image: The Desert Within
Once upon a time Mexican cinema barely registered on the world’s radar even in the 1950s when the country was making around 150 features each year. Spanish exile Luis Buñuel made waves with his Mexican work, especially Los Olvidados (The Young And The Damned) (1950). Down the years, occasional films did break out and gain attention like Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s gay charmer Dona Herlinda y su Hijo (Dona Herlinda and Her Son) (1986). Then in 2000 along came Amores Perros (Love’s A Bitch) and Mexican cinema became impossible to ignore.
This year the Glasgow Film Festival will focus on the brightest and the best of the Mexican filmmakers set to follow in the footsteps of Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro. Supported by the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia/Mexican Film Institute (a big thanks to Pablo Briseno Galvan and Alejandro Diaz San Vicente) we will screen a range of features and documentaries that reveal a wealth of talent, ambition and names to mark for the future.
Check here for listings after the programme launch on 21 January 09.
GFT Saturday 14 February (18.15)
GFT Friday 13 February(20.30)
GFT Sunday 15 February (20.30)
GFT Monday 16 February (13.30)
GFT Monday 16 February (18.15)
GFT Tuesday 17 February (18.15)
CCA Wednesday 18 February (20.30)
Cineworld Renfrew St Saturday 21 February (20.45)
CCA Thursday 19 February (18.30)
CCA Friday 20 February (20.45)
GFT Wednesday 18 February (18.15)
