2018 | B/N | 95:00 1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them. Direction: Springall; Alejandro Script: basado en La ruta de los caídos de Guillermo Munro Palacio, Sayles; John Production: Springall; Alejandro, Campos; Edher, Salinas; Luis, Navarro; Bertha Photography: Saldívar Tanaka; Sergei Sound: Locatelli; Raúl, Lach; Pablo Music: Lieberman; Jacobo Cast:Jason Tobin, Flavio Medina, Rafael Cebrián, Ben Milliken, Patricia Ortiz, Abbie Del Villar Chi, Carolina Molva, Torres; Harold, Zacarías; Giovanna, González; Erando, Cosío; Joaquín, Heredia; Dolores, Manuel Bernal; Juan Art direction: Valdez; Sandro Participation year at FICM: 2018
2018 | B/N | 95:00 1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them. Direction: Springall; Alejandro Script: basado en La ruta de los caídos de Guillermo Munro Palacio, Sayles; John Production: Springall; Alejandro, Campos; Edher, Salinas; Luis, Navarro; Bertha Photography: Saldívar Tanaka; Sergei Sound: Locatelli; Raúl, Lach; Pablo Music: Lieberman; Jacobo Cast:Jason Tobin, Flavio Medina, Rafael Cebrián, Ben Milliken, Patricia Ortiz, Abbie Del Villar Chi, Carolina Molva, Torres; Harold, Zacarías; Giovanna, González; Erando, Cosío; Joaquín, Heredia; Dolores, Manuel Bernal; Juan Art direction: Valdez; Sandro Participation year at FICM: 2018
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