2008 | Color | 25 min Two young Triki students attending the Bilingual Teachers? College of the Mexican state of Oaxaca (Escuela Normal Bilingüe e Intercultural de Oaxaca) watched Al Gore?s documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about the threat of global warming. Seeking to share this environmental message with their community as well as to promote the use of the Nanj Nï?ïn language (also known as Triki) in new spaces, the students decided to make a voice-over of the film in their language. In order to translate the script, the students carried out a series of workshops and consultations within the community, to recover words that were no longer in use and to generate new words that they now propose to the Triki community of Yuma? Niko (San Andrés Chicahuaxtla) and neighboring towns. Country: México Direction: Porraz; Bernardo Script: Porraz; Bernardo, Hernández; José Manuel, Vázquez; Ezequiel Production: Alfredo Harp Helú; Fundación Photography: Porraz; Bernardo Sound: Porraz; Bernardo, Jiménez; Ramón Cast:Celia Vázquez; Ana, Vázquez; Juan Participation year at FICM: 2008
2008 | Color | 25 min Two young Triki students attending the Bilingual Teachers? College of the Mexican state of Oaxaca (Escuela Normal Bilingüe e Intercultural de Oaxaca) watched Al Gore?s documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about the threat of global warming. Seeking to share this environmental message with their community as well as to promote the use of the Nanj Nï?ïn language (also known as Triki) in new spaces, the students decided to make a voice-over of the film in their language. In order to translate the script, the students carried out a series of workshops and consultations within the community, to recover words that were no longer in use and to generate new words that they now propose to the Triki community of Yuma? Niko (San Andrés Chicahuaxtla) and neighboring towns. Country: México Direction: Porraz; Bernardo Script: Porraz; Bernardo, Hernández; José Manuel, Vázquez; Ezequiel Production: Alfredo Harp Helú; Fundación Photography: Porraz; Bernardo Sound: Porraz; Bernardo, Jiménez; Ramón Cast:Celia Vázquez; Ana, Vázquez; Juan Participation year at FICM: 2008
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
