29th San Diego Latino Film Festival

Un mundo extraño: Folk Tales and Speculations Shorts Program

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8 films in package
Una Vez En Xjan Xwan
A young Maya-Mam man makes the decision to head to the US, but a mysterious figure with a large sombrero haunts him as he seeks the support of his closest and most trusted family and friends.
MUSE
An aging and decadent artist rekindles a dangerous relationship with his Muse right before his last exhibition. All goes well... until the inner monster comes out to play.
Strong
With the help of her AI dog, a sixteen year old girl must get her sick mother to another planet where a better life awaits.
La Leyenda del Sombrerón
Chased by an evil being, Susana struggles to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
Hambre
Sinopsis Un niño es atormentado por un pozo hambriento que le exige alimento pero, al verse incapaz de calmarle el hambre, se ve obligado a encontrar otra forma de saciarlo. Synopsis A child is being tormented by a voracious well demanding food from him. But as he proves unable to satisfy its hunger, he drags himself to find another way of feeding it.
L.U.N.A.
Field technician, Lillian Romero, is sent out to diagnose an error from her company's home assistant device L.U.N.A. When she arrives she discovers this is no ordinary error...or home. Inside she meets Jaime and Sarah Campbell, who are having an issue with their home assistant device, L.U.N.A. Only this visit is not like the rest as the device beckons her deeper into the house to reveal the home's true secret.
The Wereback
When the full moon rises, the legend of The Wereback comes alive.
Atrapaluz
When a mysterious light invades socially awkward Lila, she encounters its source: a cyborg who comes to remind her who she was in a past life.
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Sinopsis Un niño es atormentado por un pozo hambriento que le exige alimento pero, al verse incapaz de calmarle el hambre, se ve obligado a encontrar otra forma de saciarlo.

Synopsis A child is being tormented by a voracious well demanding food from him. But as he proves unable to satisfy its hunger, he drags himself to find another way of feeding it.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    15 minutes
  • Language
    Spanish w/ English subtitles
  • Country
    Mexico
  • Premiere
    San Diego
  • Rating
    UR
  • Director
    Carlos Meléndez
  • Screenwriter
    Carlos Meléndez
  • Producer
    Mar Mercado
  • Executive Producer
    Carlos Meléndez, Mar Mercado
  • Cast
    Damian Rodríguez Martínez, Evan Zahid Parra Sánchez, Lilia Mendoza
  • Cinematographer
    Arturo Chu
  • Editor
    Freddy Noriega
  • Animator
    David Godinez
  • Production Design
    Sofía Compean, María Compean
  • Composer
    Juan Pablo Villa, Dan Zlotnik
  • Sound Design
    Lex Ortega
  • Music
    Juan Pablo Villa, Dan Zlotnik
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