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2010 | Color | 16 min 22 seg

Hacia la Vida is a story that brings together two strangers, each in search of their own redemption. Soledad is a lonely woman who works as a professional funeral weeper.  While on the job, she comes across Salvador, a young man who is mourning the death of a woman he never met —his own mother.


Country: México
Direction: Arizmendi; Fidel
Script: Arizmendi; Fidel
Production: Ruiz De Luna; Fernando, Arizmendi; Fidel
Photography: Caudillo; Alan
Sound: Guevara; Jesús, Borda; Juan Diego
Music: Farías; Gustavo
Cast:Pires; Lidia, Alexander; Eliana, Edda; Alejandro, Ontiveros; Lupe
Participation year at FICM: 2010

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