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Guanajuato International Film Festival has announced the complete lineup for 2022 festival, which takes place in San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato, Mexico) from July 22-31.

Guanajuato International Film Festival or GIFF is an annual international film festival, held since 1998. It is held during the final week of July in San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato City, Mexico. GIFF was formerly known as Expresión en Corto International Film Festival.

Guanajuato International Film Festival is an Academy Award® qualifying festival for the short films categories. Winners of Best Short Animation and Best Short Fiction International will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film categories of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy Rules.

Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022 lineup

A lineup of 165 movies have been selected to go on screen in different program sections of the 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, or 25th GIFF.

International Feature

A lineup of 8 feature movies has been selected to go on screen in the International Feature program section of the 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, or 25th GIFF.

• “Drii Winter” (“A Piece of Sky”) (Switzerland, Germany), Directed by Michael Koch
• “Klondike” (Ukraine, Turkey), Directed by Maryna Er Gorbach
• “Met Mes” (Netherlands), Directed by Sam de Jong
• “Ta farda” (“Until Tomorrow”) (Iran, France), Directed by Ali Asgari
• “Therapy Dogs” (Canada), Directed by Ethan Eng
• “Unicorn Wars” (Spain, France), Directed by Alberto Vázquez
• “Un varón” (Colombia, France), Directed by Fabian Hernández
• “Yamabuki” (Japan, France), Directed by Juichiro Yamasaki

Mexican Feature

A lineup of 10 Mexican feature movies has been selected to go on screen in the Mexican Feature program section of the 25th Guanajuato International Film Festival, or 2022 GIFF.

• “Breaking la vida” (Mexico), Directed by Abraham Escobedo-Salas
• “Donde duermen los pájaros” (Mexico), Directed by Alejandro Alatorre
• “Efímera” (Mexico), Directed by Luis Mariano García
• “El encierro vol. 1” (Mexico, Spain, Argentina), Directed by Santiago Fábregas/ Santiago Maza
• “La Vida es un Carnaval” (Mexico, France), Directed by Fernando Colin Roque
• “Lo que dejamos atrás” (Mexico, United States), Directed by Iliana Sosa
• “No vayas a clase mañana” (Mexico), Directed by Diego Barragan
• “Oliverio y la piscina” (Mexico), Directed by Arcadi Palerm Artis
• “Roza” (Guatemala, Mexico), Directed by Andres Rodriguez
• “Teorema de tiempo” (Mexico), Directed by Andrés Kaiser

International Documentary

A lineup of 18 documentary movies has been selected to go on screen in the International Documentary program section of the 25th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF).

• “Angle Mort” (“Blind Spot”) (Tunisia), Directed by Lotfi Achour
• “Constant” (United Kingdom, Germany, Russia), Directed by Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva
• “Excess Will Save Us” (Sweden), Directed by Morgane Dziurla-Petit
• “Fire of Love” (Canada, United States), Directed by Sara Dosa
• “How to Save a Dead Friend” (Sweden, Norway, France, Germany), Directed by Marusya Syroechkovskaya
• “In Flow of Words” (Netherlands), Directed by Eliane Esther Bots
• “Lo que se hereda” (Dominican Republic, United States), Directed by Victoria Linares Villegas
• “Mija” (United States), Directed by Isabel Castro
• “More Than I Remember” (United States, Chile), Directed by Amy Bench
• “Myanmar Diaries” (Netherlands, Norway, Myanmar), Directed by The Myanmar Film Collective
• “Naked Gardens” (United States, France), Directed by Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas
• “Những đứa trẻ trong sương” (“Children of the Mist”) (Vietnam), Directed by Diem Ha Le
• “Nuisance Bear” (Canada), Directed by Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden
• “Our Ark” (Netherlands, United States, Turkey), Directed by Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton
• “Pink Rider” (Sweden, Colombia), Directed by Daniel Aguirre
• “Primer paquete para Honduras” (Germany), Directed by Jakob Krese
• “Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver” (United States), Directed by Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster
• “What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada del Muerto” (United States), Directed by Hope Tucker

Short Film Fiction

A lineup of 16 short fiction films has been selected to go on screen in the Short Film Fiction program section of the 2022 GIFF, or 25th Guanajuato International Film Festival.

