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2019 | Color | 39:40

After two years with his adoptive parents in Fort Lauderdale, Matías, an indigenous Mexican child, develops a strange disease and is sent back to his hometown.


Direction: Pereda; Nicolás, Rodríguez; Gabino
Script: Rodríguez; Gabino, Pereda; Nicolás
Production: Bussmann; Andrea, Rodríguez; Gabino, Ortega; Garbiñe, Pereda; Nicolás
Photography: Pereda; Nicolás
Sound: Rodríguez; Gabino, Allen; Kevin T.
Music: Pereda; Nicolás
Participation year at FICM: 2019

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