2019 · México · Color · 21 min.
Chanting saved Domitila from a deadly fever. From then on, she has used her voice as a spiritual bridge. She decides to pray for the souls of the dead in her hometown, San Miguel Pocitos in Puebla, Mexico.
Direction: Ruiz Velázquez, Diego Rodrigo
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Country: México
Production: Chávez, Bernardo | Ruiz, Diego
Production Company: ENAC-UNAM | Films Malforjadas
Photography: Sánchez Arias, Mauricio
Edition: Ruiz, Diego | Rivera, Octavio | Campos Nieto, Arturo
Sound: Chávez, Bernardo
Music: García Lieberman, Nicolás
Cast: Rodríguez Cruz, Domitila
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Year of participation at FICM: 2020
2020 · Japón, México · Color · 15 min.
The story of a Japanese woman who left her native archipelago in 1941 to marry a compatriot living in Mexico, a man 17 years her senior. Through fragments of home moves, anime, and filmed sequences, the director sculpts a complex and delicate memory landscape between the two shores of the Pacific.
Direction: Ruiz, Nicolasa
Script: Ruíz, Nicolasa
Country: Japón, México
Production: Valencia, Paulina
Production Company: IMCINE
Photography: Durazo, Adrián | Ruíz, Nicolasa
Edition: Ruíz, Nicolasa
Sound: Becka, Thomas
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Animation: Sánchez, Rodolfo
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Year of participation at FICM: 2020
2019 · México · Color · 18 min.
With an emphasis on local sounds, starring advertisements blared from shops and trucks, this documentary is a sensory ethnography of communication in a region founded by refugees from the eruption of the Chichonal volcano. An exploration of indigenous cultural richness and a condemnation of the pressures they face in trying to maintain their lands and their rights.
Direction: Kak, Saúl, Fairbanks, Charles
Script: Kak, Saúl | Fairbanks, Charles
Country: México
Production: Kak, Saúl | Fairbanks, Charles
Production Company: Kak, Saúl | Fairbanks, Charles
Photography: Fairbanks, Charles
Edition: Fairbanks, Charles
Sound: Kak, Saúl
Music: Paris, Hugo Lavender
Cast: Kak, Saúl | Fairbanks, Charles
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Art Direction: Kak, Saúl
Year of participation at FICM: 2020
2020 · México · Color · 23 min.
A portrait of a woman who has survived and endured the challenges of being one—a woman—in northern Mexico. Shot in Sinaloa, where Refugio revisits her past homes and describes the crucial moments that shaped her as a person, each story depicts the dynamic between the sexes and the oppression of women in society.
Direction: Yazbek Bernal, Tamara
Script: Yazbek Bernal, Tamara
Country: México
Production: Bernal, Patricia | Barba Hallal, Fabián
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Photography: Yazbek Bernal, Tamara
Edition: Yazbek Bernal, Tamara
Sound: Barba Hallal, Fabián
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Art Direction: Barba Hallal, Fabián
Year of participation at FICM: 2020
2019 · México · Color · 10 min.
Traveling aimlessly, a trailer journeys deep into the bowels of a missing city, a black cat, and 20º below zero.
Direction: Acuña Arellano, Manuel
Script: Acuña, Manuel
Country: México
Production: EICTV - Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión | Cuba
Production Company: Contratiempo Cine
Photography: Acuña, Manuel
Edition: Acuña, Manuel
Sound: J. Pérez, Rubí
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Art Direction: Acuña, Manuel
Year of participation at FICM: 2020
2020 · México · Color · 31 min.
Great Altar Desert, Mexico-US border. On one of the most dangerous and highly militarized borders in the world, the binational Tohono O’odham community, indigenous inhabitants of the desert, experience their everyday nomadism as a form of resistance against the multiple threats that assail them.
Direction: Sepúlveda Martínez, Juan Manuel
Script: Sepúlveda Martínez, Juan Manuel
Country: México
Production: Sepúlveda Martínez, Juan Manuel | González, Viana
Production Company: Fragua Cinematografía
Photography: Sepúlveda Martínez, Juan Manuel
Edition: Sepúlveda Martínez, Juan Manuel | Mora Salazar, Lorenzo
Sound: Aguilar, Nicolás | Fernández, Pablo | Enríquez, José Miguel
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Cast: Gaytán Chiquete, Aylín | Berver Ramírez, Briseyra Guadalupe | Mora Ramírez, Victoria | Gutiérrez Velasco, Lourdes Elena | Velasco León, Olga | Gutiérrez Velasco, Sergio | Berver Ramírez, Axel | Gutiérrez Velasco, Sebastián | Gaytán Chiquete, Daniel | Gutiérrez, Os
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Year of participation at FICM: 2020
