[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Official Selection Fiction<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
EXCUSE ME, I\u2019M LOOKING FOR THE PING-PONG ROOM AND MY GIRLFRIEND<\/b><\/p>\n
Time: <\/i><\/b>12:00<\/span><\/p>\n Location: <\/i><\/b>Auditorio de la Universidad de Guanajuato<\/span><\/p>\n By: <\/i><\/b>Juan Ram\u00f3n Vel\u00e1zquez<\/span><\/p>\n The world of high-class relaxation centers can become a metaphysical environment, as this short film portrays when a couple faces a conflict not knowing what they seek \u2014as the title suggests. It\u2019s director, Bernhard Wenger, studies Directing and Producing at the Vienna Film Academy. His short film <\/span>Keeping Balance <\/span><\/i>was launched online as a Vimeo Staff Pick and <\/span>Exit Right <\/span><\/i>was a viral success.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Official Selection Mexico<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n VELVET<\/b><\/p>\n Time: <\/i><\/b>13:00<\/span><\/p>\n Location: <\/i><\/b>Teatro Principal<\/span><\/p>\n By: <\/i><\/b>Juan Ram\u00f3n Vel\u00e1zquez<\/span><\/p>\n This short film is about the transformation of two friend, Ale and Rub\u00e9n, who see the course of their friendship altered by a literally cosmis event: the passing of a celestial body (the imaginary Velvet comet) through the MExico City skies. <\/span>Velvet<\/span><\/i> is directed by Paula Hopf, a graduate from Centro de Capacitaci\u00f3n Cinematogr\u00e1fica who also made <\/span>A\u00f1os Luz<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>La casa de Los L\u00fapulos<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> as well as advertising projects, series and fashion films. She\u2019s currently preparing her feature debut, <\/span>Una muchacha normal<\/span><\/i>, with the help of IMCINE\u2019s Storyline Development fund.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Official Selection Documentary<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n SOY<\/b><\/p>\n Time: <\/i><\/b>17:00<\/span><\/p>\n Location: <\/i><\/b>Teatro Principal<\/span><\/p>\n By: <\/i><\/b>Juan Ram\u00f3n Vel\u00e1zquez<\/span><\/p>\n Denise Kelm, director of <\/span>Soy<\/span><\/i>, studied directing at EICTV in Cuba. Her films have been awarded at festivals such as Curta 8 and One Minute. This short film, about a girl trapped in the media maelstorm after the death of Fidel Castro, won the Special Jury Prize for Student Documentaries at IDFA.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Official Selection Documentary<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n BONFIRES<\/b><\/p>\n Time: <\/i><\/b>17:00<\/span><\/p>\n Location: <\/i><\/b>Teatro Principal<\/span><\/p>\n By: <\/i><\/b>Juan Ram\u00f3n Vel\u00e1zquez<\/span><\/p>\n Violent conflicts are a permanent danger in any location with human beings. The political-religious problem in Northern Ireland is deeply grounded in the region\u2019s history and is one of the themes of this documentary. The protestant people of Northern Ireland light bonfires every July 11 to commemorate William de Orange at the Battle of the Boyne. They consider it a sign of identity affirmation, but the Catholics find it arrogant and humiliating.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Official Selection Fiction EXCUSE ME, I\u2019M LOOKING FOR THE PING-PONG ROOM AND MY GIRLFRIEND Time: 12:00 Location: Auditorio de la Universidad de Guanajuato By: Juan Ram\u00f3n Vel\u00e1zquez The world of high-class relaxation centers can become a metaphysical environment, as this short film portrays when a couple faces a conflict not knowing what they seek […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20395,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions\/20395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}