• “A Man Trembles” (Singapore), Directed by Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen
• “Tundra” (Cuba), Directed by José Luis Aparicio
• “Aos Dezasseis” (“At Sixteen”) (Portugal), Directed by Carlos Lobo
• “Cuerdas” (Spain), Directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
• “Datsun” (New Zealand), Directed by Mark Albiston
• “Et tu cherches quoi de beau ici?” (“I Should Feed My Cat”) (Belgium), Directed by Abram Cerda
• “Hai Bian Sheng Qi Yi Zuo Xuan Ya” (“The Water Murmurs”) (China), Directed by Story Chen
• “Hideous” (United Kingdom), Directed by Yann Gonzalez
• “I Remember it Rained” (United States), Directed by Connor Simpson
• “Las visitantes” (Spain, France), Directed by Enrique Buleo
• “Le Feu Au Lac” (“Fire at the Lake”) (France), Directed by Pierre Menahem
• “Louise de 9 à 5” (“Louise From 9 to 5”) (Canada), Directed by Julien G. Marcotte
• “Memoir of a Veering Storm” (Greece), Directed by Sofia Georgovassili
• “Not the 80s” (Germany), Directed by Marleen Valien
• “Shark” (Australia), Directed by Nash Edgerton
• “Warsha” (Lebanon, France), Directed by Dania Bdeir

Short Animation

A lineup of 16 animated short films has been selected to go on screen in the Short Animation program section of the 2022 GIFF, or 25th Guanajuato International Film Festival.

• “Anxious Body” (France), Directed by Yoriko Mizushiri
• “Azaletik Azalera” (“Skin To Skin”) (Spain), Directed by Mel Arranz
• “Crocodile Pond” (China), Directed by Yanrusi Wang
• “Cromosoma X” (Italy), Directed by Lucia Bulgheroni
• “Do Not Feed The Pigeons” (United Kingdom), Directed by Antonin Niclass
• “En lång utdragen olyckshändelse” (“A Long Protracted Scene of An Accident”) (Sweden), Directed by Lisa Rydberg, Lars Henrik Andersson
• “I’m Late” (France, Japan), Directed by Sawako Kabuki
• “Manchmal weiss ich nicht wo die Sonne” (“Sometimes i don’t know where the sun”) (Switzerland), Directed by “Samantha Aquilino
• “Muerte murciélago” (Spain), Directed by Carlos Saiz
• “Scale” (France), Directed by Joseph Pierce
• “Sensory Itch” (Netherlands), Directed by Roel van Beek
• “The Debutante” (United Kingdom), Directed by Elizabeth Hobbs
• “The Limits of Vision” (United States), Directed by Laura Ann Harrison
• “We Are Here” (United States, Mexico), Directed by Doménica Castro, Constanza Castro
• “Yugo” (France, Colombia), Directed by Carlos Gómez Salamanca
• “Layl (Night)” (Germany, Qatar, Palestine, Jordan), Directed by Ahmad Saleh

Short Film Experimental

A lineup of 12 experimental short films has been selected to go on screen in the Short Film Experimental program section of the 25th GIFF, or 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival.

• “Aribada” (Germany), Directed by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar
• “Backflip” (Germany), Directed by NIkita Diakur
• “Future Flowers” (China), Directed by Hao Zhou
• “Jungla X” (United States, Puerto Rico), Directed by Jose Fernando Rodriguez
• “Solidariedade (Solidarity)” (Brazil), Directed by Fernanda Pessoa
• “Staging Death” (Austria), Directed by Jan Soldat
• “The Capacity for Adequate Anger” (Germany), Directed by Vika Kirchenbauer
• “The Spiral” (Argentina), Directed by Maria Silvia Esteve
• “Tierra” (United States), Directed by Fana Adjani
• “Tomorrow Is a Water Palace” (Colombia, Mexico, Belgium, Italy), Directed by Juanita Onzaga
• “Un viento roza tu puerta” (Spain), Directed by Jorge Castrillo, Pablo Paloma
• “Virtual Voice” (Sudan, Qatar), Directed by Suzannah Mirghani

Mexican Short Film

A lineup of 21 Mexican short films has been selected to go on screen in the Mexican Short Film program section of the 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF).

