Overview

• The 23rd Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia will run in person in Morelia and online via nuestrocine.mx, with pre-inaugural programming on Oct. 9.
• The competition comprises Sección Michoacana, Cortometraje Mexicano, Documental Mexicano and Largometraje Mexicano, totaling 101 Mexican films.
• Reports differ on the Sección Michoacana count, listing either 15 works (13 shorts and 2 features) or 16 (14 shorts and 2 features).
• The Michoacán section’s feature selections are Apenas primavera by Rafael Martínez-García and Entre sones, abajeños y oberturas by Ingrid Franco.
• Selected films vie for El Ojo, the festival’s top prize by artist Javier Marín, with winning shorts gaining Oscar eligibility and some shorts potentially invited to Cannes’ Critics’ Week special screening.