The FICMY International Film Festival of Mérida and Yucatán has as its main objective to promote and disseminate Mexican and Latin American cinema (free theme), supporting new filmmakers and providing an important exhibition space, being the most relevant festival in southeastern Mexico. Likewise, one of the priorities of the festival is destined to the exhibition of works that have among its central themes to rescue, preserve, strengthen, prevent and spread the values, principles, traditions, customs, native languages, artistic expressions and the great diversity of the original peoples of the whole world.