Country: Mexico
Year: 2020
Language: Mixteco
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Runtime: 13 mins.
A young Indigenous boy imagines his future while listening to the sounds of a seashell, while an Indigenous man recalls his past listening to the same shell. The man remembers listening to birds and looking at fireflies in his childhood, but these are no longer there. The short film is invites an audience to consider past, present and future of a changing landscape and vanishing biodiversity. In Mesoamerica the seashell is a symbol for time. This short film invites us to reflect on past, present and future in a changing landscape where the natural environment is slowly disappearing.
DIRECTOR
Itandehui Jansen
Itandehui Jansen was born in Oaxaca, Mexico and studied film directing at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. She participated in different international film programs, such as Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam and the Berlinale Talent Campus. Her documentaries and short films screened at international festivals such as the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) and the Morelia International Film Festival. Her short film The Last Council won several international awards and was nominated for the Mexican Film Critics Award Diosa de Plata. At present she is the ProgrammeDirector for the Practice Film BA at the University of Edinburgh.
Director:
Itandehui Jansen
Cast
Nu Kahnu
Cinematography:
Itandehui Jansen
Production:
Armando Bautista García
Screenplay:
Armando Bautista García
Editing:
Stephen Horne
Music:
Enrica Sciandrone
Sound:
Ali Murray
contacto: i.jansen@ed.ac.uk
Screenings
GIFF OnLine
disponible a partir del:18.9.2020
00:00 (Horario CST)
GIFF OnLine
Irapuato
21.9.2020
13:30 (Horario CST)
Cinemex Sala 7 Plaza Jacarandas 
Guanajuato, Capital
25.9.2020
13:30 (Horario CST)
Cinemex Sala 7 Plaza Pozuelos