2022 | Color | 102:29 Ilán, a fifty-two-year-old visual artist, takes his family on a musical road trip to reconstruct the chaotic, creative life and tragic death of his father, Beno Lieberman, a pioneer of folk music research in Mexico. Confronting the mystery and pain behind Beno’s suicide, Ilán comes to terms with his feelings about his father by opening up to his children and sharing Beno’s enduring musical legacy. Country: México Direction: Lieberman; Ilán Script: Lieberman; Ilán Production: Cohen Ovadia; José Photography: Santamaría; Bruno Sound: González; Roy, Lach; Pablo Music: Ledezma Blum; Juan Manuel Participation year at FICM: 2022
2022 | Color | 102:29 Ilán, a fifty-two-year-old visual artist, takes his family on a musical road trip to reconstruct the chaotic, creative life and tragic death of his father, Beno Lieberman, a pioneer of folk music research in Mexico. Confronting the mystery and pain behind Beno’s suicide, Ilán comes to terms with his feelings about his father by opening up to his children and sharing Beno’s enduring musical legacy. Country: México Direction: Lieberman; Ilán Script: Lieberman; Ilán Production: Cohen Ovadia; José Photography: Santamaría; Bruno Sound: González; Roy, Lach; Pablo Music: Ledezma Blum; Juan Manuel Participation year at FICM: 2022
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