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Formas de atravesar un territorio
2024 | Color | 72:40

An indigenous Tsotsil women, shepherds and wool weavers, tend their sheep while honoring their land’s memory. The encounter with the filmmaker, in their ancestral mountains, reveals a longing to acknowledge different ways of inhabiting the same territory.


Country: México
Direction: Dominguez Ruvalcaba; Gabriela
Script: Dominguez Ruvalcaba; Gabriela
Production: Quintana Enciso; Pía
Photography: Montell; Natali
Sound: Giraud; Christia
Music: Martínez Lanz; Arcadio
Cast:Hernández; Sebastiana, Pérez Hernández; Maribel, Pérez Hernández; Margarita, Pérez Hernández; Rosalinda, Pérez Hernández; Angelina, Hernández Gómez; Manuelito
Art direction: Coreografía: Cárdenas Landeros; Denisse
Participation year at FICM: 2024

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