Country: Germany, Mexico
Year: 2022
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 15 mins.
Father is dead. Daughter and son carry his corpse south of the border. Despite the risk this journey entails, they set out to bury him at the place that used to be home. A migrant family story.
DIRECTOR
Sofia Ayala
Sofía Ayala was born in 1994 in Mexico City where she studied Dramatic Literature and Theatre at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2018 she was accepted to study Film Directing at the German Film and Television Academy of Berlin (DFFB). The first short film written and directed by 28-year-old Sofía Ayala, VOLVER A SUR (2022), was selected to be part of the annual Next Generation Short Tiger exhibition. This is the most important film support for up-and-coming filmmakers in Germany. The international premiere of the programme took place at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Ayala was the only Mexican director to be included in the selection of 9 short films produced in Germany. The German Film Classification Agency (Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung) awarded Ayala's short film the classification of "Especially valuable" (Besonderes Wertvoll) and described it as "an appeal against looking away, against tolerating, against ignorance."
Director:
Sofia Ayala
Cast
Laura Fernández, Felix Lari Strümpel, Asad Schwarz, Dora Stütz, Guillermo Díaz Estrella, Sophie de Frenne, Severin Hütte
Cinematography:
Hannes Schulze
Production:
Rike Lange
Screenplay:
Sofia Ayala
Editing:
Elena Weihe
Music:
Lucas Castillo Villamil, Pancho Ruiz
Sound:
Anna Magdalino, Elena Weihe
Art Direction:
Susanne Ruppert, Mael Ryuta
contacto: press.volveralsurfilm@gmail.com
Screenings
León
20.7.2023
15:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Mateo Herrera 
San Miguel de Allende
25.7.2023
16:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Miguel Malo | Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez "El Nigromante"
Irapuato
29.7.2023
15:00 (Horario CST)
Teatro de la Ciudad