Opening film

Antígona

Antigone
Pedro González Rubio
Mexico
2018
73'
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Description

At the biggest public university in Latin America, a group of students and their theater professor put on Antigone, a Greek tragedy about the conflict between the rules of power and a young women's will to do the right thing. Life, theater and fiction get woven together over the course of the creative process, in classrooms, in the privacy of their homes, in public spaces and in the city's surreal landscapes.

Awards and festivals

- FICUNAM - International Competition (2018)
- Cinéma Du Réel - International Competition (2018)

Biography of the director

Antigone

Pedro González Rubio
Of Mexican origin, Pedro learned photography in New Delhi at the age of 16. In 2005 he co-directed his first documentary, Toro Negro, which won the Horizontes Award in San Sebastián, the award for best documentary at the Morelia Film Festival and in Havana. In 2009 he made Alamar, garnering over 15 international awards including the Tiger Award from the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Shot in Japan following the 2011 tsunami and produced by the filmmaker Naomi Kawase, Inori won him the Golden Leopard Award in the Emerging Directors section at the Locarno Festival. In 2014 he made the documentary Icaros in Costa Rica, a film that participated in the official selection at the Visions du Réel festival, Switzerland. For his fifth feature, Antigone, Pedro shot in the city where he grew up for the first time.

Image gallery
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Finished
Sessions

May

Thursday 3

  • 20:00 h
  • Cineteca. Sala Azcona
  • By invitation only.
  • 21:00 h
  • Cineteca. Plató
Data sheet
Director
Pedro González Rubio
Language
Spanish - Subtitled in English
Screenplay
Pedro González Rubio
Cinematography
Pedro González Rubio
Editing
Pedro González Rubio
Sound
Ben Guez
Producción
Pedro González Rubio