• “1/4 Ante Meridiem” (Mexico), Directed by Alex Noppel
• “Avrocar” (Mexico), Directed by Matthew Sanabria
• “Cola de rata” (Mexico), Directed by José Armando Salomo Rosas
• “Concertina” (Mexico), Directed by Gabriel Gonzalez Acosta
• “Corpúsculo” (Mexico), Directed by Léa Soler
• “De la nada” (Mexico), Directed by Pablo Balderas
• “El año del radio” (Mexico), Directed by Samuel Kishi Leopo
• “Exhumados” (Mexico), Directed by Rodrigo Moreno Esquivel
• “Interior Seis” (Mexico), Directed by Mauricio Sánchez Arias
• “Ir y Volver” (Mexico, Belgium, Hungary), Directed by José Permar
• “La Baláhna” (Mexico), Directed by Xóchitl Enriquez Mendoza
• “Llueve” (Mexico), Directed by Magali Rocha Donnadieu, Carolina Corral Paredes
• “Lux Noctis” (United States), Directed by Damiana Acuña
• “No te agüites” (Mexico, Venezuela), Directed by Juan Vicente Manrique Manrique Gomez
• “Noventa y dos lágrimas” (Mexico), Directed by Fernanda Camacho
• “Para perecer” (Mexico), Directed by Sebastián Grisales
• “Pitbull” (Mexico), Directed by Fabián León López
• “Reykjavík” (Mexico), Directed by Irving Uribe Nares
• “Romper el pacto” (Mexico), Directed by Ianis Guerrero
• “Tickle Where it Hurts” (Mexico), Directed by Esteban A. Catalán
• “Tigre, tigre” (Mexico), Directed by Mauricio Sáenz-Cánovas

Guanajuato Short Film

A lineup of 13 short films from Guanajuato has been selected to go on screen in the Guanajuato Short Film program section of the 25th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF).

• “8.24.Cuarentay3” (Mexico), Directed by Christian Cornejo
• “Carlota” (Mexico), Directed by Malu Solís
• “El grillo” (Mexico), Directed by Carlos Hernandez Vazquez
• “El Nidal” (Mexico), Directed by Ashley Todd Fell, Michael James Wright
• “El último eslabón” (Mexico), Directed by Gerardo Hernández Contreras
• “Hombrecito” (Mexico), Directed by Mario Martínez Chávez
• “Hoya” (Mexico), Directed by Mauricio Aguilar
• “La Cuarta Puerta” (Mexico), Directed by Hugo Magaña
• “La frontera” (Mexico), Directed by Christian Arredondo Narváez
• “La Nevería” (Mexico), Directed by Alejandro Aguilera Pantoja
• “Nights on Fire” (Mexico), Directed by Andre Michel
• “Serranilla” (Mexico), Directed by Nicolás Gutiérrez Wenhammar
• “Valtierra” (Mexico), Directed by Juan Pablo Elorriaga

Virtual Reality

A lineup of 15 Virtual Reality movies has been selected to go on screen in the Virtual Reality program section of the 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, or 25th GIFF.

• “A Passage” (Germany), Directed by Maximilian Villwock
• “Alice in VR Wonderland” (United Kingdom), Directed by Jasmin Vardimon
• “Bâtisseurs de Rêve : le Cénotaphe de Newton” (“Dream Builders: the Cenotaph for
  Newton”) (France), Directed by Arnaud Desjardins
• “Chemoc “La Danza del Chiqüin”” (Mexico), Directed by Eduardo Toledo Tirado
• “Cosmic•Atomic” (United States), Directed by Christopher Boulton
• “Cosmonaute 360 – Mission: RESCUE” (Mexico), Directed by Jesús Pérez Irigoyen
• “Entre Luces y Sombras_Capítulo III” (Colombia), Directed by Nazly López Díaz
• “Genesis” (Germany), Directed by Joerg Courtial
• “Goliath: Playing with Reality” United Kingdom, France), Directed by Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla
• “Hydrocosmos” (Italy), Directed by Milad Tangshir
• “Lavrynthos” (brazil, Peru), Directed by Amir Admoni, Fabito Rychter
• “Montegelato” (Italy), Directed by Davide Rapp
• “Terrestre” (Mexico), Directed by Adrián Regnier Chávez
• “They Dream in My Bones – Insemnopedy II” (France), Directed by Faye Formisano
• “Une colonie ( A Colony)” (Canada), Directed by Jean-Loup Pinard

Kids in Action

A lineup of 12 movies has been selected to go on screen in the Kids in Action program section of the 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, or 25th GIFF.

