Sinopsis
Fiction. Three stories that intersect in the feast of San Mateo, the patron saint of a town of the Mixteca Oaxaqueiia. Maria buries her mother again, her father rejects her, and, in her uncertainty and pain, she proposes to Piedad, her childhood love, to go with her. Esteban returns after three years to discover that Chabela, his wife, is having an affair with another man; enraged, he summons the towns people to try her in assembly. Tona lives again her own pain, faced with the sexual abuse of her daughter, and returns to confront her family to protect her daughter. Pains and memories intertwined in a town that is governed by habits and customs.
Originally from the Mixteca Oaxaqueña, Ángeles Cruz is an actress, director and screenwriter. She has participated in films such as “Traición” by Ignacio Ortiz; “La ira o el Seol” by Juan Mora and “El violin” by Francisco Vargas. As the leading role of “Tamara y la Catarina” (2016, directed by Lucía Carreras), she won the Silver Colón for Best Performance at the Huelva Ibero-American Festival and was nominated for the Ariel Award 2018. She was nominated for the Guldbaggen of the Swedish Film Academy as Best Actress for “La hija del Puma” (1994, dir. Ulf Hulberg). His promising foray as a filmmaker and screenwriter was in 2012 with the short film “La tiricia” or how to cure sadness, produced by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, with which he won the Ariel for Best Short Film in 2013, as well as the Palmita that awards the Tour of French Cinema, La Diosa de Plata, the Gender Award in Lambayaque Peru, special mentions in Huelva, etc. In 2013 he wrote and directed the short film “La carta”, also produced by IMCINE, and received a nomination for Best Mexican Short Film at the Ariel Awards in 2015, as well as the Audience Award in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles, California.
Presented by the director of the film Ángeles Cruz and the co-director of the Festival.
With the collaboration of Casa de América, Casa de México en España and Centro de Estudios Mexicanos en UNAM-España.
Cine Estudio del Círculo de Bellas Artes
International Competition
Year of Production: 2021
Running Time: 91’
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish. Original version with English subtitles
Director: Ángeles Cruz
Cast: Noé Hernández, Aída López, Sonia Couoh, Eileen Yañez, Myriam Bravo and Jorge Doal
Producers: Lola Ovando and Lucía Carreras
Production Company: Madrecine
International Sales: FiGa Films
Main festivals and awards: Winner of the Best Screenplay and Audience Awards at the Morelia International Film Festival. Winner of the Audience Award at the Festival de las Palmas, the Critics Award from the jury at San Francisco Films, and the Canvas Award at Mooov Films. Premiered at the Miami International Film Festival.
