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FICM Reveals the Official Selection for Its 24th Edition!

Since 2003, the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) has worked tirelessly to promote the work of Mexican filmmakers through its Official Selection, which consists entirely of Mexican films.

This year, FICM is pleased to announce that there are 96 films in its 24th edition competition: 8 films in the Michoacán Section (7 short films and 1 feature film), 64 titles in the Mexican Short Film Section (17 animated, 11 documentary, and 36 fiction), 12 films in the Mexican Documentary Section, and 12 films in the Mexican Feature Film Section.

The 96 selected films, directed by filmmakers from 17 states across Mexico, will compete in their respective sections for El Ojo, a sculpture created by Michoacán artist Javier Marín and the top prize awarded by FICM, as well as financial incentives and other prizes.

Of the films in the Official Selection for the 24th FICM, 40% are directed by women. Additionally, four films in this year’s competition were directed by filmmakers from Indigenous communities.

The winning short films in the Fiction, Animation, and Documentary categories, as well as the winning documentary in the “Eye on Mexican Documentary Feature” category, will be automatically eligible for an Oscar® nomination.

In addition, some of the short films from this year’s Official Selection may be invited to a special out-of-competition screening at the next Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2027.

#FICM2026 will take place from October 16 to 25, with live screenings in Morelia, Michoacán, and virtual screenings through nuestrocine.mx.

Once again, we celebrate that #MoreliaEsCineMexicano.

The films that make up the Official Selection of the 24th FICM are:

 MICHOACAN SECTION

Short Film

1. 72 | Rafael Martínez-García
2. Esto no es el mar | Paula Ollivier Ortiz, Efrén Villa Cortés
3. Guardianas del sabor | Jocelyn Torres, Giuliana Bustos
4. Salvador Monarca | Rubí Marín López
5. El sueño de las luciérnagas | Porfirio López
6. Únhantani | Jonathan Yadir Barojas
7. Visiones infantiles | Felipe de Jesús Godoy Castillo

Feature

1. Buenos días, buenas noches, buenas tardes | Adrián González-Camargo

MEXICAN SHORT FILM SECTION

Animation

1. Aquí y allá | Amanda Woolrich Zárate
2. Blooky: The Book Who Wanted to Be Read | Pablo Díaz de León Hicks
3. Canción de noche | Karla Castañeda Ortega
4. Carry On! | Karla Isaura Velázquez Rocha
5. Cartas a los perdidos | Adriana Monteforte Lahera
6. Chabacano | Mauricio Hernández Serrano
7. Cuna de lobas | Emilia Schettino Bustamante
8. El canto del jaguar | Antonia Sofía Silva Alvarado
9. Farewell. | Ximena Álvarez Portilla
10. Little Nightmares - Broken Promises | Juan Jose Medina Dávalos, Sofía Catalina Carrillo Ramírez  
11. Parsimonia | Rodrigo Suré
12. Puc Puc | Ariadna Galaz Vega, Jorge Peralta Galindo
13. Static | Nicky Obregón Aceves
14. Tara | Saúl Gabaldón Robles
15. The Boy and the Demon | Santiago Areán Viveros
16. Vagón de medianoche |  Fatima Montserrat Castillo Gutiérrez, Eduardo Arandia Baltazar
17. Yugen | Nayelli Ojeda

Documentary

1. El brillo negro | Santiago Maza
2. En tu memoria | Mariel Cortés
3. Máscaras de tiempo | Sara Stephany Padilla
4. Miriam | Karla Condado
5. Nadie recuerda ese film | Andrés Pulido
6. Ni racaladxe' | Alma Yoari Cizana López, Patricia Matus Alonso
7. Rituales | Enrique Muñoz Rizo
8. Tajé | Ángel Linares
9. Tuvimos el deseo de romperlo todo | Daniel Hernández
10. Las tripas de la señora Tagle | Mariana Mendivil
11. Voces del bosque | Teresa Camou, Arturo López Barrera

Fiction

1. 1974 | José Esteban Pavlovich
2. Agridulce | María Guisa
3. Al día siguiente | Luis Enrique Vergara
4. Albatross | Amandine Thomas
5. Azucena | Tiaré Scanda Flores Coto
6. Brote en el concreto | Renata Elizondo
7. Carmen | Leire Aguilera Kelly
8. Carne | Adolfo Margulis
9. Concordia Norte | Hugo Montelongo
10. Contesta | María Fernanda Prieto
11. Cuando las niñas crecen | Daniela Soria
12. Cuando llegue a casa | Edgar Adrián
13. Cuerda manual | Gustavo Obregón
14. Dante | Julio Kassack
15. Diez de Mayo | Moctezuma
16. Eclipse | Rodrigo Aviña
17. El rostro | Jorge Sistos
18. Entre copas | Marta Hernaiz Pidal
19. Fin del verano | Francisco Sánchez
20. Helena con H | David Flores
21. Hongos silvestres | Isa Montalvo
22. La ruptura | César Galileo
23. Liena | Natalia Moguel
24. Marga en el DF | Gabriela Ortega
25. Mayor de edad | Lucía Díaz
26. Ñuuyii (La Tierra) | Itandehui Jansen
27. Quemadura de luna | Diego Sosa
28. Radiestesia | Jacinto Velasco
29. Rubicón | Mayra Hermosillo
30. Salí a caminar (volví a mi cuarto) | Roberto García
31. Satanáscabaña | Natalia Martínez
32. Sobremesa | Karla Luna Cantú
33. Todas las ventanas están cerradas | Jorge G. Camarena
34. Un dos tres por ti | Diana Castro
35. Valet Parking | Alo Valenzuela
36. Zumbido | Kate Del Castillo

MEXICAN DOCUMENTARY SECTION

1. El baile de las ánimas | Ramón Llaven
2. Forensita | Pablo Vaca
3. Hijas del bosque | Otilia Portillo Padua
4. Jaripeo | Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig
5. Los mariachis perdidos | Francisco Ohem
6. Mickey | Dano García 
7. Odisea nacional | Mariano Rentería
8. Querida Fátima | Lorena Gutiérrez, Rodrigo Reyes, Jesús Quintana
9. Reportaje | Nicolás Gutiérrez
10. Mi sangre es petróleo | Vania Carolina Quevedo
11. Traces of Home | Colette Ghunim
12. yātrā | Alejandro Rugama

MEXICAN FEATURE SECTION

1. 6 meses en el edificio rosa con azul | Bruno Santamaría Razo
2. La cazadora | Suzanne Andrews Correa
3. Ceniza en la boca | Diego Luna 
4. Chicas tristes | Fernanda Tovar
5. Contra la naturaleza | Axel Bertha
6. Lo demás es ruido | Nicolás Pereda
7. Los días de Poncho | Faustino Alanís
8. El jardín que soñamos | Joaquín del Paso
9. Los nuevos | Rodrigo Plá
10. Nosotros | Joaquín Ruano
11. Salón de belleza | Nathalia Acevedo
12. Toda una vida | Ariel Gutiérrez