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Award for Best Short Film, FIFA 2022
Inspired by Mesoamerican mythology, Yollotl depicts the love story between two thousand-year-old trees in the Mayan rainforest that protect a secret. Through testimonies in Nahuatl from local children and a ritual song, the director connects the past and the present, questioning the place occupied by human beings on Earth and in the Universe.
Inspired by Mesoamerican mythology, Yollotl depicts the love story between two thousand-year-old trees in the Mayan rainforest that protect a secret. Through testimonies in Nahuatl from local children and a ritual song, the director connects the past and the present, questioning the place occupied by human beings on Earth and in the Universe.
Other festivals:
Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Germany (2021)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (2020)
Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Germany (2021)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (2020)
Director | Fernando Colin Roque |
Production | Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains |
Editing | Chloé Belloc, Fernando Colin Roque, Mathilde Lavenne |
Cast | La Ceiba, Corazon Diaz, Edwin Guzman, Mariana Guzman, El Tule |
Sound Design | Nicolas VERHAEGHE |
Production
Fernando Colin Roque
Fernando Colin Roque (1989, Mexico) studied visual arts in Mexico before joining the Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. Through his art-work, he tries to understand the human condition, as well as its contradiction, fragility, and ambiguity facing complex facts such as gender, migration, memory, and death. In 2008, he directed Songs of lowland, a documentary that won numerous awards. He participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus. He directed The Living Cry, a production of the Mexican Ministry of Culture, as well as the film Coba: Hope. Ikki Films is producing its next documentary La Vida es un Carnava.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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Dana, Carnaval y Tzompantli (2019)
COBA: Esperanza (2016)
Ixtlilco el Grito Más Vivo (2011)
Al canto del Bajio (2009)
Dana, Carnaval y Tzompantli (2019)
COBA: Esperanza (2016)
Ixtlilco el Grito Más Vivo (2011)
Al canto del Bajio (2009)