The Morelia Film Festival has unveiled this morning the 91 titles that have been selected as part of their 18th annual edition, which will be a combination of in-person and virtual screenings. The 2020 edition of the Mexican films festival proves to be another solid year for local production with the selection of numerous films that have been doing the rounds in the international film festival circuit.
The Mexican Feature Film competition will host the local premieres of Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson’s coming of age drama Summer White / Blanco de verano, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival; Fauna, the ninth feature film by prolific Nicolás Pereda, which will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, followed by the New York Film Festival; and Fernanda Valadez’s powerful immigration drama Identifying Features / Sin señas particulares, which won the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay in the World Cinema Dramatic competition.
The other films participating in the fiction competition are Amalgama by Carlos Cuarón (Rudo y Cursi), ¡Ánimo juventud! by Carlos Armella, La diosa del asfalto by Julián Hernández (I Am Happiness on Earth), Fuego adentro by Jesús Mario Lozano, Ricochet by Rodrigo Fiallega, and Todo lo invisible by Mariana Chenillo (Nora’s Will).
The Mexican documentary competition will present the local premiere of Rodrigo Reyes’ hybrid documentary 499, winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and a Special Jury Mention at the Hot Docs Film Festival; Laura Herrero Garvín’s La Mami, which had its world premiere last year at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA); Bruno Santamaría’s documentary fable Things We Dare Not Do / Cosas que no hacemos; and the omnibus film Ciudad directed by Maya Goded (Plaza de la Soledad), Julio Hernández Cordón (Buy Me a Gun), Nuria Ibáñez (A Wild Stream), and Carlos F. Rossini (The Mayor).
The other documentary titles in competition are Las flores de la noche by Eduardo Esquivel, Omar Robles, Kuxlejal (Vida) by Elke Franke, No son horas de olvidar by David Castañón Medina, Non Western by Laura Plancarte, Tu´un Savi by Uriel López España, La vocera by Luciana Kaplan, and Yermo by Everardo González.
The 18th edition of the Morelia Film Festival will take place October 28 - November 1. Watch the festival’s official spot:
