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[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]E[/eltdf_dropcaps]very beginning has an ending and that is why this nineteenth edition of the Guanajuato International Film Festival bids farewell ith its Closing Ceremony. Throughout the week the audience was able to see the movies that competed in the different categories of GIFF’s Official Selection and this Closing Ceremony will announce the […]

[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]T[/eltdf_dropcaps]he Principal Theater filled up to the very last seat to receive this year’s beloved National Tributee, Demián Bichir. Beginning with a video profile that showed a glimpse of the life of the career of the soccer-loving vagabond (whom his mother says he could never sit still) and a few words from […]

[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]R[/eltdf_dropcaps]enowned cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt will offer a Master Class today at noon, at Juárez Theater. Goldblatt was born on April 29, 1945 in Johannesburg, South Africa. His family moved him to London when he was seven years old and it was here where, at age 18, he started working as a photojournalist for […]

[eltdf_dropcaps type=»normal» color=»» background_color=»»]T[/eltdf_dropcaps]he saying goes there’s no such thing as a «fifth wheel» and the last day of GIFF concerts confirms this. After four successful days that beat the weather conditions, the Music + Cinema program closed its activities yesterday with a concert featuring three Mexican rock bands. The concert began with synth rock […]

[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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]