London will dedicate a festival of cinema to Mexican movies, which opens today with the movie The Violin, by Francisco Vargas Quevedo. Films such as como Amores Perros, Y tu mamá también y Salón México will be exhibited.

The director of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE), Alfredo Joskowicz, said that “more than a festival, the series is a retrospective with 24 movies that will be projected throughout two months.” According to the director of IMCINE, “the British will be able to see a different universe from that of cowboys and guns”.

With this aim the sample has split into two sections: one dedicated to Mexican contemporary cinema and the other titled “Sons of the Classics”, with movies from
the golden age (decade of the 30’s) and some recent ones thematically related to those.

Also actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna will lead next October 16 a chat about current Mexican cinema.

With the section of contemporary films, they will be able to see films like Amores Perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Y tu mamá también by Alfonso Cuarón, Cronos (Invención de Cronos) by Guillermo del Toro y Japón by Carlos Reygadas, among others. On the other hand, the Classics and related movies, films like Vámonos con Pancho Villa by Fernando de Fuentes, Salón de México by Emilio Fernández y El Vampiro by Fernando Méndez, will be shown at the festival.

Comparing two epochs, the IMCINE director said that “whereas cinema of the golden age was inside the industrial parameters, reinforcing nationalism and the identity of the middle – lower class, the contemporary has lived through a thematic explosion.” The retrospective also will include a sample of short films from the last ten years.

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