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.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
10/27/2021
Festival Reviews
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
Catalonian director and horror specialist Jaume Balaguero’s latest offering is a messy and almost incoherent tale of demonic uprising.
CINE VERDICT: Venus
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
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
Eichelmann Kaiser’s feature, which bowed at Venice and Morelia, is a modest but promising debut.
Wheatfield
Mexican writer-director Anabel Caso’s debut is a languid, beautifully observed coming-of-age story.
Huesera
A fascinating if uneven story of motherhood and body horror from Mexico.
Lost Flowers
In his diaristic portrait of grief during the isolation of lockdown, Fabrizio Maltese has crafted a personal documentary full of universal poignancy.
The Hostilities
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
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)
Two young Mexicans are desperate to feel something in Jorge Cuchí’s impressive but hard-to-watch film about suicidal teens.
Sol’s Journey
Ace actress Anajosé Aldrete stars as the desperate mother of a kidnapped son in Claudia Sainte-Luce’s modest but powerful film.
Estación Catorce
Diana Cardozo looks at the world of Mexican adults from a child’s point of view in this charming and nuanced film.
Journeys
An impressively staged indie that explores the idea of success on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.
Letters from a Distance
Juan Carlos Rulfo has composed his own “Love in the Time of Covid”, a deeply moving chronicle of Mexico’s pandemic response.
Cruz
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
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
Joaquin del Paso’s intense Mexican drama spirals out of control, just like its protagonists.
CINE VERDICT: 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
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
Catalonian director and horror specialist Jaume Balaguero’s latest offering is a messy and almost incoherent tale of demonic uprising.
CINE VERDICT: Venus
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
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
Eichelmann Kaiser’s feature, which bowed at Venice and Morelia, is a modest but promising debut.
Wheatfield
Mexican writer-director Anabel Caso’s debut is a languid, beautifully observed coming-of-age story.
Huesera
A fascinating if uneven story of motherhood and body horror from Mexico.
Lost Flowers
In his diaristic portrait of grief during the isolation of lockdown, Fabrizio Maltese has crafted a personal documentary full of universal poignancy.
The Hostilities
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
- Ojo for Best Mexican Feature Film
50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
Director: Jorge Cuchi - Ojo for
The Other Tom (Mexico)
Director: Rodigo Pla and Laura Santullo - Best Mexican Fiction Feature Screenplay for
Nudo mixteco (Mexico)
Angeles Cruz - Ojito for Best Actor
50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
José Antonio Toledano - Ojito for Best Actress
50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach (Mexico)
Karla Coronado - Ojito for Best Mexican Documentary Feature
Las hostilidades (Mexico)
Director: M. Sebastian Molina