Berlin: New Generation of Mexican Filmmakers on the Rise

It’s the third modern Mexican new wave.

Near 30 years after Alfonso Cuaron’s 1991 debut and 15 after Carlos Reygadas’ “Japan” ushered in a second wave that brought off-the-wall style, high art and sometimes brutal violence to international festivals, a new generation of Mexican producers and directors is enjoying its industry consecration.Take the films on display at Berlin.

Sebastian Hofmann’s “Time Share,” which screens at the European Film Market, won a screenplay award at Sundance last month.

It was co-written and produced by Julio Chavezmontes.

Other Mexican films unspooling in Berlin include the Gael Garcia Bernal starrer “Museum,” which plays in competition, and is from Gerardo Gatica and Alberto Muffelmann’s Panorama Global; and Chavezmontes’ “Land,” which screens in Panorama.Cannes quite possibly beckons for Cuarón’s “Roma,” produced by Pimienta’s Nicolas Celis; Colombian Ciro Guerra’s “Birds of a Passage,” which he co-produced; and French Yann González’s “Knife in Heart,” another Chavezmontes

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