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Starting on March 23rd with an outdoor presentation
Justice, central theme of Ambulante. Documentary tour 2017
March 07, 2017Justice will be one of the main focus of the twelfth edition of Ambulante. Documentary tour will start on March 23rd with an outdoor presentation of the movie, The eagle huntress by Otto Bell at the Monument to the Revolution.
According to Paulina Suarez, general director of the gathering, Ambulante sides with the idea of understanding the reforms of the criminal and penal system from a citizen perspective, "we incorporate the main idea of justice to see how we understand justice from our daily lives, the role of the judges, the role played by The Office of the Public Defender, how these things affect our whole society”.
The most important documentary movie program in our country also invites us to reflect on other issues such as migratory movements, family circumstances, social minorities, traditions and religion, social conflicts, LGBTQ rights and the environment.
The features of Ambulante 2017, a space dedicated to support and disseminate documentary cinema as a tool for cultural and social transformation, were announced at a press conference on March 7th.
The event was also attended by Daniela Michel, general director of the International Film Festival of Morelia (FICM, for its acronym in Spanish); Ramón Ramírez, director of public relations at Cinépolis; Selene Estrada, operations manager of Zignum Mezcal; Roxana Alejo, operating director of Ambulante; Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, vice-president of FICM; and Meghan Monsour, director of programming of the festival.
Daniela Michel stressed the importance of this program by saying that it is a magnificent, warm, professional, original and unique festival in the world, "an excellent initiative that contributes to Mexico’s culture."
Meanwhile, Ramón Ramírez said that the documentary film festival will be present in 17 areas of Cinépolis, each ticket will cost 40 pesos and a Cinebono of 120 pesos (four tickets) will be offered to the public.
Paulina Suárez defined Ambulante as a solid platform and talked about its present and future. She stressed that among the challenges facing the festival are: its long-term sustainability and to define how the interaction and the place of documentary filmmaking will be with the digital world.
"One of these challenges is solved with the restructuring of our website (www.ambulante.org), which is a strategy to continue to involve audiences in places we do not go and offer them much more original and quality content”.
"And finally, we will try to redefine the role that the documentary plays in society. In this sense, our mission will be to share and transform the world through its stories. "
Roxana Alejo said that the festival will offer documentaries to the public for 64 days and 42 areas will be the venues of the festival in Mexico City.
"It will be 106 international documentaries and 34 first movies. Fifty-three female directors’ works and 83 directors’ movies will be projected, and we will have over 100 guests. "
Finally, Meghan Monsour pointed out that the sections of "Sonidero", a space dedicated to music, with a rich variety of movies that project many different styles and characters, and "Injerto", avant-garde and experimental cinema, are back in this edition of Ambulante.
She added that the activities that will be carried out include a retrospective of the Brazilian documentarist Eduardo Coutinho and the display of a selection by Werner Herzog’s favorite documentaries.
In total, there are more than 150 activities (including camps, lectures, round tables, theater, performance, wrestlers and live movies) as well as a program of 135 movies from 32 countries: United States, Poland, Germany, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, among others.
The festival will offer the public 10 world premieres and 53 national premieres (34 of them made in Mexico). Among the works to be presented are the awarded ones in the most important international film festivals such as I am not your black, Without a place to hide, The challenge, The freedom of the devil, Machines, The last men in Aleppo, Brothers, The contest, Forest of fog, Eyes of the sea, Communion, La Chana, Jonas and the sea, The perfect future and Deliver us.
Another activity is "Ambulante Ideas", made up of talks with directors, specialists, academics and activists. In addition, it is scheduled the presentation of the book by Ambulante Ediciones: Cinema as subversive art by Amos Vogel, the first translation into Spanish of this fundamental work in the history of cinema.
Ambulante. Documentary tour will be held from March 23rd to May 25th. It will be two months of uninterrupted cinema through ten states of the country: Mexico City, Oaxaca, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Baja California, Puebla, Michoacán Coahuila, Querétaro and Veracruz.
To know the complete program of Ambulante. Documentary tour, please visit: www.ambulante.org
Mexico,Distrito Federal
