Expresión en Corto International Film Festival

Movies with Mummy From the stroke of midnight onward, both San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato Capital open their graveyards for the festival's "Cine entre muertos", which screens horror films among the tombstones, the mausoleums and the dead.

Oscar's Night Academy Award winners and nominated short films and documentaries are presented by their directors, who share their experiences with the festival audience.

Each year, GIFF pays homage to the men and women that have given their lives to film, a tribute which demonstrates Mexico's immense respect, admiration and gratitude for their work.

The festival has bestowed this recognition upon both national and international filmmakers, including: Tim Burton, Oliver Stone, Peter Greenaway, Spike Lee, Kenneth Anger, Deepa Mehta, Shyam Benegal, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Eliseo Subiela, Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan-wook, Tongolele, Joaquín Cordero, Irvin Kershner, Gaspar Noé, Felipe Cazals, Josefina Echánove, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Diana Bracho, María Rojo, Miguel Zacarías, Rafael Inclán, Julio Alemán, Don Manuel Esperón, and Marga López, to name a few.

Past honorees have included: Bertha Navarro, Lucrecia Martel, Graciela Borges, Brigitte Broch, Katy Jurado, Angélica Aragón, Gloria Schoemann, Carmen Montejo, Silvia Pinal, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Ofelia Medina, Carla Estrada y María Elena Velasco, Adriana Barraza and Marcela Fernández Violente, to name a few.

By way of special delegates who offer conferences, workshops, retrospectives, as well as present their country's industry; this cultural exchange reinforces the relationships between the creators of both nations while promoting artistic co-production.

This program serves as an extension to the Cinéfondation La Residence, which yearly selects a dozen of the very best young filmmakers in the world and offers them a platform designed to propel their careers.

The eight selected universities will be invited to compete against each other in Guanajuato Capital during the festival, as they attempt to shoot a film in High Definition Video, edit and present their short within 48 hours.

Previous themes have included: "In the Land of the Blind", "Seven Virtues and Seven Sins", "Censorship, Self-Censorship and Provocation", "Breakout Filmmaking", "Identity" and "Liberty".