This weekend, the “Marco Lugo” Cinema at the Municipal Arts Center will witness intense activity. This Friday, May 16th and Saturday, May 17th, at 6:00 p.m., the celebration of major productions by Mexican-born directors will begin.
This Friday, Lxs Abandonxs will be screened, along with the Animated Short Films selection, featuring 12 short films competing in the 22nd Morelia International Film Festival.
The thrilling moments will begin with “Adarmia: The Language of Other Eyes,” by Mexican author Ruy Osbahal Mascarúa López; followed by “Anima Natura,” by Andrea Gudiño; followed by “The Collector,” by Alex Pelayo; and “Blue Chronicles,” by Miguel Anaya Borja.
The program is rounded out with “Dolores,” by Cecilia Andalón Delgadillo; “Fulgores,” by Andrés Palma; “Memory of a Displaced Body,” by Mariana Mendívil; “Fear,” by Ángel Iván González; “Nothing Always,” by Gabriela López Ruiz; “The Hidden,” by Monserrat Soldu; “Cen’s Piñata,” by Víctor Cervantes Guzmán; and “Being a Seed,” by Julisa Granillo.
Saturday, May 17th
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo” will be screened at 6:00 PM. This work marks his return to Mexican cinema with a monumental work, a highly personal fresco that transits between memory, fantasy, and social critique.
Premiered in the Official Competition of the 2022 Venice Film Festival, it received the Best Cinematography Award at the 2023 Ariel Awards and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Cinematography in 2023.
The story follows Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who, after decades of living in Los Angeles, returns to his country to receive a prestigious award. However, the journey becomes a hallucinatory immersion through his fears, guilt, and nostalgia, as he grapples with feelings of displacement and the contradictions of his identity.
Bardo is not a linear narrative; It is a mosaic of dreamlike images, where the intimate and the historical intertwine in scenes of overwhelming beauty. In times where everything seems to demand immediacy and clarity, Bardo is an act of faith in the power of ambiguity, an incomplete map that each viewer must complete with their own ghosts. Admission is free, with limited capacity.
