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2005 | Color | 43 min

Keep Being A Alejando, Héctor and Antonio Cerezo, UNAM students, are struggling to survive in Mexico´s worst prison. Emiliana and Franciso Cerezo, who are free, are trying to prove their brothers´ innocence and denounce the irregularities of justice that put them in jail.


Country: México
Direction: Altuna; Emiliano
Script: Altuna; Emiliano
Production: Altuna; Emiliano
Photography: Menéndez; Emiliano
Sound: Huerta; Iyari
Participation year at FICM: 2005

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