Overview

• The 23rd Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia launched with a red‑carpet gala at Teatro Mariano Matamoros and a simultaneous inaugural screening in Pátzcuaro’s Teatro Emperador Caltzontzin.
• Kleber Mendonça Filho presented El Agente Secreto, a Brazil–France coproduction that won prizes at Cannes and is Brazil’s submission for the international Oscar, and he received the Filmoteca UNAM medal.
• The festival runs October 10–19 with screenings across multiple venues in Morelia and Pátzcuaro, plus free virtual selections on IMCINE’s nuestrocine.mx platform.
• International figures including Ava DuVernay, Pablo Berger, David Linde and Andrea Pallaoro serve on juries, while guests such as Juliette Binoche, Jodie Foster, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlie Kaufman and Lucrecia Martel are scheduled for presentations and talks.
• Access initiatives flank the kickoff, with newly opened 10‑screen Cinelia in Paseo Altozano, Secum’s free Cinema Michoacán Vol. IV cycle at Casa Natal de Morelos, and a Filmoteca UNAM photo exhibition at the Centro Cultural Clavijero; organizers also advise early ticket purchases due to high demand.