Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, or FICCO (Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo) for its initials in Spanish was an annual film festival founded by film producers Michel Lipkes and Paula Astorga in February 2004. The festival ran for seven years, ending in 2010 and reopened in 2014 for Narrative only Film. 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 2007 it programmed documentary retrospectives on Peter Watkins and Peter Whitehead, and a retrospective on Robert Bresson and Pedro Costa.

Awards

FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Narrative Film

FICCO-Cinemex Award for Best Documentary Film

Best Latin American Film

FICCO-Movie City Award for Best Debut Film

Pfizer Human Rights Award

Exxonmobil Award for Best Female Director

Best Mexican Digital Film

Fipresci Award for Best Mexican Documentary Film