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"They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out of Bismarck,and Hitler is going to end up as a piece of cheese."

 

 

GUADALAJARA @BABYLON

30.01. - 08.02.

We are very HAPPY to host the Guadalajara International Film Festival @BABYLON

30.01. -08.02. The International Film Festival in Guadalajara presents 'FICG comes to Berlin', its first international screening, with a selection of outstanding titles from its recent editions. BABYLON will host this showcase that invites the public to discover new voices and looks of current Mexican cinema.

GRAND OPENING was JAN Fr 30th:

19:30 FILM: Corina + Q&A (Fr, 30.01. 19:30) Special Guests: Director Urzula Barba Hopfner! + Mariachi Band

Founded in 1986, the Guadalajara International Film Festival has established itself over 40 years as one of the most important film festivals in Ibero-America.

Renowned for its commitment to Mexican and Latin American cinema, FICG has served as a key platform for exhibition, training, and international projection of both emerging voices and established filmmakers, fostering cultural dialogue through cinema.

The aim of the showcase is to present a selection of films that have been emblematic of FICG in its most recent editions, within the framework of the festival’s 40th anniversary celebrations.

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Babylon presents a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, showcasing the finest works of Mexican, Latin American, and Ibero-American cinema.

The festival was born at one of the most critical moments in the history of Mexican cinema. From the outset, its mission was to nurture and strengthen national filmmaking. Over time, that mission expanded and transformed, turning the festival into a vital epicenter of Latin American cinema and forging a deep, enduring bond with Ibero-American cinematography.

The selection we present is resolutely contemporary, shaped by emerging directors and new voices who offer powerful, diverse, and transgressive works. These films engage directly with the urgencies of our shared human condition, situating local stories within a global imaginary that invites deep identification from the spectator. Across a rich spectrum of narrative forms and cinematic styles, they carry us on a fascinating journey.

The films in this program have already enjoyed a strong international trajectory, earning recognition and awards at major festivals for their courage, talent, and exceptional cinematic execution.

Our opening film, Corina,  is a tender and deeply moving work about a character confronting agoraphobia, offering a profound lesson in love and courage.  Autos, Mota y Rocanrol revisits one of the most joyful and transgressive moments in Mexican cultural history—our own Mexican Woodstock, Avándaro.

No nos moverán (Sa, 31.01. 19:30; So, 01.02 18:00; Do, 05.02 19:30; Sa, 07.02 19:30) returns to the 1968 student movement and its devastating aftermath, seen from the distance of the present.

Vergüenza (So, 01.02. 20:00; Do, 05.02 21:30) confronts one of the most brutal and painful realities of contemporary Mexico.

In complete contrast, Vanilla (So, 01.02. 15:00; Di, 03.02 19:30; Mi, 04.02 20:00, Sa, 07.02 17:30) tells the story of Roberta and her family of women—a luminous, intimate film that leaves us with a renewed sense of hope.

I recently served as a juror at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

For the first time in a long while, I felt I had encountered a cinema that truly felt like home: a cinema with a different rhythm of breath and time, one guided by emotion rather than plot mechanics, and deeply attentive to the lives, dignity, and fragility of the working class.

At its best, Latin American cinema sustains a rare and beautiful balance between the aesthetic and the ethical—between poetic form and social care. It restored to me a sense of authentic cinematic emotion.

At a moment when U.S. violence and intimidation toward Venezuela and Latin America are once again intensifying, and when a new colonial imagination is openly resurfacing, this program also stands as an act of solidarity. But above all, it is an invitation—to joy, to beauty, and to shared emotion.
I hope you will join us.

Curator Udi Aloni

 

Länge: 97 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Vanilla (Vainilla) [OmeU] 2025, Mexico, R: Mayra Hermosillo mit Paloma Petra, Natalia Plascencia, 97 Min

Länge: 108 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Arillo de hombre muerto (Dead Man's Switch) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Alejandro Gerber Bicecci mit Adriana Paz, Noé Hernández, 108 Min

Länge: 100 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: No nos moverán (We Shall Not Be Moved) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Pierre Saint Martin mit Luisa Huertas, Agustina Quinci, José Alberto Patiño, 100 Min

Länge: 104 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Un mundo para mí (Newborn) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Alejandro Zuno mit Mayra Hermosillo, Andrés Delgado, 104 Min 

Länge: 103 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Vergüenza (Shame) [OmeU] 2023, Mexico, R: Miguel Salgado mit Juan Ramón López, Myriam Bravo, 103 Min

