2020 | Color | 88:18 Year 2021 marks five centuries since Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire. 499 retraces the Spanish army’s route from Veracruz to Mexico City, following a fictional conquistador lost in modern times. Blending fact and fiction into a striking cinematic journey, 499 speaks to the ghosts of colonialism and their lingering presence in the issues facing contemporary Mexican reality. Country: México, Estados Unidos Direction: Reyes; Rodrigo Script: Padilla; Lorena, Reyes; Rodrigo Production: Cordera; Inti, Houchens; Andrew, Logan; Carter, Holmgren; Steve, Félix; David Photography: Mejía; Alejandro, AMC Sound: Mondragón; Pablo, Santiago; Adriana, Arteaga; Ricardo Music: Mondragón; Pablo Cast:San Juan Breña; Eduardo Art direction: Ruíz; Adriana (Vestuarista) Participation year at FICM: 2020
2020 | Color | 88:18 Year 2021 marks five centuries since Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire. 499 retraces the Spanish army’s route from Veracruz to Mexico City, following a fictional conquistador lost in modern times. Blending fact and fiction into a striking cinematic journey, 499 speaks to the ghosts of colonialism and their lingering presence in the issues facing contemporary Mexican reality. Country: México, Estados Unidos Direction: Reyes; Rodrigo Script: Padilla; Lorena, Reyes; Rodrigo Production: Cordera; Inti, Houchens; Andrew, Logan; Carter, Holmgren; Steve, Félix; David Photography: Mejía; Alejandro, AMC Sound: Mondragón; Pablo, Santiago; Adriana, Arteaga; Ricardo Music: Mondragón; Pablo Cast:San Juan Breña; Eduardo Art direction: Ruíz; Adriana (Vestuarista) Participation year at FICM: 2020
Querida Fátima A decade after her 12-year-old daughter Fátima was murdered in a brutal feminicide, Lorena Gutiérrez sets up camp outside of Mexico’s National Palace, demanding an audience with the country’s first female president. Directed collectively and led by Lorena herself, this visceral portrait captures the intersection of personal grief and political resistance in a country where according to the United Nations, 10 women and girls are murdered everyday. See More
Sansón and Me Two Mexican migrants, a young man serving a life sentence in prison and a filmmaker who was his court interpreter, become intertwined through life and cinema. See More
Sanson and Me Over the course of seven years of sharing letters and visiting him, Sanson and me have collaborated on a script for a series of reenactments narrating his tragic life story, spanning his childhood as a poor orphan in Mexico to his struggles to survive as a teenager in rural California. Slowly, the film begins to grow into an expansive portrait of the systemic failures impacting Sansón’s life as well as our developing friendship. See More
FICM Brings 17 Screenings to Pátzcuaro as FICM Presenta Takes Cinema to Michoacán and Across Mexico Year-Round 10 · 16 · 26 Enjoy All the Free Events That the 24th FICM Has in Store for You! 10 · 16 · 26 Night of the Dead Celebration Week: A Tradition Learned Through Our Hands 10 · 14 · 26 The Michoacan author José Rubén Romero 09 · 25 · 26
FICM Brings 17 Screenings to Pátzcuaro as FICM Presenta Takes Cinema to Michoacán and Across Mexico Year-Round 10 · 16 · 26
