Everything you need to know about the Guanajuato International Film Festival 2021

Published August 18th, 2021

The twenty-fourth edition of the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF) will be held from September 17 to 26, 2021 in the cities of León, San Miguel de Allende, and Irapuato.

This year the festival is scheduled to return to movie theaters and theaters, always respecting the health protocols dictated by the Ministry of Health and other relevant authorities, but will also maintain the streaming platform and online transmissions.

The 24th edition received a total of 3,274 films from 132 countries, which will make up the Official Selection in the categories of Fiction, Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Virtual Reality, Mexico, and Guanajuato. Likewise, feature films will compete in the categories of International Fiction, Fiction Mexico, International Documentary, and Documentary Mexico. The official #GIFF24 program will be announced at the end of August through www.giff.mx and the media, organizers said in a press release.

Dates and venues

This year, GIFF will present capacity-controlled screenings in emblematic theaters in the host cities (Guanajuato) and Cinemex theaters and online transmissions during the 10 days of the festival.

• From September 18 to 20 in León. Main venue: Forum Cultural Guanajuato, other screening venues: Plaza de Gallos and Cinemex Plaza Mayor.
• September 21 to 23 in San Miguel de Allende. Main venue Jardín Principal, plus screenings at the Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez “El Nigromante”, and Cinemex Plaza Luciérnaga. In addition, the University Rally will be held for the first time, where six teams from different universities in the country will shoot a short film in 48 hours.
• September 24-26 in Irapuato. The main venue will be the Teatro de la Ciudad, along with an open-air Cinema Picnic and screenings at Cinemex Plaza Jacarandas.

Online transmissions from September 17 to 26, through the digital platform www.giff.mx/online, in addition to panels, workshops, and conferences.

Tribute

GIFF will pay a heartfelt tribute to the life and work of Ernesto Herrera, co-founder of the festival and a notable mind in the field of creative industries. The tribute will consist of an exhibition of 40 photographs that reveal Ernesto Herrera’s professional career and the creative boom he achieved with Expresión en Corto, later GIFF.

Who was Ernesto Herrera?

“Ernesto Herrera was born in León, Guanajuato, on December 20, 1964, never to leave this world again. On February 12, 2021, at the age of 56, he was summoned for a new call. Some say it was the virus that took him, others say he will be gone for a while as if convinced that the end is unequivocally proper of what ends”, is mentioned in the information of the portal.