• “Uma & Haggen” (Mexico), Directed by Benito Fernández
• “El cuervo y el venado” (Mexico), Directed by Mauricio Calderon Rico
• “El Sueño de Quino” (Spain), Directed by Santiago Erlich
• “I’m not afraid!” (Germany), Directed by Marita Mayer
• “Izlet ( A Day Out)” (Croatia), Directed by Ana Horvat
• “Laika & Nemo” (Germany), Directed by Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow
• “Luce et le Rocher” (“Luce and the Rock)” (Belgium), Directed by Britt Raes
• “Mi abuela Matilde” (Mexico), Directed by Miguel Anaya Borja
• “Pisma na kraju sume” (“Letters From the Edge of the Forest”) (Croatia), Directed by Jelena Oroz
• “Spacapufi ( Spuffies)” (Slovenia), Directed by Jaka Ivanc
• “Meal On The Plate” (United States, China), Directed by Chenglin Xie
• “Agua” (Mexico), Directed by Robin Morales

Midnight Madness

A lineup of 9 movies has been selected to go on screen in the Midnight Madness program section of the 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, or 25th GIFF.

• “Babičino seksualno življenje” (“Granny’s Sexual Life”) (Slovenia, France), Directed by Urška Djukić, Émilie Pigeard
• “Die Sicherste Sauna der Welt” (“Sauna Security”) (Germany), Directed by Nils Knoblich
• “Glazing” (United States), dir. Lilli Carré
• “I am that I am” (Colombia, France), Directed by Audrey Mascina
• “La Fée des Roberts” (“The Boob Fairy”) (France), Directed by Léahn Vivier-Chapas
• “Make Her Dance” (Germany), Directed by Carolina Cruz
• “Sauna” (Switzerland), Directed by Anna Lena Spring, Lara Perren
• “Wet” (France), Directed by Marianne Bergeonneau, Lauriane Montpert, Mélina Mandon, Cloé Peyrebrune, Elvira Taussac
• “Zoon” (Germany), Directed by Jonatan Schwenk

Cinema Among the Dead

A lineup of 5 movies has been selected to go on screen in the Cinema Among the Dead program section of the 25th Guanajuato International Film Festival, or 2022 GIFF.

• “Bingo Hell” (United States), Directed by Gigi Saul Guerreros
• “Luzifer” (Austria), Directed by Peter Brunner
• “Santa sangre” (Mexico), Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
• “The Timekeepers of Eternity” (Greece), Directed by Aristotelis Maragkos
• “Hijas de Brujas” (Mexico), Directed by Faride Schroeder

Women in Film

Two movies from Germany and Mexico have been selected to go on screen in the Women in Film program section of the 25th Guanajuato International Film Festival.

• “I got to go to Juchitán” (Germany), Directed by Sonja Aufderklamm
• “La Revuelta” (Mexico), Directed by Lucero González

Special Screening

The Special Screen program section of the 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival features 8 movies from United States, Mexico, Austria, Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and Canada,

• “100 Ways to Cross the Border” (United States, Mexico), Directed by Amber Bay Bemak
• “Gefilte Fish, Directed by Yuliya Lanina” (United States, Austria)
• “Home is Somewhere Else” (Mexico, United States), Directed by Carlos Hagerman, Jorge Villalobos
• “What’s in a Name” (United States, Mexico), Directed by Jon Tracy
• “Pink Moon” (Netherlands, Slovenia), Directed by Floor van der Meulen
• “Schweigend steht der Wald” (Germany), Directed by Saralisa Volm
• “Crimes of the Future” (Canada), Directed by David Cronenberg
• “Lecciones para Canallas” (Mexico), Directed by Gustavo Moheno

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