2022 | B/N | 05:34 Ajá in Oaxaca´s chontal language means water. This essay makes an exploration and reinterpretation of the chontal people’s mystic ceremony of rain pleading. We offer this audiovisual to Simitrio, my uncle, curandero (medicine man), musician and prayer, who recently passed away. He alongside Martin, prayer and spiritual bearer, guide us with his narration. Country: México Direction: López Sosa; Dennis Noel Script: López Sosa; Dennis Noel Production: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Vargas; Víctor, Romero; Fausto, Álvarez; Mauricio Photography: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Dávila; Salvador, Hernández; Hugo Sound: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Hernández; Hugo, Fragoso; Karla Music: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Vargas; Víctor, Romero; Fausto, Álvarez; Mauricio Cast:Méndez Santiago; Simitrio, González Espinoza; Martín Participation year at FICM: 2023
2022 | B/N | 05:34 Ajá in Oaxaca´s chontal language means water. This essay makes an exploration and reinterpretation of the chontal people’s mystic ceremony of rain pleading. We offer this audiovisual to Simitrio, my uncle, curandero (medicine man), musician and prayer, who recently passed away. He alongside Martin, prayer and spiritual bearer, guide us with his narration. Country: México Direction: López Sosa; Dennis Noel Script: López Sosa; Dennis Noel Production: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Vargas; Víctor, Romero; Fausto, Álvarez; Mauricio Photography: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Dávila; Salvador, Hernández; Hugo Sound: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Hernández; Hugo, Fragoso; Karla Music: López Sosa; Dennis Noel, Vargas; Víctor, Romero; Fausto, Álvarez; Mauricio Cast:Méndez Santiago; Simitrio, González Espinoza; Martín Participation year at FICM: 2023
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
