The Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) is a unique meeting point in Mexico for the cinematographic community, the people of Michoacán and international filmmakers. FICM’s mission is to promote new talents in Mexican cinema, to increase the offering of quality cinema and to contribute to the cultural and tourist activities in the state of Michoacán.
Morelia International Film Festival started in 2003 and takes place in Morelia, Michoacán, México
A Thousand Pines, a vérité documentary showing the day-to-day life of migrant workers who labor in America’s lucrative timber industry, will have its world premiere at the New York Latino Film Festival, taking place September 15-24, 2023, and a broadcast premiere on PBS’s Independent Lens next year.
The Morelia International Film Festival unveiled the poster for the festival’s 12th edition taking place October 17-26, 2014, which celebrates the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Throughout the year, FICM will gradually reveals the festival details that will characterize its next edition, beginning with the date of publication of the call, the announcement of the Official Selection, programming and, of course, the release of its image.
In an interview, Rodrigo Toledo, designer of the FICM image, shared his creative process of each year: “It’s re-interpreting the same theme. Re-inventing the black thread again and again and reconvening the basic elements, which are even in the title: festival, film, Morelia. I start with that and then try to go on a tangent and create an abstract feeling, but you start with the basic building blocks.”
In relation to the poster of the 12th FICM, Toledo said that his first source of inspiration was Mexican nationalist art of the period of Lázaro Cárdenas and also the graphic design of the Spanish Republic. “In the end, the image is inspired by the posters of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema which, curiously, were designed by the same artists of the Republican posters – exiles who came to Mexico.”
For Toledo, the image of the 12th FICM “represents film, first, by means of nostalgia, by means of nationalism, but not as nationalism is understood today, but by way of exalting that which is Mexican.” Choosing an iconic diva as protagonist was influenced by the amount of beautiful pictures that exist of Mexican actresses of that time. Furthermore, according to Toledo: “This is the third time that we use a female character, and indirectly I tell myself – she is Morelia.”
The publication of the festival poster is one of the first signs that the next FICM is near. On August 8, the results of the call, in which more than 750 Mexican films enrolled, will be announced.
The 11th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), which will take place from October 18 to 27, 2013, unveiled the Official Selections in competition. The competition is composed of a total of 88 titles, including 11 titles in the Mexican feature film section of the competition and 11 titles from Michoacán, 43 short films and 23 Mexican documentaries complete the Official Selection.
The Official Selection in competition:
FEATURE FILM
Enero. Adrián González Camargo
SHORT FILMS
Algo del universo. Diego Isham
Ciudad capital. Agustín Bracho Adalid
Dr. Onco. Yadira Arellano
Esteban Grabinski. Víctor Rodrigo Pérez Hernández
Larga espera. Julio Alberto Ávila Díaz
Llamada nocturna. Mauricio Calderón
Secreto. Jorge Sistos Moreno
Terreno baldío. Gerardo Martínez Aguilar
Tiempos supermodernos. Lubianca Durán Becerra
Una estatua mutilada. Juan Carlos Oñate
FICTION
Algo tan pequeño. Gabriel Mariño
Arma blanca. Mauricio Calderón Rico
La ausencia. Saulo Corona
Avenida Progreso. Mauricio Guillén
Aviéntame. Haroldo Fajardo
La banqueta. Anaïs Pareto Onghena
Blackout capítulo 4 “Una llamada a Neverland”. Manuel Camacho
Dissonance. Alejandro Jiménez
El dolor fantasma. José Pablo Escamilla González Aragón
En el bosque. Alejandra Ibarrola Medina
Estatuas. Roberto Fiesco
El fin de la existencia de las cosas. Dalia Huerta Cano
Frente al espejo. Carlos Kasuski
Gajes del oficio. Mariana Gironella
Hermanas. Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Inframundo. Ana Mary Ramos
Jerusalén. Alicia Segovia Juárez
La laguna encantada. Pablo Pérez Lombardini
Música para después de dormir. Nicolás Rojas Sánchez
Ni aquí ni allá. Gina Herrera
El palacio de las flores. Regina García Solórzano
Paradisio. Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson
Pasajeros. Miguel Fernández
Porcelana. Betzabé García
Príncipe. Indra Villaseñor
Protocolo. Rodrigo Hernández
El regalo. Sergio Umansky
El río ahí entre los árboles. Pepe Gutiérrez
Sable. Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz
Silent. José Yapur
Sofía de Bucarest. Santiago Mohar Volkow
Syjamscy. Joaquín del Paso
El triunfo. Baltazar Peña Ríos
El último velo. Luis Palomino
Zero Hour. Dan Carrillo
ANIMATION
La casa triste. Sofía Carrillo
Dry Gulch. Alejandro Ayala Alberola
Electrodoméstico. Erik de Luna
Lluvia en los ojos. Rita Basulto
Moskina. Beatriz Herrera Carrillo
¿Qué es la guerra? Luis Beltrán
Tierra seca. Ricardo Torres
Un día en familia. Pedro “Zulu” González
FEATURE FILMS
Los años de Fierro. Santiago Esteinou
Atempa, sueños a orillas del río. Edson Caballero Trujillo
El cuarto desnudo. Nuria Ibáñez
Elevador. Adrián Ortiz Maciel
El hombre detrás de la máscara. Gabriela Obregón
Lejanía. Pablo Tamez Sierra
Oasis. Alejandro Cárdenas
Quebranto. Roberto Fiesco
Rosario. Shula Erenberg
Tochi. Misael Alva Alva
SHORT FILMS
La ahorcadita. Pierre Saint-Martin y Carlos Torres
Amor en tiempos de incendios. Gilberto González Penilla
B-boy. Abraham Escobedo Salas
Familia desconocida. Ezequiel Reyes
Fuera de foco. Adrián Arce y Antonio Zirión
El imaginario y su túnel. Javier Quiñones Sánchez y Javier Niño Barrios
Manos grandes. Roberto Olivares Ruiz
Mi punto de partida. Uriel López España
Las montañas invisibles. Ángel Linares
La Parka. Gabriel Serra
Parque Colosio. Bruno Varela
Túmin. Economía solidaria. Melissa Elizondo Moreno
Un salto de vida. Eugenio Polgovsky
A los ojos. Michel y Victoria Franco
Club Sándwich. Fernando Eimbcke
Las horas muertas. Aarón Fernández
Los insólitos peces gato. Claudia Sainte-Luce
La jaula de oro. Diego Quemada-Diez
Manto Acuífero. Michael Rowe
Paraíso. Mariana Chenillo
Penumbra. Eduardo Villanueva
Somos Mari Pepa. Samuel Kishi Leopo
La vida después. David Pablos
Workers. José Luis Valle
The 8th Morelia International Film Festival will be held from Oct. 16 to 24, 2010, and as in past years, will focus on its sections in competition: Mexican Short Film, Mexican Documentary, Michoacán Section and Mexican Feature Film. This year there will be 46 shorts, 20 documentaries, 13 Michoacán works and 7 features by directors from different states in Mexico: Michoacán, Nuevo León, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Yucatán, Baja California and Mexico City. Since 2008, the winner of the fiction and animated shorts will be considered for an Oscar nomination.