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At the Cineteca Nacional
The 62nd International Film Festival comes in April
March 30, 2017For 46 years, the International Film Festival has been a non-competitive gathering that aims to bring the most innovative and recent proposals of cinematographic art to the Mexican public. All the titles participating throughout its history have been recognized by the most prestigious specialists and, also, they have been awarded in countless festivals worldwide.
The 62nd International Film Festival opens with a Mexican first film, as a result of the Film Factory and Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, who is also producer of the film: 3 women or (awakening from my Bosnian dream) (Mexico, 2016) by Sergio Flores Thorija. In the film, three girls fight to achieve their goals against the difficulties of a conservative social system that considers differences as dangers.
The film that won the FIPRESCI Prize of the Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival, Voraz (France-Belgium, 2016) by Julia Ducournau, will bring its frightening gore tone that reminds Dario Argento's delirious movies and films like Carrie: Strange feeling (1976). On his behalf, Romanian Cristi Puiu returns to the Cineteca with Sieranevada (Romania-France-Bosnia-Herzegovina-Croatia-Macedonia, 2016), a film that recovers the political analysis, represented in and acid and ironic lineage, a metaphor of the Eastern Europe.
The winner of the Palme d'Or and Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Ken Loach, arrives with his controversial and humanist movie I, Daniel Blake (United Kingdom-France-Belgium, 2016). After being at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel retake the characters of La pivellina (2009) with their documentary style and a fiction touch in Mister Universe (Italy-Austria, 2016).
My life as a zucchini (Switzerland-France, 2016), by Claude Barras, nominated for Best Animated Film Oscar’s 2017, is based on the novel: Autobiographie d'une courgette by Gilles Paris. Incident light (Argentina-France-Uruguay, 2015), by Ariel Rotter, shows the erratic beginning of a relationship marked by the social context in which is set: the Argentina of the sixties. Blood of my blood (Italy-France-Switzerland, 2015) is one of the most recent films of the veteran Marco Belloccio (China is near, 1967) that include the genre "of time" and the subgenre of vampires.
The Belgian cinema will be one of the favorites in the 62nd edition of the festival. On one hand, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne come with The Unknown Girl (Belgium-France, 2016), which addresses the theme of individual responsibility and immigration. On the other hand, Fien Troch, winner of the Horizontes Prize at the Venice Film Festival, will be present with Home (Belgium, 2016) where we will see some teenagers influenced by drugs and technology.
Also, Under the Sand (Denmark-Germany, 2015) by Martin Zandvliet, an exciting survival thriller and a touching story of reencountered humanity, nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture Oscar’s 2017; The lesson (Bulgaria-Greece, 2014) by Kristina Grozeva, symbolizes the rebellion of the human being facing a current world defined as cynical and mercantile.
Last days in Havana (Cuba-Spain, 2016) by renowned Fernando Pérez Valdés, is an update of his Strawberry and Chocolate (1993), where he reflects a declaration of love for the Cuban capital and the brightness of its inhabitants, but also the uncertainty of a country facing a moment of transformation, and After the storm (Japan, 2016), by Hirokazu Koreeda, who returns to the incisive analysis of family relationships based on examining his characters under a tender and bittersweet look.
The 62nd International Film Festival will take place from April 7th to 24th at the Cineteca Nacional. During the following months, it will be present in different states of the Mexican Republic thanks to the support of universities, cultural centers and private organizations.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
