[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Special Screening Midnight Madness
PLASTIC GIRLS
Time: 22:00
Location: Túnel Del Sol
By: Juan Ramón Velázquez
On the streets of South Korea, robotic girls with fetishistic outfits and what could be called provocative attitudes that invite passers-by to all kinds of businesses, from convenience stores to gas stations and even to brothels and nightclubs, are frequent. Contributing to the sexualization of public spaces in this Asian country, these plastic girls make us reflect upon the sexuality of a gender that has become inert merchandise.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Special Screening 1968
ROJO AMANECER
Time: 16:00
Location: Cinemex Pozuelos
By: Juan Ramón Velázquez
This modern classic of Mexican cinema was the first film to deal directly with the student massacre that took place on Plaza de las Tres Culturas de Tlatelolco, an even that marked the end of the 1968 student movement in Mexico. Directed by Jorge Fons, a filmmaker who is part of the first generation of MExican filmmakers who graduated from Film School, Rojo Amanecer reflects upon the violence that impregnates our society affects a Mexican family that hasn’t done anything to deserve it in a brutal way; a story that repeats itself even today.[/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
Going South
Time: 18:00
Location: Auditorio de la Universidad de Guanajuato
By: Juan Ramón Velázquez
The apparent dissolution of real criteria and critical thinking which has been brought upon by our current information era have provoked a fertile space for the development of all kinds of hairbrained theories all over the Internet. Taking on the strangest of them —some think the world is flat and there’s a global conspiracy to cover it up—, Dominic Gagnon uses online clips to travel from the supposed Center of the Flat Earth to the Tropics, the glaciers and beyond. The people on the way share their truth in a frenetic mosaic that shows shopping lists, intimate profusions and conspiracy theories.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Special Screening Movies with Mummy (Swiss Fright Program)
IMPOSTEUR
Time: 23:59
Location: Panteón Santa Paula
By: Juan Ramón Velázquez
As part of our traditional Movies with Mummy program, which here in Guanajuato City will take place at the Santa Paula Cemetery, GIFF brings to you Swiss Fright, a selection of Swiss short films that will surely give you goosebumps. Among them, Imposteur tells the story that takes place on the perfect stage for these kinds of films: a city at night. There, a deer in human form tries to steal the identity of a man by tearing off his head and involving other innocent people in a disturbing confusion of species.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]