Morelia Film Fest

OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 1st
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The Absent

Los ausentes

2014 | Mexico | Color | 80 min.

A poor man in his 70s lives alone in a house on the coast of Mexico. With no deed to the lot where he lives, he watches on in despair as his house is demolished. Little by little he begins to lose his mind. Memories from a past come unbidden and begin to haunt his daily existence. Thus begins a journey into the mountains and the forest in search of faces from his past and echoes of another time, of a younger self.

Direction: Pereda, Nicolás

Script: Mendoza, Alejandro

Country: Mexico

Production: Alvarado, Daniela | Lenouvel, Thierry | San Juan, Edgar

Production Company: Ciné-Sud Promotion | Film Tank | Tornasol Films

Photography: Romero Suárez, Diego

Edition: Calleja, Aina

Sound: Fortiana Chico, Bernat

Cast: Cárdenas, Guadalupe | Rodríguez, Gabino

Art Direction: González Martínez, Nohemí

Year of participation at FICM:
2014

Films by the same director presented at FICM:

Where are their stories? (2007) Interview with the Earth (2008) Summer of Goliath (2010) Greatest Hits (2012) The Palace (2013) My Skin, Luminous () Fauna (2020) Dear Chantal, ()