Opening film | Asteroid City |
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Location | Guadalajara, Mexico |
Awards | Mezcal Award: Heroic Ibero-American Film: I Have Electric Dreams |
Festival date | June 3–9, 2023 |
The 38th Guadalajara International Film Festival took place from June 3 to 9, 2023, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Heroic received the Mezcal Award while Costa Rican film I Have Electric Dreams won the Best Ibero-American Film award. [2]
The festival opening ceremony took place at Telmex Auditorium and was hosted by Andrés Zuno. At the ceremony, Raúl Padilla López was honored for his work in the festival. Padilla López served as president for the festival until his death in April 2023. Mexican actress Arcelia Ramírez and Italian film editor Roberto Perpignani received special achievement awards. [3] American film Asteroid City , directed by Wes Anderson, was the festival's opening film. [4]
The following films were selected for the official competitions: [5] [6] [7] [8]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Adolfo | Sofía Auza | Mexico, United States | |
Love & Mathematics | Amor y matemáticas | Claudia Sainte-Luce | Mexico |
Heroic | Heroico | David Zonana | Mexico, Sweden |
Martinez | Martínez | Lorena Padilla | Mexico |
Women of the Dawn | Mujeres del alba | Jimena Montemayor Loyo | Mexico |
Rage | Rabia | Jorge Michel Grau | Mexico |
Ch'ul be, Sacred Path | Ch'ul be, senda sagrada | Humberto Gómez Pérez | Mexico |
The Invisible Frontier | La frontera invisible | Mariana Flores Villalba | Mexico |
Kenya | Gisela Delgadillo | Mexico | |
Tushkua | Ludovic Bonleux | Mexico | |
A Wolfpack Called Ernesto | Una jauría llamada Ernesto | Everardo González | Mexico |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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20,000 Species of Bees (MG) | 20.000 especies de abejas | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain |
Almamula (MG) | Juan Sebastián Torales | Argentina, France, Italia | |
In the Company of Women (MG) | Las buenas compañías | Silvia Munt | Spain |
Diógenes | Leonardo Barbuy La Torre | Peru, France, Colombia | |
Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures | Marco Martins | Portugal, United Kingdom, France | |
Sister & Sister | Las hijas | Kattia G. Zúñiga | Panama, Chile |
The Fishbowl (SE) | La pecera | Glorimar Marrero-Sánchez | United States, Spain, Puerto Rico |
Octopus Skin | La piel pulpo | Ana Cristina Barragán | Ecuador, Mexico, Greece, Germany, France, Italy |
I Have Electric Dreams | Tengo sueños eléctricos | Valentina Maurel | Costa Rica, France, Belgium |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Light Falls Vertical | Ara La Llum Cau Vertical | Efthymia Zymvragaki | Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands |
The Bilbaos | Los Bilbao | Pedro Speroni | Argentina |
The Castle (MG) | El castillo | Martin Benchimol | Argentina, France |
Fauna | Pau Faus | Spain | |
Alien Island | Isla Alien | Cristóbal Valenzuela Berrios | Chile, Italy |
Calls from Moscow (MG) | Llamadas desde Moscú | Luis Alejandro Yero | Cuba, Germany, Norway |
The Eternal Memory | La memoria infinita | Maite Alberdi | Chile |
Notes For a Film | Notas para una película | Ignacio Agüero | Chile, Francia |
A House for Wandering Souls | O Auto das Ánimas | Pablo Lago Dantas | Brazil, Spain |
Samuel and the Light | Samuel e a Luz | Vinícius Girnys | Brazil, France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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The Things to Come | L'avenir | Santiago Ráfales | Spain |
Dust Trails | Caminos de tierra | Miranda Pérez Ledesma | Mexico |
The House of Sand | La casa de arena | Luis Vicente Fresno | Chile |
Ashen | Cenizo | Gustavo Hernández de Anda | Mexico |
Exceptional Tales from a Young Female Team: Reds | Cuentos excepcionales de un equipo juvenil femeino: Las Rojas | Tom Espinoza | Argentina, Venezuela |
The Cage | La jaula | Cesar Saldivar | Mexico |
Lava | Carmen Jiménez | Spain | |
Look, Kid | Mira, niño | Sergio Avellaneda Belmonte | Spain |
Human Nature | Naturaleza humana | Mónica Lima | Portugal, Germany |
Saturn | Saturno | André Guiomar, Luís Costa | Portugal |
The Treasure | El tesoro | David Rodríguez Estrada | Mexico, United States |
An Avocador Pit | Um Caroço de Abacate | Ary Zara | Portugal |
Ice Love | Amor ice | Katy Araiza | Mexico |
Aqueronte | Manuel Muñoz Rivas | Spain | |
Does a Snail Dream of Home? | ¿El caracol sueña en casa? | Luis Armando Sosa Gil | Mexico, Portugal, Hungary, Belgium |
In My Skin | En mi piel | Sándor M. Salas | Spain |
Lucas | Jessica Quiroz | Mexico | |
Madre nuestra | David Paredes | Colombia, Cuba | |
