FAMILIAR TALE 2017 | Color | 20 min. Direction: Sumie García Script: Sumie García | Oscar Velázquez Production: Santiago de la Paz Nicolau | Lucía Díaz Álvarez | Sumie García | Alejandro Quintero Production Company: Nómadas Photography: Sumie García Edition: Sumie García Sound: Santiago de la Paz Nicolau Music: Josué Collado Cast: Yukio Saeki Animation: Daniel Farah FICM Awards: Ojo for Mexican Short Documentary | Mexican Short Film Section Year of participation at FICM: 2017 SYNOPSIS: Foto Saeki is an analog photo store on Cedro St. in the Santa María la Ribera neighborhood in Mexico City. Its owner, Yukio Saeki, came to Mexico in 1955. Now 83 years old, he can still hear the echo of a Monday morning when he was 13, as he walked toward the ocean in Japan, near Hiroshima, and the atomic bomb fell from the sky.
