By Doris Alba
Committed to supporting and promoting Mexican cinema, the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF) announces the Mexican films that will be part of its diverse program as part of this year’s Official Selection. The XXV edition of the Guanajuato film festival will take place from July 21 to 31 in León, San Miguel de Allende and Irapuato, offering feature and short films, including fiction, documentaries, animation, experimental and virtual reality. With a program ideal for all tastes, the festival showcases the great variety of talent that currently exists in the national film industry. A total of 57 Mexican titles will be screened, including 15 feature films and 42 short films.
The national competition is made up of an outstanding mix of films that represent the Mexican cinema of the moment. These films tell stories that reflect the diversity of points of view offered by Mexican filmmakers. Ten feature films and 21 short films will be screened in the Mexico Official Selection and 13 titles in the Guanajuato Official Selection.
Celebrating our cinema and its creative richness, GIFF announces the Mexican feature films in competition for its 25th edition:
Mexican Feature Film Official Selection
Breaking la vida, Dir. Abraham Escobedo-Salas, 2022, Mexico
Donde duermen los pájaros, Dir. Alejandro Alatorre, 2021, Mexico
Efímera, Dir. Luis Mariano García, 2021, Mexico
El encierro vol. 1, Dir. Santiago Fábregas/ Santiago Maza, 2021, Mexico/Spain/Argentina
La Vida es un Carnaval, Dir. Fernando Colin Roque, 2021, Mexico/France
What We Left Behind, Dir. Iliana Sosa, 2022, Mexico/United States
Don’t Go to Class Tomorrow, Dir. Diego Barragan, 2021, Mexico
Oliverio y la piscina, Dir. Arcadi Palerm Artis, 2021, Mexico
Roza, dir. Andrés Rodríguez, 2021, Guatemala/Mexico
Teorema de tiempo, Dir. Andrés Kaiser, 2022, Mexico
On the other hand, in this edition, GIFF is pleased to show a wide range of national short films; 21 titles that show a vast panorama of the cinematographic work in the country, the Official Short Film Mexico Selection presents the following titles:
1/4 Ante Meridiem, Dir. Alex Noppel, 2022, Mexico.
Avrocar, Dir. Matthew Sanabria, 2022, Mexico
Cola de rata, Dir. José Armando Salomo Rosas, 2022, Mexico
Concertina, Dir. Gabriel González Acosta, 2021, Mexico
Corpúsculo, Dir. Léa Soler, 2021, Mexico
De la nada, Dir. Pablo Balderas, 2022, Mexico
El año del radio, Dir. Samuel Kishi Leopo, 2022, Mexico
Exhumados, Dir. Rodrigo Moreno Esquivel, 2022, Mexico
Interior Seis, Dir. Mauricio Sánchez Arias, 2022, Mexico
Go and Return, Dir. José Permar, 2022, Mexico/ Belgium/ Hungary
La Baláhna, Dir. Xóchitl Enriquez Mendoza, 2022, Mexico
Llueve, Dir. Magali Rocha Donnadieu/ Carolina Corral Paredes, 2021, Mexico
Lux Noctis, Dir. Damiana Acuña, 2021, United States
No te agüites, Dir. Juan Vicente Manrique Gómez, 2021, México/ Venezuela
Noventa y dos lágrimas, Dir. Fernanda Camacho, 2021, Mexico
Para perecer, Dir. Sebastián Grisales, 2022, Mexico
Pitbull, Dir. Fabián León López, 2022, Mexico
Reykjavík, Dir. Irving Uribe Nares, 2021, Mexico
Breaking the Pact, Dir. Ianis Guerrero, 2022, Mexico
Tickle Where it Hurts, Dir. Esteban A. Catalán, 2021, Mexico
Tigre, tigre, Dir. Mauricio Sáenz-Cánovas, 2022, Mexico
As every year, the Guanajuato Official Selection offers a perspective of the cinema produced in our state, screening the most outstanding short films from Guanajuato. In this edition the short films to be shown are:
8.24.Cuarentay3, Dir. Christian Cornejo, 2022, Mexico.
Carlota, Dir. Malu Solís, 2021, Mexico
El grillo, Dir. Carlos Hernández Vázquez, 2021, Mexico
El Nidal, Dir. Ashley Todd Fell/ Michael James Wright, 2021, Mexico
El último eslabón, Dir. Gerardo Hernández Contreras, 2021, Mexico
Hombrecito, Dir. Mario Martínez Chávez, 2022, Mexico
Hoya, Dir. Mauricio Aguilar, 2022, Mexico
La Cuarta Puerta, Dir. Hugo Magaña, 2021, Mexico
La frontera, Dir. Christian Arredondo Narváez, 2022, Mexico
La Nevería, Dir. Alejandro Aguilera Pantoja, 2022, Mexico
Nights on Fire, Dir. Andre Michel, 2022, Mexico
Serranilla, Dir. Nicolás Gutiérrez Wenhammar, 2021, Mexico
Valtierra, Dir. Juan Pablo Elorriaga, 2021, Mexico