The Sea is Also Yours | O Mar Também é Seu | Michelle Coelho | Brazil, Cuba |
Your Voice is Within | Su voz está dentro | Mariana Flores Villalba | Mexico |
A Robust Heart | Un corazón más contundente | Argentina, United States, United Kingdom | |
The View from Up Above | La vista desde arriba | Rafael Martínez Sánchez | Mexico |
The following list consists of the films eligible for the Maguey Award that are not listed in the previous competition tables. The films in contention for both the Maguey Award and other competition section appear with the symbol (MG) next to it.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Cross Dreamers | Soledad Velasco | Argentina | |
I Woke Up with a Dream | Desperté con un sueño | Pablo Solarz | Argentina, Uruguay |
In Bed | Ke’elu En Machar | Nitzan Gilady | Israel |
Kokomo City | D. Smith | United States | |
Little Richard: I Am Everything | Lisa Cortés | United States | |
Liuben | Venci D. Kostov | Spain, Bulgaria | |
Medusa Deluxe | Thomas Hardiman | United Kingdom | |
Mutt | Vuk Lungulov-Klotz | United States | |
Passages | Ira Sachs | France | |
Till the End of the Night | Bis ans Ende der Nacht | Christoph Hochhäusler | Germany |
The following list consists of the films eligible for the Hecho en Jalisco that are not listed in the previous competition tables. The films in contention for both the Made in Jalisco and other competition section appear with the symbol (HJ) next to it.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Over There... | Allá, cartas al corazón | Montserrat Larqué | Mexico |
Net: Games of Life | Redes: Juegos de la vida | César Aréchiga | Mexico |
Telephone | Teléfono | Jerzain Ortega | Mexico |
A Territory Without Us | Un territorio sin nosotrxs | Pablo Márquez Cervantes | Mexico |
He, Behind the Gun | Él, detrás del arma | Gabriel Esdras | Mexico |
The Legacy of Fire | El legado del fuego | Eliseo Chirino Sandoval | Mexico |
The Old Had and the Crow | La vieja y el cuervo | María Lucía Bayardo Dodge | Mexico |
The following list consists of the films eligible for the Socio-Environmental Cinema Award that are not listed in the previous competition tables. The films in contention for both the Socio-Environmental Cinema Award and other competition section appear with the symbol (SE) next to it.
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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City on the Back | Ciudad a la espalda | Paola Rodas Ziadé | Ecuador |
Deep Rising | Matthieu Rytz | United States | |
We Are Guardians | Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman, Edivan Guajajara | Brazil, United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Art College 1994 | Liu Jian | China | |
Black Is Beltza II: Ainhoa | Fermin Muguruza | Spain, Argentina | |
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Saules aveugles, femme endormie | Pierre Földes | France, Canada, Netherlands, Luxembourg |
Chicken for Linda! | Linda veut du poulet! | Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach | France, Italy |
Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be | Le Petit Nicolas: Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux? | Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre | France, Luxembourg |
No Dogs or Italians Allowed | Interdit aux chiens et aux italiens | Alain Ughetto | France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal |
A Kingdom for Us All | Un reino para todos nosotros | Miguel Angel Uriegas | Mexico, Colombia |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Aaaah! | Osman Cerfon | France | |
Canary | Pierre-Hughes Dallaire, Benoit Therriault | Canada | |
Flesh of God | Carne de Dios | Patricio Plaza | Argentina, Mexico |
Christopher at Sea | Tom CJ Brown | France, United Kingdom, United States | |
Compound Eyes of Tropical | Ojos compuestos de tropical | Zhang Xu Zhan | Taiwan |
Eeva | Lucija Mrzljak, Morten Tšinakov | Estonia, Croatia | |
Humo | Fumme | Rita Basulto | Mexico |
It's Nice in Here | Robert-Jonathan Koeyers | Netherlands | |
Money and Happiness | Nikola Majdak, Ana Nedeljković | Serbia, Eslovakia, Eslovenia | |
The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World | Die allerlangweiligste Oma auf der ganzen Welt | Damaris Zielke | Germany |
Ninety-Five Senses | Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess | United States | |
O Cosaco Rosa | La Veste Rose | Mónica Santos | Portugal, France |
Pachyderme | Stéphanie Clément | France | |
Teacups | Alec Green, Finbar Watson | Australia, Ireland | |
The Temple | Le Temple | Alain Fournier | Canada |
The following awards were presented: [2] [9] [10]
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