresholds of Cinematographic Avant-garde Competition

Respect to Now Mexicoit is a space that “seeks films capable of enhancing and expanding the collective reading of what is Mexican from the most audacious cinematographic proposals”. The Mexican films to compete are:

  • The lookerby Diego Hernandez
  • Ways to traverse a territoryby Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba
  • the earth the altarsby Sofia Peypoch
  • What we lost in the fireby Arturo González Villaseñor
  • Louis Riel oy The sky Touches the earth / Louis Riel or HEaven Touches Earthby Matías Meyer
  • river of toadsby Juan Nuñch
  • A story of love and warby Santiago Mohar Volkow
  • Xquipiby Juan Pablo Villalobos
  • Yūreiby Sumie García
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Within Successeswhere the festival seeks to establish itself as “a platform for new generations of film students and contribute to the shaping of new talents”, the selection is made up of the following films:

  • 25° 45’ 32”by Dahet Castro Ramos
  • Through me, I cross the froswhole of her memory, by Daniela Silicz
  • At certain times it is preferable not to moveby Juliana Uribe Gamboa
  • Essay for memoryde Denise Vanessa Chirich
  • distantstarby Celeste Rojas Mugica
  • Haby María Alejandra Castro Camacho
  • Jonahby Violeta Mora
  • Memories of a displaced bodyde Mariana Mendivil
  • Petricorby Juan José Arias Gil
  • If I Could Bear Myself Like Trees Doby Laura Valenzuela Montero

In the Thresholds of Cinematographic Vanguards section, the “competitive nature of contemporary experimental cinema made in Mexico”. That is, a challenge to the orthodox experience of appreciation. The tapes that make it up are:

  • 3:27 amby Sofia Landgrave Barbosa
  • Mexico will no longer exist!by Annalisa D. Quagliata
  • Alliesuntil Azucena Losana
  • Acapulco Screenfrom the Dialectical Assembly Unit
  • The Future Machineby Bruno Varela
  • Manifestby Jesse Lerner
  • Nahualfrom the Los Ingrávidos Collective
  • Hobbies of a gardenerby Alan Medina
  • Cosmic Vacillationsby Jimena Muhlia Montero
  • Wayakby Juan Romero

The 14th edition of this A fig tree It will take place from June 13 to 20 in different spaces in Mexico City, as well as at the University Cultural Center (CCU).

2024-04-17 23:19:51

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