MICGénero was created in 2011 in Mexico city with the interest to make an intersection among Human Rights, Gender studies, gender perspective, feminism and cinema, the panorama at that time it was that there was no film festival that addressed all these issues in a single program. Over the years, the festival has expanded and has reached other cities, helping to decentralize the culture of the country’s capital to the states that are most vulnerable in terms of respect for human rights, freedom of the press and alerts violence against women. MICGenero seeks to spread films with gender perspective and human rights in Mexico and encourage analysis and discussion on these subjects in the different Mexican cities to create relationships between filmmakers, distributors, and the cinematographic community, as well as NGOs, institutions and the general public.
To achieve our objectives, debates, lectures and discussions are organized in each edition, made up of specialists in cinematography, gender and human rights. These enrich the film projections because, by integrating the work of academia, civil associations and activists with the daily life of citizens, there is a critical approach from the intersection referred to social phenomena.
MICGenero is set-up by screenings in cinemas, cultural centers, museums and public spaces (documentaries/ fiction short and feature films). Around of the 25% of the total of the screenings have q&a’s with filmmakers and 100 hours of activism, a program in which public officials, NGOs, activist and academics are invited to donate an hour of their time and talk about the film and thus generate spaces for discussion on human rights. During the festival workshops, master classes and conferences have place, all of them focus in some subject related with gender perspective and human rights. The festival try to make events where the topics have relevance in current problems in the Agenda that are necessary to discuss and to dialogue around them with international and national guests experts in this subjects.
Human Rights, Gender studies and feminisms cover diverse agendas, from different contexts and latitudes, a wide range of possibilities and problems are opened up. For this reason, every year we organize a thematic Festival that is representative of each trench and each research line. Under this criterion, we group the films of the official selection within the following categories: Sexual and reproductive rights; Human mobility and migration; Ecofeminisms; Etarisms; Queer and Postporno; Dissonances; Minorities in focus; Resilience; Athletic body; VS. Media; Enclosures and seclusion.