Mexican film festival continues over weekend

It’s about as sweet a deal as they come: a free movie in a luxurious setting about people and places we can relate to. What I’m talking about is the Mexican Film Festival, launched last week at the Princess Hotel and continuing this weekend. According to Mexican Ambassador, Arturo Trejo, the images embody the life and times of his countrymen and women, past and present.

Arturo Trejo, Mexican Ambassador to Belize

“The short films are very interesting, because of they are very short and they present very different stories and also techniques. This coming weekend we are presenting for example, Frida, which will be presented on Saturday, it is a long film. It is not the Frida, which was shown some month ago, which was a Hollywood film. Very good of course, but it presents another type of cinema. Mexican cinema is more into the tradition of realism.”

“We are showing a sample of Mexican cinema for the last five years. Most of the films were produced in the year 2000. Mexico is producing around twenty-eight films a year, which is a respectable number. And the now the Mexican state is supporting the film through a sort of contribution, which a visitor to the cinema pays. When he pays his ticket, it is one peso for each time and each visitor to the movies, and that peso goes to the film industry in order to support it.”

The feature film on Mexican painter Frida Khalo starts at eleven a.m. on Saturday. Corazones Rotos or Broken Hearts, the story of several families living in a housing development in Mexico City, will start at eleven on Sunday. All the movies are free.