International Mexican cinema during December at Metro Zapata

AIDA RAMÍREZ

Photo: STC Metro

The Metro, as it has for more than 30 yearscontinues to be a space for culture, and in that sense, invites you to the free screenings that will take place from December 5 to 19 in the movie theater at the Zapata station, on Line 12.

In this way, to close 2023, PROCINE of Mexico City in collaboration with Cultura Metro present this holiday season, a cinematographic sample of Mexican productions and co-productions participating in international festivals.

Users and the general public will be able to enjoy for free a cultural billboard of short and feature films from Mexico, France and Switzerland, which have participated in international exhibitions with a gender focus. environmentalist, pro-animal and alternative.

The programming includes seven films for children, adolescents and audiences over 18 years of age according to the classification, which are screened on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the 4:00 p.m. screening, where interested parties have 35 seats available.

Among the works, “The Time of the Ant” by Stephanie Brewstera film that participated in the International Women in Film and TV Show, which addresses the days of work of young Mexican women where their testimonies lead to reflection on the inequality between men and women with the respective consequences on their personal and professionals.

From the International Film Festival with Alternative Media (FICMA), “Storge” is presented, which narrates a journey of memories and self-exploration of the protagonist, regarding her addictive relationship with pain, love and drugs until her recovery; “Memory leaked through a crack,” a film-essay on the 2017 earthquake that critically takes us to the landscapes of Xochimilco as one of the few vestiges of what was the Anáhuac lake basin. Both films by director Anette Diep Rodríguez.

Thematic diversity in cinematography takes us to the 4th. Edition of the International Animal and Environmental Film Festival, where the children’s audience of Cine Zapata can see two participating works: “Life on the wing” by Dafne Munguía, and “What is united remains” by Juan Manuel Morales; films that tell us the story of adopted dogs, the first of them, who after a fire at his family’s workplace allows him to expose the value of animal life, while the second, fights against paranormal forces to try save the memories of his little owner’s grandfather.

The documentary is also present with “A pack called Ernesto” by Everardo Gonzaleza Mexico-France-Switzerland co-production by Artegios, where the viewer becomes a witness to a parallel universe within the machinery of organized crime.

For those who like comedy, you can laugh with “Pastorella” by director Emilio Portes, under the production of Videocine, where the Christmas holidays give rise to the story, a comic struggle between good and evil that the protagonist faces in his desire to recover the main role that was traditionally his in the staging of the pastorela