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1998 | Color | 16 min

Mrs. Pina, a widow in her sixties who sells pozole, and her only son, a lazy man named Cruz, have created a monotonous life in a por neighborhood in Guadalajara called San Juan de Dios. Any change in the routine could be deadly.


Country: México
Direction: Márquez; Kenya
Script: Suárez; Alfonso, Márquez; Kenya
Production: Márquez; Cecilia, Lambert; Pedro
Photography: Saldívar Tanaka; Serguei
Sound: Ojeda; Aurora
Music: Marón; Julieta
Cast:Alcázar; Damián, Bichir; Bruno, Bichir; Demián, Murguía; Ana Ofelia, Uriel; Lorena
Art direction: Guzmán; Víctor
Participation year at FICM: 2011

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