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2008 | Color | 15 min

Alejandro returns to his grandmother?s home alter twenty years. Everyone is gone?just the covered old furniture, dusty shelves, and forgotten papers remain. However, the echoes of his past are still there: family reunions, gossip, the old grandmother and Carola, her friend and accomplice.


Country: México
Direction: Flores Contreras; Diego Alejandro
Script: Flores Contreras; Diego Alejandro
Production: Flores Contreras; Diego Alejandro, Zúñiga; Alberto
Photography: Bernardo; Valentina
Sound: Rosales; Harel
Cast:Díaz; Laura, Brueggerhoff; Guillermo, Contreras; Lina, Becerra; Olinda, Ponce De León; Gustavo, Arceo; Diego, Chapela; Miguel Agustín, Mazariegos; Ligia, Pérez Gallardo; Rosa Martha
Art direction: Durán; Lubianca
Participation year at FICM: 2008

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