- The cycle will begin this Saturday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m.
By Angélica Rangel
The Senate of the Republic through the Congress Channel, signed an agreement in collaboration with the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) and the National Cinematheque to incorporate Mexican and international cinema into its programming with a total of 34 films, with the aim of “Guarantee the cultural rights of the entire population and encourage audiences in the country to increasingly access the seventh art through different exhibition windows, such as public television,” reads a statement issued by the Ministry of Culture.
The project was baptized as Cinema on the Congress Channel. A look with social commitment boasts a selection of 21 national productions and 13 foreign productions from countries such as France, Romania, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Australia, China and Guatemala.
“It is an urgent task for Mexican cinema to find its place in the public media, especially contemporary Mexican cinema, because it is a fundamental link to guarantee the right of all Mexican women and men to have access to their own cinema,” he said. the general director of IMCINE, María Novaro, during the signing of the agreement on April 15.
We present some of the national titles that will make up this film series:
- Passion according to Berenice (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1975)
- Cananea (Marcela Fernández Violante, 1976)
- The holy war (Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1977)
- The street of bitterness (Arturo Ripstein, 2015)
- Corn in times of war (Alberto Cortés Calderón, 2015)
- Yoéme Labyrinth (Sergio Pedro Ros, 2018)
- Drawings against bullets (Alicia Calderón Torres, 2019)
“The agreement was signed by the president of the Board of Directors, Senator Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar; the president of the Bicameral Commission of the Congressional Channel, Senator Cruz Pérez Cuellar; the general director of the Congress Channel, Eduardo Fernández Sánchez; the president of the Culture Commission, Senator Susana Harp Iturribarría; Alejandro Pelayo Rangel, general director of the Cineteca Nacional; as well as María Novaro, general director of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography ”.
Movies can be enjoyed through the Signal from the Canal del Congreso (45.1 on open TV) from April 24, every Saturday and Sunday from 7:00 p.m.
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