B/N | 95:00 Six interconnected stories of characters wandering Mexico City in the rain, all subsumed in everyday despair. Each character has an unexpected encounter that offers them a glimpse of their own soul: a unique, absurd, luminous, or awkward moment that reveals who they truly are. After these fleeting experiences are over, they sink back into the gloom. Direction: García; Rodrigo Production: Cortés; Paola, Velázquez; Araceli, Müffelmann; Alberto Participation year at FICM: 2022
B/N | 95:00 Six interconnected stories of characters wandering Mexico City in the rain, all subsumed in everyday despair. Each character has an unexpected encounter that offers them a glimpse of their own soul: a unique, absurd, luminous, or awkward moment that reveals who they truly are. After these fleeting experiences are over, they sink back into the gloom. Direction: García; Rodrigo Production: Cortés; Paola, Velázquez; Araceli, Müffelmann; Alberto Participation year at FICM: 2022
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Raymond & Ray Half-brothers Raymond and Ray have always lived in the shadow of a terrible father. Somehow, they both still have a sense of humor, and his funeral is a chance for them to reinvent themselves. There’s anger, there’s pain, there’s folly, there might be love, and there’s definitely gravedigging. See More
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