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Special screening of the Short Film Program of the Forum Mexican Indigenous Filmmakers at the 17th FICM

The Short Film Program of the Forum Mexican Indigenous Women Filmmakers: identity and new narratives, was presented at the 17th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) by directors Iris Villalpando, Ángeles Cruz, Dolores Santis and María Candelaria; accompanied by Daniela Michel, general director of the Festival and Marina Stavenhagen, Forum coordinator.

“I want to say goodbye to this great Forum which has been an honor and a privilege to have had at the Festival, an encounter to share experiences that are very important to us,” abounded Daniela Michel, expressing the wish to repeat it year after year.

About Yolem Jammut (yoreme woman, 2017), Iris Villalpando commented: “It is a series of three out of five episodes that we made in Sinaloa.”

Iris Villalpando, Ángeles Cruz, Dolores Santis, María Candelaria Palma

The filmmaker from Oaxaca, Ángeles Cruz, described her short film Arcángel (2018) as the story of “a Mixtec woman in abandonment.”
Pox, la bebida sagrada is about a drink we produce in my community, expressed Dolores Santiz, wishing the audience would enjoy it.

María Candelaria concluded by telling the origin of Rojo (2018), a documentary that was born from Ambulante más allá, and is about a boy who juggles in the traffic lights of Acapulco.