The 3rd MCLI is dedicated to three films by Mexican directors who narrate, in indigenous languages, the stories of freedom and resilience in the lives of their main characters, all women
Aquínoticias Staff
Canal 22 presents the programming that will be the television headquarters of the 3rd Film Festival in Indigenous Languages (MCLI) organized by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (Imcine), within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032), declared by UNESCO.
During the month of March, the 3rd MCLI is dedicated to three films by Mexican directors who narrate, in indigenous languages, the stories of freedom and resilience in the lives of their main characters, all women. Canal 22 will transmit two of them on monday march 28, from 11:00 p.m.:
we are small
Direction: Fernanda Galindo
(Mexico, 2021)
Short film filmed in Punta Chueca, Sonora, and spoken in Cmiique iitom, Serious language. In it, Zara, a young Seri who sings at the evangelist church in her community, asks her friend Celika to participate in a rap contest. She agrees, but on the night of the concert plans change when Celika decides to follow an urgent drive for freedom.
Plain Flowers
Direction: Mariana X. Rivera
(Mexico, 2022)
Filmed in Suljaá or Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, this short film spoken in ñomndaaAmuzgo language, narrates how, after Silvia’s femicide, her cousin Yecenia, a ñomndaa weaver from the Flores Plain, builds a poetic and ritual duel where the threads, dreams and textile knowledge of women are collectively intertwined in an act of healing and resilience.
On the other hand, Monday April 25, at 10:00 p.m.Channel 22 will broadcast the three films that make up the programming of the 3rd MCLI in April dedicated to children and made up of short films Xáni Xépika (2021) by Dominique Jonard and Yollotl (2020) by Fernando Colín Roque, as well as the feature film Cochochi (2007) directed by Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán.
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