Mexico’s main movie competition, based within the capital of Michoacán in 2003 to have fun auteur cinema, this yr welcomes Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay as Jury President of the twenty third Morelia Worldwide Movie Pageant. This yr’s competition runs October 10 – 19.
Co-founded by Common Director Daniela Michel, President Alejandro Ramírez Magaña, and Vice President Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel, Morelia is acknowledged as Mexico’s most necessary movie competition and one in every of Latin America’s most important.
As Jury President, DuVernay will lead the panel accountable for deciding on this yr’s profitable movies. “To function Jury President of Morelia this yr is a real privilege,” she informed IndieWire. “I like the ability of Mexican cinema. Having been formed so superbly by Alejandro Ramírez Magaña and Daniela Michel, the important place of this glorious competition throughout the movie world can’t be overstated. I’m keen to affix my esteemed colleagues on the jury and to as soon as once more be embraced by Morelia’s heat and marvel.”
Whereas Morelia doesn’t all the time designate a single jury president for its varied sections, previous editions have featured in main juror roles Alexander Payne (2024), Rodrigo Prieto (2023), Paweł Pawlikowski (2022), Volker Schlöndorff (2021), John Bailey (2020), Lila Avilés (2019), and Lynne Ramsay (2018).
“The Morelia Worldwide Movie Pageant is honored to have Ava DuVernay — a filmmaker with boundless artistic power and a cutting-edge imaginative and prescient — preside over the competition jury,” stated Michel. “Mexican cinema will profit drastically from her perspective. It is going to be an immense privilege to welcome her again to Morelia.”
Further members of the jury embrace Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger, who will current his Oscar-nominated “Robotic Desires”; David Linde, co-founder of Focus Options and producer of movies from Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu; and Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (“Monica”).
The 2025 program is a mixture of Mexican and worldwide function movies, alongside particular occasions celebrating cinema. The competition will open with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian Oscar entry “The Secret Agent,” and also will showcase established competition titles together with Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” Invoice Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Girl,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Korean Oscar submission Park Chan-wook’s “No Different Selection,” Norway’s Oscar entry, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth,” and the German Oscar choice, Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling.”
Confirmed visitors embrace Juliette Binoche (“In-I: In Movement”), Rodrigo García with the forged of Netflix’s “Las Locuras” (premiering on the competition), Palme d’Or-winner Jafar Panahi (“It Was Simply an Accident”), Lucrecia Martel (“Nuestra Terra”), Robin Campillo (“Enzo,” co-directed with Laurent Cantet), Oliver Laxe (“Sirat”), Alexandre O. Philippe, Tomás Corredor, Javier Espada, and Michael Almereyda.
DuVernay’s movies embrace “Origin” (Neon), which DuVernay offered finally yr’s competition; Finest Image nominee “Selma“; BAFTA- and Emmy-winning Oscar-nominated documentary “thirteenth” (Netflix); Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time“; and Sundance directing award-winner “Center of Nowhere.” She additionally created the BAFTA-, Critics Selection-, and Emmy-winning collection “When They See Us.” DuVernay was the primary African-American girl to direct a movie nominated for Finest Image on the Academy Awards.
The complete lineup, together with Mexican movies in competitors, could be discovered right here.
DuVernay can be the founding father of the narrative change studio ARRAY, recipient of the Peabody Institutional Award. She holds honorary Physician of Fantastic Arts levels from Yale College and Morehouse Faculty. The Smithsonian awarded her in 2025 with its Nice Individuals Medal. DuVernay serves on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, representing the administrators department, and holds advisory roles with each the Administrators Guild of America and the American Movie Institute.
