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Image Figueroa, José Luis He studied law at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). His work has been presented at more than 10 film showings and festivals around the world. He participated in the 7th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and in the Cine Distrital International Festival: Mexican Film and Other Worlds, Mexico, among other festivals, with his feature-length documentary Tijuaneados anónimos: Una lágrima, una sonrisa (2009); which won the Best Local Film award at the 18th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. His feature documentary Tierra brillante (2011) won the Best Film award at the 8th Festival International du Film Métiers d’Art, Montpellier, France, and the 1st International Festival of Indigenous Film and Video (FICVI), Puebla. It also won the Culture and Archaeological Heritage Award at the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
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Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. See More
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