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2020 | Color | 76:11

An exploration of unknown life in ten deserts around the world. A documentary built out of negligence, misunderstanding, surprise, and mutual amazement; a film that reflects on the idea of community and the relationship between man and his environment: a relationship in which nature, beasts, and human beings depend on each other to continue inhabiting a world that is supposed to be barren.


Country: México
Direction: González Reyes; Everardo
Script: González; Everardo
Production: de Stéfano; Alfredo, Payán; Inna, Garza; Roberto
Photography: González; Everardo
Sound: Barberis; Matías
Music: Vizzi; Raúl
Participation year at FICM: 2020

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Residents from the ejido (communal land) "Los Cuates de Australia" in northeast Mexico, prepare for a mass exodus every year in search of water during the dry season. While in exile, men, women, elders and children wait for the first drops of water before returning to their lands, a metaphor of a small town that, along the way, hides from death.

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