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2003 | Color | 19 min

A man and woman who as children had traveled on the same boat fleeing from war, meet 35 years later at a hospital. The memory of their love affair leads them to try to continue where they left of.


Country: México
Direction: Chenillo; Mariana
Script: Chenillo; Mariana
Production: Rodríguez; Hugo, Castro; Ángeles
Photography: Huezo; Tatiana
Sound: Galaz; Galileo, Ezquenazi; Lena
Music: Lieberman; Jacobo, Heiblum; Leonardo
Cast:Langer; Verónica, Becerril; Fernando, Pupko; Ilana, Amper; Kevin
Art direction: García; Alejandro
Participation year at FICM: 2004

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