After being postponed for about nine months, the 35th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) will take place in a hybrid format between November 20-28. One of the leading film festivals in Latin America, this year’s edition of FICG will have more than fifty feature-length films participating in official competitions, with more than twenty countries being represented.
Competing for the Mezcal Award, presented to the best Mexican film of the festival, are Ana Laura Calderón’s Mezquite's Heart / Corazón de mezquite, José Ramón Chávez’s After You / Después de ti, Gerardo Naranjo’s Kokoloko, Samuel Kishi Leopo’s Los Lobos, Sandra Solares’ Ni tuyo, ni mía, Gabriela Ivette Sandoval’s Ok, It´s Fine… / Ok, está bien..., Yulene Olaizola’s Tragic Jungle / Selva trágica, Rodrigo Sepúlveda’s My Tender Matador / Tengo miedo torero, Julio Berthely’s Faust / Yo Fausto, and the documentary films Border South by Raúl Paz-Pastrana and The Spokeswoman / La Vocera by Luciana Kaplan,
Latin American films competing for the Best Ibero-American Feature Film Award are the Cuban film August / Agosto by Armando Capó Ramos; the Chilean films Spider / Araña by Andrés Wood and Piola by Luis Alejandro Pérez; the Peruvian film The Clash / La bronca by Daniel and Diego Vega; the Guatemalan films The Ghosts / Los fantasmas by Sebastián Lojo and La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante; the Brazilian film Son of Ox / Filho de Boi by Haroldo Borges; the Venezuelan film La Fortaleza by Jorge Thielen Armand; the Argentine films Maternal / Hogar by Maura Delpero and Karnawal by Juan Pablo Félix; the Mexican film Los Lobos by Leopo; and the Bolivian film Tu Me Manques by Rodrigo Bellott.
Participating in the Ibero-American Documentary competition are the Cuban films In a Whisper /A media voz by Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández, and Brouwer. The Origin of the Shadow / Brouwer. El origen de la sombra by Katherine T. Gavilán and Lisandra López Fabé; the Costa Rican film Moving So Slowly/ Avanzaré tan despacio (que te parecerá que retrocedo) by Natalia Solórzano; the Peruvian film The Song of the Butterfies / El canto de las mariposas by Núria Frigola; the Brazilian film My Darling Supermarket / Meu Querido Supermercado by Tali Yankelevich; the Nicaraguan film The White Myth / El mito blanco by Gabriel Serra; and the Colombian film The Second Burial of Alejandrino / El segundo entierro de Alejandrino by Raúl Soto.
Additionally, the Argentine film The Longleg /El Patalarga by Mercedes Moreira will compete for the International Animated Feature Film Award, along with other films from France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, and Spain.
Competing for the Maguey Award, bestowed to the best LGTBQ+ themed film, are the Mexican films Ánima by Kuno Becker and Winter Song / Canción de invierno by Silvana Lázaro; the Argentine films Young Hunter / El cazador by Marco Berger and One In a Thousand / Las mil y una by Clarisa Navas; the Brazilian film Dry Wind /Vento Seco by Daniel Nolasco, plus Karnawal, The Ghosts, My Tender Matador, and Tu me manques, also competing for the the Mezcal Award.
In addition, the festival will feature a wide selection of Peruvian cinema, the guest of honor of the current edition. The selection features several films by renowned director Francisco Lombardi, including Under the Skin / Bajo la piel, In the Mouth of the Wolf / La boca del lobo, allen from the Sky / Caídos del cielo, and The City and the Dogs / La ciudad y los perros. The selection also includes the documentary film Máxima by Claudia Sparrow and Wiñaypacha by Óscar Catacora, the first Peruvian film shot entirely in the indigenous Aymara language.
