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. The festival ran for seven years, ending in 2010 and reopened in 2014 for Narrative only Film.
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.
Awards
FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Narrative Film 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 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 2006 - Paraguayan Hammock - Paz Encina
FICCO-Movie City Award for Best Debut Film 2009 - Cómo estar muerto/Como estar muerto - Manuel Ferrari and The Pleasure of Being Robbed - Joshua Safdie
Pfizer Human Rights Award 2009 -Access Road - Nathalie Mansoux
Exxonmobil Award for Best Female Director 2009 - $9.99 - Tatia Rosenthal
Best Mexican Digital Film 2009 - Calentamiento local - Fernando Frías
Fipresci Award for Best Mexican Documentary Film 2006 - Copacabana - Martín Rejtman 2009 - Nuestra lucha - Jaime Rogel
See also Film festivals in North and Central America
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