Skip to main content
2004 | Color | 53 min

Tropic of Cancer At the height of the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, various families survive by hunting animals which they sell on the freeway.


Country: México
Direction: Polgovsky; Eugenio
Script: Polgovsky; Eugenio
Production: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC);, Polgovsky; Eugenio
Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio
Sound: Muñoz Cota Callejas; Isabel
Music: Frank; Cesar, Preludio en Mi Mayor
Participation year at FICM: 2004

Director Movies

Malintzin 17

Malintzin 17

Minimalist in resources and filmed from the unusual vantage point of a second-floor flat window, Malintzin 17 portrays two parallel expressions of parental care. For seven days and seven nights, filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky and his five-year-old daughter Milena watch a pigeon tending her chick in a dangerous tangle of electrical wires just outside their balcony.

See More

Lightbyrinth

A work of video art inspired by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell; the piece is part of a special initiative to celebrate the opening of the Maxwell Centre. Using Maxwell’s original equipment, including his zoetrope (an animation device), Polgovsky explores the nature of light and perceptions of color in Lightbyrinth.

See More

Trópico de Cáncer

At the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, many families survive by hunting animals and selling them along the highway.

See More

Related News

The Dead Don't Hurt (2023, Dir. Viggo Mortenssen)
Viggo Mortensen’s THE DEAD DON'T HURT To Be the Opening Screening of the 21st FICM
Semana de la crítica en el 21 FICM
La 62a Semana de la Crítica del Festival de Cannes tendrá presencia en el 21er FICM
Impulso Morelia 9
Impulso Morelia 9 Announces Its Selection and International Experts' Panel
ANIMEXICO 2023
Cinépolis and Guillermo del Toro award the 2023 ANIMEXICO Scholarship to a promising young Mexican female talent