After announcing the Mexican selection for its 2014 edition, the Riviera Maya Film Festival has revealed the full lineup and boy oh boy it is bloody amazing. Many highly anticipated films will premiere in Mexico during the festival, such as Nymphomaniac, R100, A Touch of Sin, Blue Ruin, Under the Skin, Hard To Be A God, Blind Detective, Michael Kohlhaas, and I could go on and on.
Riviera Maya 2014 takes place in Quintana Roo, Mexico from March 9-15, and all screenings are absolutely free. Five sections conform the festival and you can check out the films of each one in the gallery below.
For additional information, visit the festival's official website.
Riviera Maya 2014 Lineup
GALAS
Dom Hemingway (UK) - Richard Shepard
Grand Central (France, Austria) - Rebecca Zlotowski
Locke (UK, US) - Steven Knight
Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 (Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, UK) - Lars von Trier
Nymphomaniac: Volume 2 (Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, UK) - Lars von Trier
GRAN PÚBLICO
A Promise (France, Belgium) - Patrice Leconte
Another Life (France) - Emmanuel Mouret
Attila Marcel (France) - Sylvain Chomet
Blind Detective (Hong Kong, China) - Johnnie To
Blue Ruin (US) - Jeremy Saulnier
Computer Chess (US) - Andrew Bujalski
Gerontophilia (Canada) - Bruce La Bruce
Ilo Ilo (Singapore) - Anthony Chen
Je m’appelle Hmmm… (France) - Agnès B.
Oldboy (US) - Spike Lee
Quai d’Orsay (France) - Bertrand Tavernier
Sapi (Phillipines) - Brillante Mendoza
Seduced and Abandoned (US) - James Toback
Sex, Drugs & Taxation (Denmark) - Christoffer Boe
Shield of Straw (Japan) - Miike Takashi
The Double (UK) - Richard Ayoade
Tip Top (Luxembourg, France, Belgium) - Serge Bozon
Walesa: Man of Hope (Poland) - Andrzej Wajda
Willow Creek (US) - Bobcat Goldthwait
PANORAMA AUTORAL
A Touch of Sin (China) - Zhangke Jia
Closed Curtain (Iran) - Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi
Hard To Be A God (Russia) - Aleksey German
Harmony Lessons (Kazakhstan, Germany, France) - Emir Baigazin
Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (Germany, France) - Edgar Reitz
Michael Kohlhaas (France, Germany) - Amaud des Pallieres
Miss Violence (Greece) - Alexandros Avranas
Night Moves (US) - Kelly Reichardt
R100 (Japan) - Matsumoto Hitoshi
’Til Madness Do Us Part (Japan, France, Hong Kong) - Wang Bing
The Backwater (Japan) - Shinji Aoyama
Under the Skin (UK) - Jonathan Glazer
Why Don’t You Play In Hell (Japan) - Sono Sion
PLANETARIO
Diego Star (Canada, Belgium) - Frédérick Pelletier
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Jasmila Zbanic
Grigris (Chad, France) - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Holy Field Holy War (Poland, France) - Lech Kowalski
Jai Bhim Comrade (India) - Anand Patwardhan
My Red Shoes (France) - Sara Rastegar
Rebetiko Crisis: Undue Debt (Italy) - Andrea Segre
Salma (UK, India) - Kim Longinotto
Tir (Italy, Croatia) - Alberto Fasulo
Watermark (Canada) - Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
RIVIERALAB PRESENTA
Reimon (Argentina, Germany) - Rodrigo Moreno
The Last Movie (aka La Última Película) (Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Philippines) - Raya Martin, Mark Peranson
The Militant (Uruguay, Argentina) - Manolo Nieto