FICCO

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Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, or FICCO (Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo) for its initials in Spanish is an annual film festival that began in February of 2004. It has quickly become one of the most important film festivals in Latin America. It is hosted by Cinemex, one of the two dominant movie theater chains in Mexico. It lasts two weeks and programs sections on documentary features, fiction, worldwide premieres, retrospectives, and global tendencies in cinema. The jury is comprised of important figures of the film industry worldwide.

In the 4th edition of 2007 it programmed documentary retrospectives on Peter Watkins and Peter Whitehead, a retrospective on Robert Bresson, Pedro Costa.