Followed by a discussion with both the evening's curators.

About the Film Retrospective:

Mexican cinema is booming! Out of all the outstanding films, this retrospective concentrates on three themes: Border(s), City and Modernity.

The border region was long depicted as a no-man’s-land full of violence, gangsters and drugs. The filmmakers of the nineties took quite a different view of the border. For them it is a fertile zone of interaction, a space for strengthening identity. Urban cinema shows border crossings of another kind. A central theme is Mexico City as a coordinate system of political, social and psychological changes. The complexity of metropolitan life is revealed over and over again, now playful, now brutal. The films on the third theme show “another modernity” which emphasizes and develops the unique identity which has emerged from an eventful and conflict-laden past.

Curators: Ivan Trujillo, chairman, and Francisco Ohem, deputy director of the Filmoteca at UNAM, Mexico’s Autonomous University.

In cooperation with the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía and the Filmoteca at UNAM | Coordination and organization: Doris Hegner | Moderator of the film discussions: Anne Huffschmid