This year we honor Japan, a country with a long tradition of excellence in cinema with filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki.Continue Reading

GIFF came of age. Now considered an adult, the Guanajuato International Film Festival concluded one more year of intensive film screenings, concerts, conferences and other events. Throughout the years, the Festival has expanded and the family has grown creating links between Mexico and several countries all over the world. Every year the organizers seek to...Continue Reading

Dir. Isaac Ezban Special Screening – Movies with Mummy The Richter Scale says: Time is a prison. We spend our entire lives inside it and the only way out of it is death. Like any prison, we look for ways to entertain ourselves and forget we’re prisoners of time. We work, we walk, we play,...Continue Reading

Best Feature Film Mexico: Lucifer (dir. Gust van den Berghe; Mexico, Belgium) For its poetry, built through a mundane and concrete language, its radicalism in aesthetics and form. The courage and audacity of the proposal and the direction of actors that lets the actors appear as non-actors and non-actors seem like actors. Film Info Mention...Continue Reading

Our most recent edition of the Guanajuato International Film Festival , the edition in which it has come of age, has reached its end and just like every year, winners have to be announced among the films in competition. For the categories for International Feature Film, the jury that selected the winners was made up...Continue Reading

10:00 am Life (2015) Visiting Feature || Auditorium of the University of Guanajuato   12:00 pm Official Selection Documentary Shorts || Juárez Theater Official Selection Experimental Shorts || Principal Theater Kids in Action: Short Films || Cinemex Plaza Pozuelos Official Selection Mexico Shorts || Cinemas Guanajuato Remake, Remix, rip-off / Motör: Kpya Kültürü ve Popüler...Continue Reading

Dir. Celso García Official Selection Feature Mexico The Richter Scale says: We all need a guide. Life is too complicated and overwhelming to have to go through it alone, which is why it’s important to have a guide to give you an idea where you’re going. One example is the yellow line in the middle...Continue Reading

Dir. Bernardo Arellano Official Selection Feature Mexico The Richter Scale says: Who can one count on? Whenever you need something, who is the person that’s always there to help? Can you count on family? We would like to think so, but eventually family members make their own lives and you’re never sure you can count...Continue Reading

In this third Red Carpet event presented in Guanajuato City within the Guanajuato International Film Festival (where many of this year’s participants, including the Series Lab panelists, were present) the most recent film by last year’s honoree Anton Corbijn was presented in the Juárez Theater, where last year he introduced Mexico to A Most Wanted...Continue Reading