TIJUANA. Mexico's famous documentary tour Ambulante will open its 11th edition tonight at 8:00 p.m. in Tijuana's Cultural Center (Cecut), with a one-time screening of Somos Lengua (2016), a documentary about Mexico's rapping community.

Tijuana rapper Danger is one of the hip-hop artists who make an appearance in this documentary directed by Mexican-Nigerian Kyzza Terrazas.

During its week-long stay in the city, ending on May 26, several locations dedicated to film and culture will be showing over 71 Mexican and international documentaries and animated films. We will be publishing on this site all the scheduled projections and trailers for each film, so you can organize your own time for them, because some of them will be a one-time deal.

On the subject to music this Saturday will see the screening of David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders (1973) in Zona Río's Cinépolis theater; this movie is a video registry of the last ever concert Bowie performed as the character Ziggy. Also, Junun (2015) by director Paul Thomas Anderson will be shown on two separate occasions, May 23 and 26; the film follows Anderson's journey with Radiohead's lead guitarist and frequent collaborator Jonny Greenwood, to record an album in India.

Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) made by Californian Amy Berg will also be shown in Zona Rio's cinemas.

Over half the movies will be for free, including Mexican wide releases for La Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), El Paso (Everardo González, 2015) and Magnum's photographer Maya Goded's debut feature, Plaza de la Soledad (2015), which narrates the lives led by the prostitutes she depicted in her work for over 20 years.

A "film-roll" that will start on Cecut calls for the audience to see "La Vida es Sagrada" (2015) in "La Ocho" Park.

With a focus on gender equality all throughout the tour (53 female and 48 male featured directors), the scheduled films address issues such as the LGBTQ community, female sexuality, migration, the environment, the justice system, familiar relationships and the high levels of violence in the country, the last of which will be openly discussed after the showing of "Tempestad" in the presence of this film's director, representatives from the Autonomous University of Baja California's Tijuana campus and the non-profit Henry Boell México political foundation.

You can download the program here.

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