7 DAYS

"El Clavel Negro" (The Black Pimpernel) will open FICMTY 07 in less than a week. The film is a Mexican-Swedish-Danish co-production and it will have its North and Latin American premiere at the festival.

The film will be accompanied by the cast and crew, including producers Raquel Guajardo and Michael Lunderskov as well as directors Åsa Faringer and Ulf Hultberg. From the cast, Kate del Castillo, Lumi Cavazos, Lisa Werlinder, Carsten Norgaard and Rolando Garza will be at the Red Carpet for the Festival inauguration and the film´s premiere.


Many other celebrities and personalities will be at the inauguration, which starts off activities for the festival at many other locations including:

MMCinemas Muestra Alterna (4 theatres)
MMCinemas Humberto Lobo (2 theatres)
Nuevo León Cinematheque (2 theatres)
Sala Guajardo (1 theatre)
Cinema Fósforo (1 theatre)

We hope to see you there!!!!

They took them alive

"Vivos los llevaron, vivos los queremos" (alive they took them, alive we want them) is a documentary about political dissappearances in 1970´s Monterrey. Mrs. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra (second from right in the photo) is one of the leading activists claiming the return of their sons and loved ones.

Cecilia Serna (last one on the right in the photo) directed the film which is now participating in the VISION SOCIAL section of the Festival. Vision Social (Social Vision) is a section dedicated to films that explores issues relevant to the filmmakers community. It is non competitive because of the nature of the films, which can be shorts, medium length or features, documentary, fiction or a mix of both. The aim is to highlight the positive uses of the medium to better societies and the world. Film (and film festivals) has a responsability to the community, and Visión Social is an effort to acknowledge it.

"Vivos los llevaron, vivos los queremos" will be playing at MMCinemas Tec, theater 4 on August 17th.

World Shorts

Some fantastic shorts from all over the globe have been selected for this non-competitive section.

Rojeki Bafri
(A Snowy Day)
Director: Hossein Jehani
País: Australia e Irak

Al otro lado del mar
(In the other side of the sea)
Director: Patricia Ortega
País: Venezuela

Bo Kata
Director: Shehzad Afzal
País: Escocia y Pakistan

Men´s Realm
Director: Galina Adamovich
País: Belorusia

Peniskateus
(Penis Envy)
Director: Marjo Viitala
País: Finlandia

Yono y Seo
(Yono and Seo)
Director: Natalia Rega
País: España

Watani Habibi
(My Beloved Homeland)
Director: John Mandelberg
País: Nueva Zelanda y Palestina

Seungbo, Jungin
Director: Joon – hyun Lee
País: República de Coréa

L.A. Noir
Director: Conrado Jackson
País: Estados Unidos

Ghennawa leltear
(A song for the birds)
Director: Atteia Eldardeer
País: Egipto

Pick Up
Director: Manuel Schapira
País: Francia

De Frontera a frontera - From Border to Border

From the Rio Bravo, to Guatemala and Belize, from Baja to Yucatán, Mexico is a country that is diverse, multicultural and rich. From many communities around the country, films sprout from production houses, independent collectives, and strong spirited artists. These films make up De Frontera a Frontera


¿A quién le importa?
Director: Cesar Guevara
País: México

Infierno Grande
Director: Octavio Gasca
País: México

Karma
Director: Fernando Santoyo
País: México

Le passiou du rouge
Director: Alex Aguilera
País: México

La pena de Diego
Director: Martín Gavica
País: México

Lección
Director: Oscar Urrutia
País: México

Término medio
Director: Marco A. Barajas
País: México

Recent Monterrey Cinema Showcase

A collection of recent Monterrey produced shorts.

Chanzas
Director: Erick Fuantoise
País: México

Dos agentes
Director: Gabriel Guzmán
País: México

En el papel
Director: Martin Bautista M.
País: México

Entre líneas
Director: Martin Bautista M.
País: México

Janeth Jamilet
Director: Jorge F. Moreno
País: México

Preludio
Director: Gian Cassini
País: México

Somos diferentes
Director: Alfonso C. Escamilla
País: México

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Social Vision

Social Vision is a selection of films, shorts, medium length and features, that deal with social issues that are relevant to the filmmakers´ communities. It is non-competitive as to maintain the integrity and spirit of the films that make up the selection.


Leaving Transylvania
Director: Dieter Auner
Ireland - Romania

La Joya
Director: Abner Benaim
Panama

El Cajón con alma negra
Director: Claudia Ruíz
Peru - Switzerland

Alcanzando sueños
Director: Beatríz Perez Martin
Spain

Vivos los llevaron, vivos los queremos
(They were taken alive, we want them back alive)
Director: Cecilia Serna
México

Raak me waar ik voelen kan
(Touch me some place I can feel)
Director: Simone de Vries
Netherlands

La Mallorquina – Homenaje en cinco actos
(The Mallorquina - A tribute in five acts)
Director: Enrique Ríos
Switzerland

Alena´s Strawberry Farm
Director: Xiaoxiao Sun
United Kingdom

Antes, um dia e depois
(Earlier, one day and later)
Director: Caio Cavechini
Brazil

Hilmi Shusha Met Meatzmo
(The boy who died of fear)
Director: Idit Avrahami
Israel

Cartoneros
Director: Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Argentina - United States

The New Los Angeles
Director: Lyn Goldfarb
United States

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Short Film Animation

15 shorts. CGI. Hand drawn. Clay. Rotoscope. Many forms and techniques. Always surprising, always touching, always fantastic.


Verschlossen
(Closed)
Director: Albert Radl
Germany

Spegelbarn
(Looking Glass)
Director: Erik Rosenlund
Sweden

El gorrito de Morfeo
Director: Raúl García
México

Voodoo Bayou
Director: Javier Gutiérrez
México

Le pauvre histoire du maraud
(The sad story of knave)
Director: Anne Larricq
France

De la vista nace el amor
(Love at first sight)
Director: Miguel Anaya
México

Broken Wire
Director: Juan C. Mostaza
Spain

Violeta: La pescadora del Mar Negro
Director: Marc Riba y Anna Solanas
Spain

Dog Days
Director: Geoffroy de Crécy
France

Apnée
(Apnee)
Director: Claude Chabot
France

Raymond
Director: Bif
France-United Kingdom

The Children
Director: Chia-Yu Huang
Taiwan

One Rat Short
Director: Alex Weil
United States

Message for the Neighbours
Director: Priit Tender
Estonia

458 NM
Director: Jan Blitzer, Ilija Brunck y Tom Weber
Germany