Yesterday Wonder I was, by Gabriel Mariño, was presented at the 15th FICM

Marco Antonio Mejía

Yesterday Wonder I was, by Gabriel Mariño, was screened at the fifteenth edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), as part of the Mexican Feature Film Section.

The narration presents a lonely character from Mexico City who slips through existence changing bodies uncontrollably. Without knowing when it will happen, he lives a monotonous life traveling from one body to the next and then abandoning thema gain. His boredom and despair are confronted with the love he feels for Luisa.

Siouzana Melikan, Ivan Hernández, Gabriel Mariño, Gabriela Gavica, Hoze Melendez.

Thus, begins a struggle to communicate it through different faces and bodies until, perhaps, being able to be with her despite his condition.

In a press conference, filmmaker Gabriel Mariño said that the purpose of the film was to show a modern story in which fantasy and realism converge. "We had the idea of making a modern fable and a story with fantastic elements with a character that changes body, in addition there were several triggers, among them, to ask if we fall in love with the essence of people or the physical."

Yesterday Wonder I was shot for five weeks and there was no script, but a story that served as a guide for actors Hoze Meléndez and Siouzana Melikian, who said they had no problem to lead their respective characters to the goal of the plot.

"There was clarity in what we had to do in each scene, we rehearsed, on the set Gabriel told us where we should arrive. I liked to work like that because sometimes in cinema things get more technical," said Siouzana Melikian.

"We had the written text and they gave us all the freedom to make suggestions, I never felt on a tightrope because I saw the security with which we work and we caught Gabriel's passion. It is interesting to work with a story that is not realistic," said Hoze Meléndez.

In the afternoon, Yesterday Wonder I was will had a gala screening in which the actors, the director and the producer Gabriela Gavica, answered the audience's questions.