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First mexican feature film about the Afro-mexican community. Among the black people in the Costa Chica in Oaxaca, it is socially accepted that a man lives with more than one woman. Juana and Magdalena share Neri's love, they both know that this situation is hurting them. Juana will have to die in order to show Magdalena a new path for her life.


Direction: Pérez Solano; Jorge
Production: Gutiérrez Miranda; César, Pérez Solano; Jorge
Photography: Gutiérrez Miranda; César
Sound: Enríquez; José Miguel, Haro; Germán
Cast:Acevedo Corcuera; Felipe Neri, Gallardo; Sara, Baños; Ángela Hortencia, Corcuera Herrera; Noé, Ruíz Salinas; Elena de la Luz, Colón Salinas; Marcelino, Mariche Domínguez; Juana, Soriano; Magdalena
Art direction: Lola Ovandoe
Participation year at FICM: 2017

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Hoping to improve their lives, men migrate without realizing that they destroy what they want to save: their families. This is the story of Diamantina and Araceli, two young women from Oaxaca whose men leave for the north in search of a better life. When they return to the village, nothing is the same anymore.

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