Don’t Miss the Best in Contemporary Mexican Cinema This Month in Detroit

Dive into the world of Mexican film at this year’s CineMexico Now.

En El Septimo Dia

Cinema Lamont

Click the audio player to listen. CultureShift airs weekdays at noon.

Contemporary Mexican cinema is having a renaissance.

Directors Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro Iñárritu, have dominated recent award ceremonies as well as at the box office. 

From now through October, watch some of the very best of Mexico’s contemporary indie films at Cinema Detroit. 

Listen to the founder of Cinema Lamont and organizer of this year’s CineMexico Now film fest, Josh Gardner, chat with CultureShift’s Amanda LeClaire about the next two films in the series, En El Septimo Dia and Buy Me a Gun.

Check out the full lineup here.

 

 

 

Author

  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning journalist and managing editor and lead reporter of WDET's new environmental series, the Detroit Tree Canopy Project, as well as WDET's CuriosiD podcast. She was the host of WDET’s CultureShift and a founding producer of the station’s flagship news talk show *Detroit Today*. Amanda also served as a Morning Edition host at WDET and previously worked as a host, audio and video producer, and reporter for Arizona Public Media.