MEXtape: Cine de Mexicano [] Compartimento Cinematográfico/Art Theater

Wednesday’s in June
8:30 pm

June 2 – Las Flores de la Noche/The Night flowers

June 9 – de Flavio Florencio/Made in Bangkok

June 16 – Noches de Julio/Nights of July

June 23 – Somos Mari Pepe/We are Mari Pepi de Samuel Kishi

June 30 – Restos de Viento/Wind Traces de Jimena Montemayor

Starting in June, Compartimento Cinematográfico will reserve Wednesday nights for outdoor projections of the best in Contemporary Mexican Cinema. The screenings, which form part of a series labeled MEXtape, will be free of charge for the audience.

Joining the Pride Month celebrations, MEXtape kicks off on Wednesday, June 2nd with a Special Premiere of THE NIGHTFLOWERS, which won the award for Best Mexican Documentary at GIFF, as well as the Audience Award in Morelia and was selected for the most recent editions of international festivals like IDFA.

With great joy and dignity, the film portrays the life of a group of young trans people in Jalisco. A group of queer youth make their home in a small village on the shores of Mexico’s largest lake. Uriel, one of its members, decides to leave behind her female identity after joining a religious group. But their strong friendship has created a sense of belonging that unites them in a special way; together, they celebrate their youth and proclaim their freedom in a kind of living manifesto that flourishes in their sisterhood.

This special screening that opens MEXtape will be attended by the directors of the film, who will be available to chat with the audience afterwards, already a tradition at Compartimento Cinematografico. Facilitating access to Contemporary Mexican Cinema was our main objective when opening an independent theater in San Miguel de Allende. There is a broad range of enthusiastic local audiences and we would like to provide a platform for them to meet with Mexican filmmakers and their stories in order to create dialogues around current topics concerning all of us. The series will continue every Wednesday until the end of the year.

Eight months after its inauguration, Compartimento Cinematográfico will also re-open the doors of its indoor theater to expand its schedule with a diverse program which also includes films for children every week.

Sala de Cine en San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Our new art house theater in San Miguel is now open! We have officially inaugurated Compartimento Cinematográfico which seeks to create a regular home for cinephiles in San Miguel de Allende and to present the most outstanding works of the seventh art on a weekly basis. With the variety of enthusiastic local audiences and the urgency of cinema as a communal cultural experience in mind, the space offers an “arthouse cinema” accessible for all audiences, where they can enjoy curated programming and discover both contemporary Mexican cinema and foreign films that do not reach commercial theaters in the region. Compartimento Cinematográfico will host two screenings daily from Thursday to Sunday. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for the inauguration! We were honoured to welcome two of the actors from our opening film Identifying Features and are incredibly grateful to the Guanajuato Film Commission and the Secretaría de Turismo del Estado for their presence and continued support of independent cultural initiatives.