Länge: 87 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Yo vi tres luces negras (I Saw Three Black Lights) [OmeU] 2024, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, R: Santiago Lozano Álvarez mit John Alex Castillo, Carol Hurtado, 87 Min

Länge: 80 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Estado de silencio (State of Silence) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Santiago Maza mit María de Jesús Peters, Marcos Vizcarra, Juan de Dios, García Davish, 80 Min

Länge: 80 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Eco de luz (Light Memories) [OmeU] 2024, Ecuador, Germany, R: Misha Vallejo Prut mit Luz Elvira Vallejo Vallejo, Jorge Vinicio Vallejo, 80 Min

Länge: 81 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: El silencio de mis manos (The Silence of My Hands) [OmeU] 2023, Mexico, R: Manuel Acuña Arellano mit Rosa Casillas, Saira Yunuen Medina, 81 Min

Länge: 100 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Después (Después) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Sofía Gómez Córdova mit Ludwika Paleta, Nicolás Haza 100 Min

Länge: 103 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: La Arriera (The Muleteer) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Isabel Fregoso mit Sasha González, Damayanti Quintanar, 103 Min

Länge: 80 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Runa Simi (Runa Simi) [OmeU] 2025, Peru, R: Augusto Zegarra mit Dylan Valencia, Fernando Valencia, 80 Min

Länge: 98 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Doce lunas (Twelve Moons) [OmeU] 2025, Mexico, R: Victoria Franco mit  Ana de la Reguera, Enrique Arreola, 98 Min

Länge: 77 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: La fabulosa máquina de cosechar oro (The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine) [OmeU] 2024, Chile, Netherlands, R: Alfredo Pourailly mit Jorge Gessel Bañados, Jorge "Toto"Gessel Díaz, 77 Min

Länge: 83 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Sobre las olas (Over the Waves) [OmeU] 2025, Mexico, France, Spain, R: Horacio Alcalá mit Ángeles Cruz, Nacho Guerreros, 83 Min

Länge: 77 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Hilando sones (The Weavers´ Songs) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Ismael Vásquez Bernabé mit Lorenzo Núñez Victoria, Zoila Bernabé Merino, 77 Min

Länge: 90 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: El ladrón de perros (The Dog Thief) [OmeU] 2024, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, France, Italy, Mexico, R: Vinko Tomicic mit Alfredo Castro, Teresa Ruiz, 90 min

Länge: 136 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Los demonios del amanecer (Demons at Dawn) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Julián Hernández mit Luis Vegas, Axel Shuarma, Tony Corrales, 136 Min

Länge: 117 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Molusco (Mollusk) [OmeU] 2025, Mexico, R: Mauricio Bidault mit José Ignacio Solórzano, 117 Min

Länge: 85 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Tratado de invisibilidad (The Invisible Contract) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Luciana Kaplan mit Rosalba Martínez, Aurora López Domínguez, 85 Min

Länge: 79 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Concierto para otras manos (Concert For Other Hands) [OmeU] 2024, Mexico, R: Ernesto González Díaz mit David González Ladrón de Guevara, José Luis González Moya, 79 Min

Länge: 94 min.

Corina (OmeU) 2024, MEX, R: Urzula Barba Hopfner mit Naian González Norvind, Cristo Fernández, Ariana Candela, 94 Min

for the OPENING Jan 30th - Special Guests: Director Urzula Barba Hopfner!

Länge: 93 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Autos, mota y rocanrol (Rock, Weed and Wheels) [OmeU] 2025, Mexico, R: José Manuel Cravioto mit Alejandro Speitzer, Emiliano Zurita, 93 Min

Länge: 94 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Jíkuri: Viaje al país de los Tarahumaras (Jíkuri: Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara) [OmeU] 2024, France, Mexico, United States, R: Federico Cecchetti mit Sylvie Testud, Olivier Rabourdin, 94 Min

Länge: 80 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Fenómenos naturales (Natural Phenomena) [OmeU] 2024, Cuba, Argentina, France, R: Marcos Díaz Sosa mit Andrea Doimeadiós, Reinier Díaz, 80 Min

Länge: 110 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Café Chairel (Cafe Chairel) [OmeU] 2025, Mexico, R: Fernando Barreda Luna mit Tessa Ía, Mauricio Isaac, 110 Min

Länge: 103 min.

Guadalajara @BABYLON: Cocodrilos (Crocodiles) [OmeU] 2025, Mexico, United States, R: J. Xavier Velasco mit Hoze Meléndez, Teresita Sánchez, 103 Min

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