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2020 | B/N | 95:00

An unemployed and embittered forty-something returns to his parents’ house to say goodbye to his mother, who died recently in suspicious circumstances. But he is unaware of the ghosts which await him there, of a past he believed he had left behind.


Country: México
Direction: Guzmán Álvarez; Alejandro
Script: Lara; Itzel
Production: Monroy; Mariana
Photography: Altamirano; Alfredo, AMC
Sound: Guido Beremblum ASA, Al Rey Bolaño
Music: Campà; Giorgio
Cast:Bonilla; Fernando, Briones; Raúl, Macías; José Concepción
Art direction: Smith Klett; Mary Ann
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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