19.03.2021
17:00 – 18:30
Seit 2013 zeigen die Schweizer Jugendfilmtage im Fokusprogram das Schaffen von jungen Filmschaffenden aus aller Welt. Für dieses kuratierte Programm arbeiten die Schweizer Jugendfilmtage mit international renommierten Filmfestivals zusammen. Dieses Jahr freuen wir uns, das junge Filmschaffen Mexikos dem Schweizer Publikum näher zu bringen.
Der junge mexikanische Film bietet ein breites Spektrum an überraschenden Geschichten, farbigen Bouquets und kultureller Vielfalt. Das vorherrschende Bild in den globalen Medien über das mexikanische Leben wird gebrochen und diverser. Talentierte mexikanische Filmschaffende haben erst seit Kurzem eine grössere Auswahl an Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten im Filmbereich.
Diese werden nun vollends ausgekostet. Während Themen wie das organisierte Verbrechen ein wiederkehrendes Thema bei Filmstudierenden darstellen, wird auch eine stärkere Präsenz von jungen Frauen* bemerkbar. Siebzig Jahre nichtmilitärische Diktatur grenzten systematisch kreative Ausdrucksformen ein und führten zu einer Verzögerung im Dokumentarfilmschaffen. Neue Talente sprengen nun die alten Erzählformen und widmen sich neuen, globaleren Themen.
Die beiden Fokusprogramme – «Identities» und «New Mexican storytelling» – zeigen Filme von jungen mexikanischen Filmstudent*innen oder aufstrebenden Jungtalenten.
Für die Realisierung des diesjährigen Fokus danken wir insbesondere Nina Rodriguez, Head of Program des Guanajuato International Film Festival und Pau Montagud, Artistic Director des DOCS[MX] für die kuratorische Arbeit.
Depuis 2013, le programme Focus du Festival Ciné Jeunesse Suisse présente l’activité artistique de jeunes cinéastes du monde entier. À l’occasion de ce programme spécial, le Festival Ciné Jeunesse Suisse collabore avec des festivals de film internationaux renommés. Cette année, nous nous réjouissons de présenter la relève du cinéma mexicain au public suisse.
Le jeune cinéma mexicain recèle un large éventail d’histoire surprenantes, de bouquets bigarrés et de diversité culturelle. L’image prédominante de la vie mexicaine dans les médias mondiaux est brisée et diversifiée. Depuis peu, les taleutueux*euses jeunes cinéastes mexicain*es bénéficient de meilleures possibilités de formation dans le domaine du cinéma. L’heure est désormais venue de les savourer leurs œuvres à plein yeux! Si les thèmes tels que le crime organisé constituent un fréquent leitmotiv chez les étudiant*es en cinéma, il convient de saluer la présence grandissante de jeunes femmes*.
Septante ans de dictature non-militaire exclurent systématiquement toute forme d’expression créative et entravèrent considérablement le développement du film documentaire. Désormais, de nouveaux talents viennent bouleverser les formes narratives traditionnelles en se consacrant à des thèmes nouveaux de portée mondiale.
Les deux programmes Focus – «Identities» et «New Mexican storytelling» – présentent des films de jeunes étudiant*es en cinéma ou de talents prometteurs.
Pour la réalisation de la présente édition du programme Focus, nous adressons un tout grand merci à Nina Rodriguez, Head of Program du Guanajuato International Film Festival, et Pau Montagud, Artistic Director du DOCS[MX] pour le travail de curateur*trice.
Fokus I: Identities
Over the past two decades, the Guanajuato International Film Festival GIFF has established itself as one of the most important platforms for young filmmakers in Latin America, each summer offering an extensive selection of screenings, workshops, conferences, and concerts, all free of charge to audiences in the UNESCO world heritage sites of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato. Acting as a platform for launching film careers, GIFF prides itself on educating, supporting, celebrating, awarding, and promoting the next generation of filmmakers and uniting emerging talents with world-renowned experts on the moving image in an atmosphere full of camaraderie and respect.
Having started out as a short film festival with the main goal of inclusivity, we are particularly excited to be able to present a selection, from recent editions of GIFF, of the best Mexican student productions, which have always remained at the heart of our programming.
The films in this program were chosen to reflect a variety of aspects and feature some of the most urgent concerns that the current generation of young people in Mexico is experiencing. While organized crime is a recurrent topic among student productions, we can also distinguish a remarkable presence of strong female voices and a questioning of class and gender norms.
The mixture of styles and genres in this selection, reaching from animated documentary to dramatic musical, bears witness to the abundant creativity among the up and coming generation of Mexican talent and the diversity of formal and visual approaches they employ.
