The official competitive sections of the Guadalajara International Film Festival comprise nine categories: Mezcal Award, Ibero-American Fiction Feature Film, Ibero-American Documentary Feature Film, Maguey Award, Made in Jalisco, Socio-Environmental Film Award, International Animated Feature Film, Rigo Mora Award and Ibero-American Short Film .
One of the primary tasks of the Guadalajara International Film Festival is to amplify and ensure that its lineup includes films with diverse profiles and origins. In this way, the official selection of the FICG includes both entertaining and more complex films.
Thematic exhibitions are scheduled annually with outstanding productions from the last year; Thus, the upcoming box office hits and award-winning films at the most important festivals in the world are taken into account.
One of the most notable tasks of the Guadalajara International Film Festival is to recognize the work of the various actors who come together in the cinematographic work and who allow the public to be part of this universe. In that spirit, each year the Festival provides well-deserved recognition to the careers of national and international film professionals for their valuable contributions to the seventh art.
