Synopsis
Semillites and Tania, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship, journey through the brown terrain of their own bodies – lands they once rejected. They traverse landscapes of skin, dreams and viscera, crossing into places that pulse with their ancestors’ memory and, along the way, encounter a constellation of flowers, grasshoppers and fossils. Through collage, animation, manifesto, dance and intimacy, the film moves across scales of body and territory, reimagining identity beyond Mexico’s colonial narratives.
Filmmaker
Semillites Hernández Velasco
He is a trans multidisciplinary artist and community cultural worker based in Vancouver, in the non-ceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam nations. His creative fields include film, illustration, and music. His work focuses on imperfection through self-portraiture and fosters collaborative processes with migrant, BIPOC, and queer communities.
Filmography: Our Body Is an Expanding Star (co-directed, 2025, D'A 2026)
Tania Hernández Velasco
She is a filmmaker and film educator. Through intimate, collaborative, and sensory gestures, her cinema reimagines body, territory, and identity, exploring the connections between land and humans. She directs films such as Titixe and Eclipsis, and co-directs Our Body Is an Expanding Star, which have been selected for international festivals such as IDFA, Ann Arbor, Trieste, and many more. She is currently preparing the docufiction Capolcuahuitl.
Filmography: Our Body Is an Expanding Star (co-directed, 2025, D'A 2026), Eclipsis (short, 2022), Titixe (2018)
Awards and festivals
GUADALAJARA FILM FESTIVAL
Poster
