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Venero
2025 | Color | 21:23
A water dowser discovers a hidden fount where a well will soon be dug. As the excavation progresses, Cretaceous rock slabs reveal that this semi-desert stretch in the low Mixteca of Puebla was once part of the sea. In Santa Inés Ahuatempan, a Ngiba community where water scarcity is common, ritual practices call the rains and underground rivers.

Country: México
Direction: Tania Ximena
Script: Tania Ximena Ruiz
Production: Tania Ximena Ruiz, Omar Lara
Photography: Alejandro Villanueva Alcocer, Linda López H. Maldonado
Sound: Ariel Baca, Joel Argüelles
Music: Carlos Edelmiro
Cast:N/A
Art direction: N/A
Participation year at FICM: 2025

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