Celebrating the diverse narratives of the LGBTQ+ community within the global film industry, the 13th edition of the Maguey Award held within the 39th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) will put 16 feature films from around the world in competition to vindicate the realities of different collectives.
The films are “Amantes Astronautas”, “Avenida Beira-Mar”, “La Arriera”, “Crossing”, “Desire Lijes”, “Los demonios del amanecer”, “despues”, “Kobieta Z”, “Pedágio”, “Sebastian”, “El Segundo Premio”, “El Silencio de mis manos”, “Teaches of Peaches”, “Tu me abrazas”, “Valoa, valoa, Valao” and “The Visitor”, productions and co-productions from countries such as Argentina-Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany and Mexico, becoming one of the most extensive competitions of the Award in its history. With special screenings of short films made in Jalisco.
Of these 16 titles, the Maguey Award for the best film, the jury award and the Award for the Best Performance without Specific Gender will be offered.
“I believe that pointing out and pointing out important things is our job as humans. Defending the most vulnerable should be our only mission in life. It is for everyone and the Maguey Award is that, it makes people somehow empower themselves and redeem themselves in a society that is terribly atrocious and violent, of course we will protect it and we will never stop defending it, as far as our bodies allow us” stressed Estrella Araiza, General President of the Guadalajara International Film Festival.
Pavel Cortés, Content Director of the Maguey Prize, explained the criteria and values with which the feature films entered the selection, adding that they sought
“At the beginning, Queer cinematography was very marked by a discourse focused mainly on male homosexuality from a tragic vision that condemned these characters to non-realization and no possibility of consolidating themselves as a person and what we have seen in these thirteen years is an evolution of wonderful discourses where one of the selection criteria has been to leave aside films that condemn marginality and non-realization and on the other hand invite new representations that provide absolute realization regardless of the sexuality of each one of us.”
The Selection Award is named “M” for Madrid, which reflects the multifaceted and dynamic cultural relations in both cities. It was made of brass and formed in two parts that complement each other, both polished and shiny, but only one of them has a coating that keeps it dazzling, the other shows a material that changes over time, losing its shine with resilient evasions, as described by the artist from Guadalajara, Raúl Rebolledo, designer of the award.
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