Canoa: A Shameful Memory

1975 | Color | 115:00

Less than a month after the violence at Tlatelolco in Mexico City, a group of young workers from the University of Puebla travel to the village of San Miguel Canoa, near the state capital, to climb La Malinche mountain. Their adventure turns into a nightmare when the townspeople, incited by the priest, mistake them for “communist guerrillas.”

Direction: Cazals; Felipe
Script: Pérez Turrent; Tomás
Production: Lozoya; Roberto
Photography: Phillips Jr.; Alex
Sound: Topete; Manuel
Cast:Arturo Allegro, Jaime Garza, Rodrigo Puebla, Lucero; Enrique, Vigil; Gerardo, Sosa; Roberto, Chávez; Carlos, Gómez Cruz; Ernesto, Sánchez; Salvador
Art direction: Grandjean; Carlos
Participation year at FICM: 2018

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