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2008 | Color | 10 min

On a desert highway in northern Mexico, a family survives extreme poverty by selling animals to the motorists who pass by.


Country: México
Direction: Rojo Aura; Rubén
Script: Urtusástegui; Tomás
Production: Rubalcava; Sara
Photography: Vilchis Ibarra; Ivan
Sound: Coll; Gabriel
Music: Vasallo; Daniel
Cast:Pedroza; Martín, Preciado; Francisco, Mendoza; Lilia, Yáñez; Humberto
Art direction: Romero; Marisela
Participation year at FICM: 2008

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