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Las frías sobras
2022 | Color | 29:56

The Vampire of Capital follows the lives of a young couple and their baby in a gridlocked megalopolis. Mutual suspicions of infidelity, the alienating routine and insolvency are resolved in a dynamic montage of contrasts and contradictions, expressed in different cinematographic formats in the Kino-eye style.


Country: México
Direction: Cruz Villalba; Pablo
Script: Cruz Villalba; Pablo
Production: Cruz Villalba; Pablo, Castro; Dahet, Romero; Ana Karina
Photography: Cruz Villalba; Pablo, Torres; Karime
Sound: Mercado; Javier
Cast:Vite Cortes; Noah, Barrios; Marcelina, Gutierrez; Israel
Art direction: Luisa Valender
Participation year at FICM: 2022

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