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2009 | Color | 7 min

In the Chihuahua dessert, an ingenious but unlucky armadillo has to cross the border and face the dangers beyond to bring food to its new large family.


Country: México
Production: Pavia Silva; Carolina
Sound: Martínez Ordoñez; Jacobo
Music: Westheimer; Cody
Participation year at FICM: 2009

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