Guadalajara International Film Festival

The organisers describe the festival as a cultural and film event of major significance for Guadalajara and Mexico, and as a leading platform for showcasing and distributing Mexican and Latin American cinema. They say it treats cinema as an industry, as entertainment and as an art form, and that it is meant for everyone.

They also call it Mexico's longest-running film festival and the most established one in Latin America. They present it as a space for training and creative exchange among professionals, international critics and students from Ibero-America.

The 2027 edition is confirmed for 6 to 13 March in Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco. The festival usually takes place in March, with dates announced by the organisers.

The festival runs industry programmes aimed at different sectors of Ibero-American cinema, each focused on a particular stage of development or theme.

The Co-Production Meetings last 3 days and bring together representatives of feature films in development with international film professionals. Pitch Guadalajara is a 4-day series of public pitches covering film schools, fantasy-genre projects, publishers seeking to sell adaptation rights and narrative video games.

Guadalajara Construye shows rough cuts of fiction features seeking finance to finish, over 3 days of screenings for a closed audience of industry professionals. DocuLab is a laboratory for Ibero-American documentaries in post-production. Episode 0: Series in Development pairs TV series projects with professionals able to move them towards production.

The Guadalajara Construye works-in-progress initiative has run since 2008.

FICGames PlayTest is a hands-on space where 10 video games can be tried out with a controller. It is meant for discovering titles that push interactive storytelling further.

Guadalajara Construye works-in-progress screenings are held behind closed doors for the programme's partners and participants, so they are not open to the general public. Plan around that if you hope to see those rough cuts.