Country: Mexico
Year: 2022
Language: Zapotec
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Runtime: 15 mins.
Catalina submits to a tradition of her people called La Balahna, to demonstrate her purity and worth as a woman to her beloved, but her body betrays her and she fails to demonstrate her chastity. What future awaits Catalina in the face of a syncretic love that rejects her?
DIRECTOR
Xóchitl Enriquez Mendoza
She studied Film and Audiovisual Production at the Popular Autonomous University of Puebla State (UPAEP), besides a specialty in Film Scripting at CCC. Her script Maribel won the XVII GIFF National Script Contest 2019. She directed a short called Franco for IMCINE together with her colleague Mariana Martínez.
Director:
Xóchitl Enriquez Mendoza
Cast
Emma Aguilar Malacara
Cinematography:
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Production:
Eréndira Hernández
Screenplay:
Xóchitl Enriquez Mendoza, Samuel Sánchez Tual
Editing:
Rogelio Díaz
Sound:
Octavio Sánchez
Art Direction:
Frank Martínez
contacto: carlos.altamirano@imcine.gob.mx
Screenings
León
23.7.2022
17:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Mateo Herrera 
San Miguel de Allende
26.7.2022
15:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Miguel Malo | Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez "El Nigromante"
Irapuato
29.7.2022
14:00 (Horario CST)
Teatro de la Ciudad