Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia

10/27/2021

Festival Reviews

CINE VERDICT: Endangered

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

En Endangered las documentalistas Heidi Ewing y Rachel Grady hablan con urgencia pero sin sensacionalismo al reportar los peligros que enfrenta la prensa en lugares sin conflicto armado declarado.

Endangered

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

In Endangered documentarists Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady are urgent but never sensationalistic in reporting on the dangers faced by the press in places where there is no official armed conflict.

Venus

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

Catalonian director and horror specialist Jaume Balaguero’s latest offering is a messy and almost incoherent tale of demonic uprising.

CINE VERDICT: Venus

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

La más reciente película del director catalán y especialista en horror Jaume Balagueró es una desordenada y casi incoherente historia de surgimiento diabólico.

Morelia 2022: The Verdict

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 31, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022, The Festival Verdict

Women directed most of the Mexican films in Morelia this year, diving into tough subjects like violence, the position of women and LGBTQ issues.

Red Shoes

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 29, 2022 | Morelia, Morelia 2022

Eichelmann Kaiser’s feature, which bowed at Venice and Morelia, is a modest but promising debut.

Wheatfield

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 27, 2022 | Morelia, Morelia 2022

Mexican writer-director Anabel Caso’s debut is a languid, beautifully observed coming-of-age story.

Huesera

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 25, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

A fascinating if uneven story of motherhood and body horror from Mexico.

Lost Flowers

by Ben Nicholson | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Morelia, Thessaloniki, Transilvania

In his diaristic portrait of grief during the isolation of lockdown, Fabrizio Maltese has crafted a personal documentary full of universal poignancy.

The Hostilities

by Patricia Boero | Jan 6, 2022 | Festivals, IDFA, Morelia

The winner of Morelia’s best documentary award is a raw, honest chronicle of the violence afflicting Mexico, seen through the lives of the filmmaker’s own family.

Morelia 2021: The Verdict

by Boyd van Hoeij | Nov 15, 2021 | Festivals, Morelia, The Festival Verdict

Festivals with a national competition offer something quite unique in that it’s possible, in a week or ten days, to take the pulse of a country’s cinema and, by extension, the country itself. Which themes speak to filmmakers — or which themes do filmmakers think...

50 (or Two Whales Meet at the Beach)

by Boyd van Hoeij | Nov 14, 2021 | Morelia

Two young Mexicans are desperate to feel something in Jorge Cuchí’s impressive but hard-to-watch film about suicidal teens.

Sol’s Journey

by Boyd van Hoeij | Nov 9, 2021 | Festivals, Morelia

Ace actress Anajosé Aldrete stars as the desperate mother of a kidnapped son in Claudia Sainte-Luce’s modest but powerful film.

Estación Catorce

by Boyd van Hoeij | Nov 6, 2021 | Festivals, Morelia

Diana Cardozo looks at the world of Mexican adults from a child’s point of view in this charming and nuanced film.

Journeys

by Boyd van Hoeij | Nov 6, 2021 | Festivals, Morelia

An impressively staged indie that explores the idea of success on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Letters from a Distance

by Patricia Boero | Oct 29, 2021 | Festivals, Morelia

Juan Carlos Rulfo has composed his own “Love in the Time of Covid”, a deeply moving chronicle of Mexico’s pandemic response.

Cruz

by Patricia Boero | Oct 19, 2021 | Festivals, Morelia

Teresa Camou Guerrero’s poetic, heartbreaking documentary follows an indigenous Mexican family displaced by violent drug traffickers who struggle to return to their homelands.

Prayers for the Stolen

by Deborah Young | Sep 28, 2021 | Festivals, Morelia, Oscar shortlist, Spotlight

Three little girls grow up in a village terrorized by the drug cartels in Tatiana Huezo’s dreamy and terrifying first feature, which won San Sebastian’s Latin Horizons crown.

The Hole in the Fence

by Boyd van Hoeij | Sep 9, 2021 | Morelia, Toronto

Joaquin del Paso’s intense Mexican drama spirals out of control, just like its protagonists.

CINE VERDICT: Endangered

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

En Endangered las documentalistas Heidi Ewing y Rachel Grady hablan con urgencia pero sin sensacionalismo al reportar los peligros que enfrenta la prensa en lugares sin conflicto armado declarado.

Endangered

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

In Endangered documentarists Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady are urgent but never sensationalistic in reporting on the dangers faced by the press in places where there is no official armed conflict.

Venus

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

Catalonian director and horror specialist Jaume Balaguero’s latest offering is a messy and almost incoherent tale of demonic uprising.

CINE VERDICT: Venus

by TheFilmVerdict | Nov 2, 2022 | Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

La más reciente película del director catalán y especialista en horror Jaume Balagueró es una desordenada y casi incoherente historia de surgimiento diabólico.

Morelia 2022: The Verdict

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 31, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022, The Festival Verdict

Women directed most of the Mexican films in Morelia this year, diving into tough subjects like violence, the position of women and LGBTQ issues.

Red Shoes

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 29, 2022 | Morelia, Morelia 2022

Eichelmann Kaiser’s feature, which bowed at Venice and Morelia, is a modest but promising debut.

Wheatfield

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 27, 2022 | Morelia, Morelia 2022

Mexican writer-director Anabel Caso’s debut is a languid, beautifully observed coming-of-age story.

Huesera

by Boyd van Hoeij | Oct 25, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Morelia 2022

A fascinating if uneven story of motherhood and body horror from Mexico.

Lost Flowers

by Ben Nicholson | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Morelia, Thessaloniki, Transilvania

In his diaristic portrait of grief during the isolation of lockdown, Fabrizio Maltese has crafted a personal documentary full of universal poignancy.

The Hostilities

by Patricia Boero | Jan 6, 2022 | Festivals, IDFA, Morelia

The winner of Morelia’s best documentary award is a raw, honest chronicle of the violence afflicting Mexico, seen through the lives of the filmmaker’s own family.

Awards Corner

Morelia

for
50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
Director: Jorge Cuchi
for
The Other Tom (Mexico)
Director: Rodigo Pla and Laura Santullo
for
Nudo mixteco (Mexico)
Angeles Cruz
for
50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
José Antonio Toledano
for
50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
Karla Coronado
for
Las hostilidades (Mexico)
Director: M. Sebastian Molina