Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, or FICCO (Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo) for its initials in Spanish was an annual film festival that began in February 2004 and finished in 2010.
It quickly become one of the most important film festivals in Latin America. It was hosted by Cinemex, one of the two dominant movie theater chains in Mexico. It lasted two weeks and programmed sections on documentary features, fiction, worldwide premieres, retrospectives, and global tendencies in cinema. The jury was composed 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.
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