August 15 is Mexican Film Day and, to celebrate it, we will be able to see 47 of the best national productions in their entirety free.
This Festival, sponsored by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine), will run from August 15 to 31 in CDMX .
The 24 short films and 23 feature films will be screened at the National Cinematheque of the Arts (📍 Río Churubusco 79, Country Club, Coyoacán). Eye: in this case the dates are August 16-22 in six venues.
They will also be available free of charge through ourcinema.mx.
The Program will pay tribute to Mexican artists Bertha Navarro and Busi Cortés.
The Mexican Film Day Billboard
The opera prima of the great Guillermo del Toro the Invention of Chronos, is one of the must-see titles of the exhibition.
The selection consists of classics as well as recent productions:
Digitized classics
- Cabeza de vaca (Cow’s head), by Nicolás Echevarría
- Cronos, by Guillermo del Toro
- Mexico Day, by Ruben Gamez
- Without support, by René Castillo
- Sonora, by Alejandro Springall
- A spell, by Carlos Carrera
Other feature films
- Valentina or serenity, by Ángeles Cruz
- Centennial, several directors
- Where the Birds Sleep, by Alejandro Alatorre
- Illuminated, by Jorge Curioca
- The poet of the ring, by Mariana Tames
- Yurei (Ghosts), by Sumi García
- The Inheritors, by Eugenio Polgovsky
- The Invisible Border, by Mariana Flores Villalba
Short Films on Mexican Film Day
- The Hero, by Carlos Carrera
- Ashen, by Gustavo Hernández de Anda
- Black crowns, by André Lô Sánchez
- Nisei (Second generation), by Jose Miguel Lino
- I can’t go on like this, by Aria Covamonas
- Descent, by Alejandro Aguirre Tanús
They will also have a Program children’s.
In addition to CDMX, the show will be available in 59 movie theaters in 22 other states in the country, such as Jalisco aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Campeche, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, among others.