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48 Mexican movies in the programming
Claire Denis graces the Monterrey International Film Festival 14th edition
July 31, 2018French director Claire Denis will receive the International Tribute to the Artistic Career from the Monterrey International Film Festival, which will celebrate its fourteenth edition from August 16 to 23 in the capital of Nuevo León.
This year, France is the guest of honor of the regiomontano film festival. During a press conference held on July 31st, Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira, audiovisual media attaché at the French Embassy in Mexico, said that they had worked on an ambitious program covering many areas.
It includes tributes to two central figures of its cinema. In the case of Claire Denis, for her "impressive career and filmography", said Mourão-Ferreira, because she is "someone who always tries to build a work that is an alternative proposal, very strong from a woman in whom the bodies of men have an important part".
This time the International Tribute to the Proffesional Career will be given to Pierre-Henri Deleau, producer and actor; someone with a fundamental role in the Cannes Film Festival. Particularly since May 1968, because he made possible "a very important change in the history of festivals by creating a new section, the Directors' Fortnight, which we are celebrating its fiftieth edition this year”. It will therefore be an opportunity to thank him for everything he has done to enable films from all countries to make themselves known in this section.
Ana Lilia Altamirano, head of Cultural and Cinematographic Promotion at the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine), spoke about the presence of national cinema at this meeting. "There are a total of 48 Mexican movies, including 11 feature films, six fiction films and five documentaries”.
Another novelty of FIC Monterrey is the Mexican premiere of Wim Wenders' most recent film. Pope Francis: a man of his word (2018), August 20 at Cinépolis Garza Sada.
Concerning Mexican tributes, producer Bertha Navarro’s artistic career celebration will take place on 2018, a promoter of Latin American cinema today. The actress Blanca Guerra, who has worked on more than 120 movies and is a member of the Academy of Hollywood since this year, will also be honored.
Now with 14 editions, FIC Monterrey has maintained a constant relationship with federal institutions that have continuously supported these meetings, which promote cinema throughout the country.
In an interview with the Department of Culture, the director of the festival, Juan Manuel González, said that "everything comes from an important balance. An event such as ours, which arises from civil society, is maintained and achieves transcendence over the years precisely because of the support it receives from the institutions that support it. The Department of Culture has been very important, as the Council for Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León, the UANL or Cinépolis did”.
Gonzalez clarified that in FIC Monterrey is an event thought for the public, especially because they are lucky to have the university public. "We've seen how our audience remains, although it's growing, and most of them are between 18 and 30 years old. They're kids who are very interested in movies”.
That is why it is important that the festival offers performances free of charge, says Juan Manuel, "we are going to high schools, to 10 cultural centers, secondary schools and towns. We're even going to project in the guardianship of minors and women at Cereso (social rehabilitation center). The idea is to take cinema where we can take it. For us it is a vehicle of communication and transformation. What cinema leaves you, at the end of the day, builds you”.
The Monterrey Film Festival is being held with the support of the Department of Culture of the Government of the Republic, the Council for Culture and Arts of Nuevo León (Conarte), the French Embassy in Mexico, Cinépolis Art Gallery, the Secretariat of Extension and Culture of the UANL, and the Imcine.
With 90 movies in competition and around 200 titles on display, FIC Monterrey opens with a screening of Bárbara de Mathieu Amalric on August 16 at the Gran Sala del Teatro de la Ciudad.
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