Juan Manuel Sepulveda
2021
Retrato de una mujer casada
Alberto Bojórquez
Alma Muriel, Gonzalo Vega
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
A Married Woman
La balada del Oppenheimer Park
Juan Manuel Sepulveda
Harley Prosper, Janet Brown
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park is a film that celebrates the everyday life of a group of Indigenous people, exiles from Canadian reserves, who, over a fleeting summer, hang out in a contested park in Vancouver. Through direct participation in the filmmaking process, the day to day becomes a ceremonial space in the ongoing confrontation against law and order.
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park
La sombra del desierto (o El paraíso recobrado)
Juan Manuel Sepulveda
Victoria Yeraldi Mora Ramírez, Briseyra Guadalupe Berver Ramírez
While an exodus of migrants waits to cross the deadly Altar Desert towards the US, the last Natives of the desert survive a diaspora that has them on the verge of vanishing.
The Shadow of the Desert (or the Paradise Regained)
La Vida Suspendida de Harley Prosper
Juan Manuel Sepulveda
Harley Prosper
As a child, Harley Prosper was chosen and trained to be the Shaman of a Cree community in Canada. Growing up, Harley rejects this responsibility and flees to Vancouver, defying the spirit that chose him. Confined in a hospice for the terminally ill, the film follows the life of a man willing to desecrate his sacred mission.
The Still Life of Harley Prosper
Extraño rumor de la tierra cuando se abre un surco
Juan Manuel Sepulveda
What does the land of a community ravaged by war save? In the orchard of Juana López, in the Ixil Community “31 de Mayo”, in Guatemala, opening a furrow becomes a song of hope.
The strange sound of the land being opened in a furrow
