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2019 | B/N | 37:49

A Zapotec man from the future recounts how a new invasion of “foreigners” afflicted his hometown in the twenty-first century. While Europeans were undergoing a crisis that made them lose their memory and sense of culture, a group of young people in their Oaxacan village was trying to document their own culture by making a film during Carnival.


Country: México
Direction: Khoshnoudi; Bani
Script: Khoshnoudi; Bani en colaboración con los chicos de Taller8
Production: Pardo; Elena, Khoshnoudi; Bani, Ruíz; Beto
Photography: Ludlow; Dariela
Sound: Segovia; Alicia
Music: Alvarado; Carlos
Cast:Alberto Ruíz, Michael Matus, Javier Lazo Gutiérrez, Jessica Santiago Gúzman, Donají Marcial, Ana Sosa, Juan Montaño, Berenice Guraeib, Isabelle Manhes, Antonio Ruíz, Don Porfirio, Fausto Lazo Hernández, Walter Schmidt, López; Carlos
Art direction: Guraeib; Berenice
Participation year at FICM: 2019

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After he stows away on a cargo ship leaving Turkey, Ramin unexpectedly ends up in Veracruz, Mexico. Having escaped persecution as a young gay man in Iran, his home country, he suddenly finds himself far from everything he knows, experiencing the limbo of exile in a tropical port where his past and future are constantly confronting new relationships and rekindled desires. 

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