Completed - SPANISH - Drama, Art - Culture, Fantasy - 92 minutes
By selling some handcrafts and its fascinating legend, an indigenous kid and his grandfather travel to the city trying to improve their lives, the idols and legend get to the hands of a businessman who gets rich off them. Time after he meets the artisans again now as beggars.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Arturo SANCHEZ DEL VILLAR Writer(s) : Arturo SANCHEZ Cast : Ricardo DÍAZ MENDOZA, Gerardo MARTÍNEZ, David JIMÉNEZ, Siouzana MELIKIAN, José PESCINA, Gabriela CARTOL Producer(s) : Arturo SANCHEZ (Ideas prendidas)
Chano is a kid from a remote indigenous community in the mountains of México, he has the responsibility to walk for hours to take to the Sunday street market the idols of the “Tecuanes” that are handcrafted by Cenobio, his grandfather. The old sick man Cenobio shared with Chano the legend and the ancestral tradition of the Tecuanes “Cuilli and Macuilli”. Days later Chano sells the idols to a couple of tourists and by using the argument that the legend is interesting, the tourists suggest Chano to go to sell the idols to the city making him believe that he will improve his life conditions.Chano convinces Cenobio to go to the city leaving behind his mother and brother. In the meantime the idols and their story are given, stolen and used by different owners to achieve their purposes, ambitions and needs. Chano and Cenobio arrive to the city with great ingenuity, ignored by the inhabitants of the large city. They establish in the outskirts areas, working as labourers and loaders at the street market of TepitoThe idols and legend change from different owners until they are registered by an important foreign film director that usurped the Legend of “Cuilli and Macuilli”Months later he takes the legend to theaters, getting a great acceptance and commercial success.When the director and his girlfriend are leaving the film festival they bump into a couple of beggars, Chano offers him the idols of “Cuilli and Macuilli” to the couple.Meanwhile Cenobio is sick and dying , he is waiting and sitting on the sidewalk across de street.Chano, the original heir of the tradition of the tecuanes faces the usurper, understanding his life mission, his essence and his origin.Chano reecounters with his roots acquiring the identity of the Jaguar and like the legend of “Cuilli and Macuilli” he will have to make a sacrifice for the renewal of abundance.During the development of the story, the legend of “Cuilli and Macuilli” is told by different characters that have the idols in their power, with the personal vision of each one. On this journey many rites and traditions from Guerrero are recreated. Such as the “Fight of the Tiger” in Chilpancingo, The Tigrada in Chilapa, The Rain Request in Zitlala and the processions of the Holy week in Taxco, Mexico.
Country(ies) : MEXICO