Story
Jungle, demons and a mysterious yong woman: the new film from Mexican director Yulene Olaizola plunges deep into the mythological world of the Maya. 1920, the green no man’s land between Mexico and Belize. A group of Mexicans are tapping chicle from the trees in the primeval forest, a viscous substance that the Mayas used as chewing gum. Suddenly, the men find an unconscious young woman and take her to their camp. The presence of the mysterious stranger causes tensions amongst the men and stimulates their imaginations. One by one, they fall under her spell – and realize too late that they have woken Xtabay, a Maya demoness who lurks in the heart of the jungle.
Director
YULENE OLAIZOLA (*1983) studied Film at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City. In 2009, she graduated with the prize-winning documentary Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies. In 2011, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed her film Artificial Paradises and in 2016 Epitaph.Info
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Fiction Feature
Spanish, English, Maya, Creole
Vitrina | FF2020
Mexico, France, Colombia
2020
96 min
OV with English subtitles
Yulene Olaizola
Yulene Olaizola, Rubén Imaz
Indira Andrewin, Gilberto Bararaza, Mariano Tun Xool, Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez, Eligio Meléndez
Pablo Zimbrón, Rubén Imaz, Yulene Olaizola
Sofía Oggioni
José Miguel Enríquez Rivaud
Rubén Imaz, Yulene Olaizola, Israel Cárdenas, Pablo Chea
Alejandro Otaola
Luis Rojas Luino
Samuel Conde
Varios Lobos (Pablo Zimbrón)
malacosa CINE; Varios Lobos
Pablo Zimbrón: pablo@varioslobos.com, alacosacine@gmail.com