''Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival'', or ''FICCO'' (''Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo'') for its initials in

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was an annual

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founded by film producers Michel Lipkes and Paula Astorga in February 2004. The festival ran for seven years, ending in 2010 and reopened in 2014 for Narrative only Film. It quickly become one of the most important film festivals in

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. It was hosted by Cinemex, one of the two dominant movie theater chains in

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. It lasted two weeks and programmed sections on documentary features, fiction, worldwide premieres,

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s, and global tendencies in cinema. The jury was composed of important figures of the film industry worldwide. In 2007 it programmed documentary retrospectives on

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and Peter Whitehead, and a retrospective on

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and Pedro Costa.

Awards

FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Narrative Film

*2004 - '' The Return'' - Andrey Zvyagintsev *2005 - '' Turtles Can Fly'' - Bahman Ghobadi *2006 - '' The Death of Mr. Lazarescu'' - Cristi Puiu *2007 - '' 12:08 East of Bucharest'' - Corneliu Porumboiu *2008 - '' El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia'' - José Luis Torres Leiva *2009 - ''

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'' - Lance Hammer and '' Los paranoicos'' - Gabriel Medina *2014 - '' Kung Fury'' - David Sandberg *2015 - '' Me and My Moulton'' - Torill Kove *2016 - '' Seline'' - Prince Luciano Francesco Silighini Garagnani Lambertini di Poggio Renatico

FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Documentary Film

*2005 - '' Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks'' - Wang Bing *2006 - '' Workingman's Death'' -

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*2007 - '' Nacido sin / Born Without'' -

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*2008 - '' Hunters Since the Beginning of Time'' -

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*2009 - Tie: ''

Waltz with Bashir ''Waltz with Bashir'' (, translit. ''Vals Im Bashir'') is a 2008 adult animated war documentary film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman's search for lost memories of his experience as a soldier during the 19 ...

'' -

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and '' Puisque nous sommes nés'' -

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and Andrea Santana

Best Latin American Film

*2006 - ''

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'' - Paz Encina

FICCO-Movie City Award for Best Debut Film

*2009 - ''Cómo estar muerto/Como estar muerto'' - Manuel Ferrari and ''The Pleasure of Being Robbed'' - Joshua Safdie

Pfizer Human Rights Award

*2009 -''Access Road'' - Nathalie Mansoux

Exxonmobil Award for Best Female Director

*2009 - '' $9.99'' - Tatia Rosenthal

Best Mexican Digital Film

*2009 - ''Calentamiento local'' - Fernando Frías

Fipresci Award for Best Mexican Documentary Film

*2006 - ''Copacabana'' -

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*2009 - ''Nuestra lucha'' - Jaime Rogel

References

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