The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde...
The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde in cinematography first-hand and before anyone else.
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Official Selection Mexico 3
FILMS:
More and more and more flowers
The cempasúchil flower is used during the Day of the Dead to help guide spirits back to their families, often placed on the altars built to receive our loved ones. As we follow the flower’s migration, we encounter people who have lost a loved one to Covid-19. Converging the flower’s omniscient perspective with our characters’ loving tributes, más y más y más flores offers both an understanding of the unique grief of losing a loved one to the pandemic and a cultural tradition that helps us honor the lives we’ve lost by guiding them back home.
Director: César Martínez Barba
Duration: 24 min
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Spiritum
Ramiro is a young addict admitted to a rehab center. At first, he distances himself from everyone, but gradually the experiences and the words of the other patients confronts him with his reality.
Director: Adolfo Margulis,Adolfo Margulis
Duration: 24 min
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Hawk Boy Sleeps Amidst Visions of a Fire
The hawk boy believes he has the power in his eyes to be enlightened. His transfiguration into a bird of prey leads him to fly over a burning territory in search of carrion for the pack. In his attempt to please the clan, the predator gets so close to the fire that he thinks he has gone blind, or has he entered a dream in which he is vanishing within the smoke?
Kamikaze bird that has embarked on a journey to a savage place of no return. A representation of the state of overflowing violence brought from drug trafficking through the oneiric vision of a marginal teenager recruited by a cartel.
Director: Mauricio Sáenz-Cánovas
Duration: 18 min
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The Captivities
The world is an empty and cold place. razed.
there’s no time. there’s no space.
maybe there’s nothing beyond violence.
When there isn’t a single path to safety,
the only refuge is a forest
and the only possible salvation is through a spell ⁜
Director: Silvia Jiménez
Duration: 7 min
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The Tone Of The Sea
Through a series of voicemails, a Mexican migrant worker struggles to connect back home, while the harsh environment she now lives in is reflected onto the only thing she thought would be familiar: the sea.
Director: Mica Bolaños Meade
Duration: 6 min
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¡Beso de lengua!
Sitting inside a coffee shop that specializes in experimental desserts, Itzcóatl and Moisés are having their first date. Both boys are nervous, they ask each other different questions to keep the conversation and date flowing. As the date goes on, they both discover their compatibility; they have a similar humor and a vast knowledge on LGBTQIA+ lingo. After multiple milkshakes, cupcakes and macarons are eaten, they “play” an unusual and riveting game created by them. Full of passion and saliva, this game strengthens their romantic chemistry.
Director: José Luis Zorrero
Duration: 15 min