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Documentary Features Competition

Cinematographer: Alejandro Mejia

Director: Rodrigo Reyes

Producer: Andrew Houchens, Inti Cordera

Writer: Lorena Padilla, Rodrigo Reyes

Editor: Andrea Chignoli, Daniel Chavez Ontiveros

Cast: Eduardo San Juan Breña

Production Company: La Maroma Producciones, RR Cinema LLC

Distribution company (world): The Film Sales Company

Year: 2020

Country: Mexico, USA

Time: 88

Date and place:

2020.11.20, 12:30Horzyca Theatre - Documentary Theatre

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The year 2021 marks the 500th anniversary of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. To commemorate the historic occasion, director Rodrigo Reyes offers a bold, hybrid cinema experience that mixes non-fiction and performative elements with components of a road movie. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, Reyes recreates Hernán Cortez’s epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with real victims and subjects of Mexico’s failed drug wars, the filmmaker portrays the country’s current humanitarian crisis as part of a brutal and unfinished colonial project, still in motion 499 years later.

Documentary Features Competition