Synopsis
A nahual emerges in animal form to deliver a warning: the land of Yucatán is being wounded and desecrated. As the Maya train megaproject continues, Falú confronts his identity and sense of belonging, caught between preserving his roots and the forces that threaten to erase them.
Filmmaker
Diana Toucedo
She is a filmmaker and editor, and works at the intersection of cinema and research. Her work has been selected at festivals such as the Berlinale, San Sebastián, Visions du Réel, Nara, São Paulo, and DocLisboa. She has edited over 35 feature films, awarded at IDFA, Rotterdam, Cannes, and Moscow. Her debut, Trinta lumes, premiered at the Berlinale 2018; she is currently finalizing her second feature and developing her third.
Filmography: History doesn’t know my name yet (short, 2025, D'A 2026), Tattooed on Our Eyes We Carry the Aftertaste (short, 2022, D'A 2022), Prekasno (short, 2021), Border (short, 2020), Thirty Souls (2018, D'A 2018), Black Body (short, 2016), Men (short, 2016), Por que non cantades todas (short, 2015), En todas as mans (short, 2015), Secret Images (short, 2013), Tres tiempos, tres gestos (short, 2010), Light Being (short, 2009)
Awards and festivals
Poster