Film education in Mexico has diversified over the past years, nurturing the wealth of storytellers the country has long been known for.
Bastardos desterrados was produced as part of GIFF‘s own educational project «Identity and Belonging» in which regional students receive workshops and mentorship over the course of six months to produce their short documentaries.
Bastardos Desterrados
Director: Mario González Jiménez Documentary
2018 / OV,e / 10‘ / Mexico
Three urban artists have found in rap a refuge from adversity and in their music a way to make themselves heard, repre- senting the voice of their communities through their lyrics.
La chica de dos cabezas / The girl with two heads
Director: Betzabé García Fiction
2018 / E / 13‘ / Mexico, England
18 year-old Anne explores issues of body-image in two highly contrasting worlds: that of her traditionally «femi- nine» mother at home, and the world of the gym where she trains amongst like-minded people.
Nopaltepec
Director: Hiram Islas
Fiction / 2018 / OV,e / 8‘ / Mexico
In Nopaltepec, a very small town in Mexico, a local public transport driver, a young man and a new passenger, come into conflict when the decisions of one of them involve the rest, each having to take a stand.
En Color / In Colour
Director: James Lucas
Fiction / 2019 / OV,e / 15‘ / Mexico
Ulises feels he cannot tell anyone that he is in love with his best friend. His only escape is the music in his mind, creating a musical drama about love and accep- tance in a rapidly changing society.
Dejarse crecer el cuerpo / To Let the Body Grow
Director: Andrea Gudiño
Animation, Documentary / 2018 / OV,e / 5‘ / Mexico
Several people with different gender identities relate their life experiences and create one voice from many — all done through voice-over testimonies and exp- erimental animation techniques.
Fokus II: New Mexican storytelling
Mexico is the country of inexhaustible diversity, unsuspected stories, infinite colors, and variety of cultures. It is, in short, a true paradise for a documentary filmmaker, for a storyteller.
The talent of Mexican filmmakers is immense and we are discovering it for just two decades. Seventy consecutive years of a dictatorship (non-military) that systematically silenced this diversity and any form of artistic expression caused Mexican documentary lag.
Ethnographic cinema and anthropological tone were the dominant topics of Mexican documentary cinema until very recently. Very recently too, the issues with which unfortunately the image of our country is exported have taken over, narcoviolence, illegal migration and illegal trafficking of human beings. The covers of the mass media, the programming of film festivals around the world and the acquisition policies of the streaming platforms prove it. That image is totally distorted and does not show our country as it is.
This small sample of Mexican documentary puts us in front of the great talent of the young filmmakers who are, fortunately, expanding the thematic and narrative possibilities, filming outside their country and abandoning the stereotype in which we live to demonstrate, to ourselves and to the world, that Mexico is the country of unbeatable diversity, with all its advantages, and all its disadvantages. Welcome to the new Mexican storytelling.
Pau Montagud, Artistic Director DOCS[MX]
Por supuesto que tenemos papeles (pero no el que necesitamos) / Of course we have papers (but not the ones we need)
Director: Luis Fernando Zubieta
Documentary / 2018 / OV,e / 22‘ / Mexico, Belgium
A group of undocumented immigrants explore strategies for their regularization through a theatre workshop.
Zafra
Director: Martín Morales
Documentary / 2019 / Ov,e / 10‘ / Mexico
The sugar manufacturer focuses on bur- ning and cutting sugar cane. Fire is a fund- amental role in the process as it connects agriculture with the Catholic tradition of purgatory, where flames are the protago- nists, and it shows that these two acti- vities are more connected than we think.
Así en la tierra / So on Earth
Director: Omar Rivero
Documentary / 2018 / Ov,e / 21‘ / Mexico
Joaquín is a 53-year-old ex-convict
who was sentenced for the third time. Through memory and daily recap of the three different prisons, he expresses his conception of good and evil; in spite of everything, he looks forward to reuniting with family.
La abuela del año / Granny of the Year
Director: Olivia Luengas
Documentary / 2019 / Ov,e / 15‘ / Mexico
For Maria, being a beauty queen was one of her greatest dreams and once she had the opportunity things did not go as exp- ected. At 78, she won «The Grandmother of the Year» contest. After almost a year of being the towns ambassador she must prepare her farewell address and return the crown.
Susurros del lago / Whispers of the Lake
Director: Adán Ruiz
Documentary / 2019 / without dialogue / 12‘ / Mexico
A Purepecha fisherman meditates over his last days. In the lake that surrounds his home where times coexist, the moon rises with the tide and the light reveals secrets that are not visible during the day. The fisherman is trapped in the mystical waters where all the voices become whispers.
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