[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]E[/eltdf_dropcaps]very year the Association of Women in Film and Television awards The Muse, a beautiful statue created by Elena Somonte, to two women with a renowned career in cinema. On this ocassion the recognition was for premiere actresses, Evangelina Elizondo and Patricia Reyes Spíndola, who also recieved the Silver Cross which was...Continue Reading

GTO Saturday 30 13:00 hrs Sala Euquerio Guerrero [eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]A[/eltdf_dropcaps]fter the first atomic bomb went off, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist considered to be the “father of the atomic bomb” quoted Bhagavad Gita: «Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds». Yasuaki Yamashita, an hibakusha (survivor of the bombings) who was six...Continue Reading

[vc_row][vc_column width=»1/3″][vc_single_image image=»14560″ img_size=»full»][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] FACES OF A FIG TREE 16:00 hrs. – Sala Euquerio Guerrero – Guanajuato With the presence of the director Kaori Momoi, this year Tributee. The Kadowaki family lives in a traditional wooden house with a fig tree in the garden. Mr. Kadowaki maintains suspicions about other women in the life of...Continue Reading

[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]Y[/eltdf_dropcaps]esterday the Principal Theater hosted the long awaited Master Class of Master Masato Harada, an internationally renowned director from GIFF’s Spotlight Country and who was paid tribute to this year by GIFF. Harada recalled his first encounters with cinema which include Fred Zinneman’s The Search and his mentor and maximum influence Howard...Continue Reading

[vc_row][vc_column width=»1/2″][vc_column_text] Panamerican Machinery Official Selection Mexican Feature Dir. Joaquín Del Paso GTO | Saturday 30 | 14:00 hrs | Juárez Theater The Richter Scale says: The future is scary. Even when we have an idea, we can never be sure exactly where we’re going and we don’t know whether what the future holds includes everything...Continue Reading

The Guanajuato International Film Festival is honored to be hosting the world premiere of Rafa Lara’s most recent film, a romantic comedy that explores the relationship between a Mexican woman whose appearance strays from what people might call “beauty” and her exboss, a typical aristocratic playboy used to seducing these women that most would label...Continue Reading

[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]E[/eltdf_dropcaps]very Harada film is a work of passion, a style that avoids any pretention for revolutionizing a genre in vain, and centers on the admirable task of maintaining in his artistic will, without pretenses or contemporary allegories beyond the simple act of telling a great story. Harada is a fan of fantasy...Continue Reading

[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]P[/eltdf_dropcaps]ersonalities such as Jacobo Lieberman, Kaz Utzunomiya, Gabriel Turielle and Mario Bustamante, among others in the music and film industries will sit down for a Dialogue Forum at noon to talk about the transcendence of images and music in film, whose relevant inclusion allows to express events, thoughts and ideas that can...Continue Reading

Thursday 28 Guanajuato City, Alhóndiga de Granaditas 21 hrs. With over 30 million records sold and a record 18 sold out nights at the Tokyo Dome, X Japan represents the history of rock, heavy metal and Japanese glam. Their unique look and style inspired a cultural phenomenon in Japan called Visual Kei, a movement that extended worldwide....Continue Reading