Morelia International Film Festival

Terrence Vance Gilliam may have passed as an Englishman before the eyes of his millions of fans because of his long and fruitful collaboration with the irreverent Monty Python comedy troupe, but he was actually born in Medicine Lake, Minnesota, on November 22, 1940.

In fact, he was the only “Python” not born in Britain (he became a dual American-British citizen in 1968). He joined the troupe in 1969 and became well known as an actor and writer, but above all as a cartoonist for his surreal animations reflected in the cartoons he created for the television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-1975) and the group’s feature films.

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Filmmaker, producer, and film collector extraordinaire, Serge Bromberg has devoted his career to rescuing and showcasing cinema treasures. His company Lobster Films, founded in 1985, has been instrumental in the discovery, restoration and distribution of film rarities and classics (among these, works by Méliès, the Lumière brothers, Fellini, Kurosawa, Ford, Renoir, Vigo, and Carné).

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One of the most prolific filmmakers in Germany, writer and director Doris Dörrie has delighted audiences over the past three decades with a rich body of work, unparalleled in its span of both genre and scale (besides her impressive filmography, she has produced a host of children’s books, short stories, novels, worked in television and staged operas).

Known for her implacable wit and relentless optimism, her keen eye for the tragicomic, as well as her penetrating take on sexual politics and the accelerated rhythms of modern city living, Dörrie makes a cinema that is at once contemplative, vibrant and spontaneous.

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With each one of his works, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert returns us to an essence of cinema—that is, how film partakes in the making of a world. The camera doesn’t see for us, it reinvents how and what we see; it invites an encounter.

Philibert’s cinema is never “about” something; it refuses to “capture” its subject. Instead, his films unfold us onto singular scenes culled from an array of contexts: a classroom in a rural school in France (Être et avoir); everyday life at the famous psychiatric clinic of La Borde (La moindre des choses); the bustling behind the scenes of the Musée du Louvre (La Ville Louvre); experiences of the hearing-impaired (Le pays de sourds); or the worldview of those in corporate power (La voix de son maître).

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Boasting a prodigious versatility and exquisite wit, Fernando Trueba has not ceased to captivate us with his infectious and enviable passion for cinema, music and life. During the last thirty years and counting, he has worked within a number of film genres, mixing elements of classic comedy, period film, documentary and theater in order to construct the impeccable visual discourse and narrative architecture that characterize his films.

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