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2020 | Color | 91:34

María returns to bury her mother, her father vanishes her from the wake, in pain, she proposes to Piedad, her childhood love, to leave with her. Esteban returns from the US to discover that his wife Chabela is with another man, so he calls a community assembly to prosecute her in. Toña relives her own pain of the abuse she was victim of in the past and that is now her daughter’s. 3 stories that intertwine in a village of the Mixtec Oaxaca.


Country: México
Direction: Ángeles; Cruz
Script: Ángeles; Cruz
Production: Ovando; Lola, Carreras; Lucía, Cruz; Ángeles
Photography: Correa; Carlos
Sound: Castillo Fillomarino; Rodrigo, Tamez; Pablo
Music: Luengas; Rubén
Cast:Doal; Jorge, Couoh; Sonia, Bravo; Myriam, López; Aida, Yáñez; Eileen, Hernández; Noé
Art direction: Pineda; Basia
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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