Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, or FICCO (Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo) for its initials in Spanish was an annual film festival founded by film producers Michel Lipkes and Paula Astorga in February 2004.[1] The festival ran for seven years, ending in 2010 and reopened in 2014 for Narrative only Film.
| Location | Mexico City |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Hosted by | Cinemax |
It quickly become one of the most important film festivals in Latin America. It was hosted by Cinemex, one of the two dominant movie theater chains in Mexico. It lasted two weeks and programmed sections on documentary features, fiction, worldwide premieres, retrospectives, and global tendencies in cinema. The jury was composed of important figures of the film industry worldwide.
In 2007 it programmed documentary retrospectives on Peter Watkins and Peter Whitehead, and a retrospective on Robert Bresson and Pedro Costa.[1]
Awards
editFICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Narrative Film
edit- 2004 - The Return - Andrey Zvyagintsev
- 2005 - Turtles Can Fly - Bahman Ghobadi
- 2006 - The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - Cristi Puiu
- 2007 - 12:08 East of Bucharest - Corneliu Porumboiu
- 2008 - El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia - José Luis Torres Leiva
- 2009 - Ballast - Lance Hammer and Los paranoicos - Gabriel Medina
- 2014 - Kung Fury - David Sandberg
- 2015 - Me and My Moulton - Torill Kove
- 2016 - Seline - Prince Luciano Francesco Silighini Garagnani Lambertini di Poggio Renatico
FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Documentary Film
edit- 2005 - Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Wang Bing
- 2006 - Workingman's Death - Michael Glawogger
- 2007 - Nacido sin / Born Without - Eva Norvind
- 2008 - Hunters Since the Beginning of Time - Carlos Casas
- 2009 - Tie: Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman and Puisque nous sommes nés - Jean-Pierre Duret and Andrea Santana
Best Latin American Film
edit- 2006 - Paraguayan Hammock - Paz Encina[2]
FICCO-Movie City Award for Best Debut Film
edit- 2009 - Cómo estar muerto/Como estar muerto - Manuel Ferrari and The Pleasure of Being Robbed - Joshua Safdie
Pfizer Human Rights Award
edit- 2009 -Access Road - Nathalie Mansoux
Exxonmobil Award for Best Female Director
edit- 2009 - $9.99 - Tatia Rosenthal
Best Mexican Digital Film
edit- 2009 - Calentamiento local - Fernando Frías
Fipresci Award for Best Mexican Documentary Film
edit- 2006 - Copacabana - Martín Rejtman
- 2009 - Nuestra lucha - Jaime Rogel