''Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival'', or ''FICCO'' (''Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo'') for its initials in
Spanish
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was an annual
film festival
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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
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. It was hosted by
Cinemex
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, one of the two dominant movie theater chains in
Mexico
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. 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
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and
Peter Whitehead, and a retrospective on
Robert Bresson
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and
Pedro Costa
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Awards
FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Narrative Film
*2004 - '' The Return'' - Andrey Zvyagintsev
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*2005 - ''Turtles Can Fly
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'' - Bahman Ghobadi
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*2006 - '' The Death of Mr. Lazarescu'' - Cristi Puiu
*2007 - '' 12:08 East of Bucharest'' - Corneliu Porumboiu
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*2008 - '' El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia'' - José Luis Torres Leiva
*2009 - ''Ballast
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'' - Lance Hammer
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His first film, ''Ballast'', premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where he won the US Dramatic Directing Award. Ballast was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards and f ...
and '' Los paranoicos'' - Gabriel Medina
*2014 - ''Kung Fury
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'' - David Sandberg
*2015 - '' Me and My Moulton'' - Torill Kove
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*2016 - '' Seline'' - Luciano Francesco Silighini Garagnani Lambertini
FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Documentary Film
*2005 - '' Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks'' - Wang Bing
*2006 - ''Workingman's Death
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'' - Michael Glawogger
*2007 - '' Nacido sin / Born Without'' - Eva Norvind
*2008 - '' Hunters Since the Beginning of Time'' - Carlos Casas
*2009 - Tie: ''Waltz with Bashir
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'' - Ari Folman
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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
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'' - Tatia Rosenthal
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She served two years in the Israeli Defense Force, tried her hand at medical school and studied photography in Paris, before moving to New York City ...
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
This is a list of film festivals that take place (or took place) in North America (Canada, United States and Mexico).
Canada
* List of film festivals in Canada
Caribbean
Central America
Mexico
United States
* List of film festivals in the ...
References
{{Members of the European Festival Association
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Defunct film festivals