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Emerging Filmmaker Competition - Winner
For its inventive narrative structure and its imaginative, interwoven dramas of three fearless women, the Jury gives the Emerging Filmmaker Award to Nudo Mixteco, Angeles Cruz (Mexico)
Three stories become tied in a knot during the patron saint’s celebrations in San Mateo, a town in Oaxaca’s Mixteca region. Ángeles Cruz’s searing examination of sexuality in the face of masculinity in this Indigenous town is also a compassionate portrait of people in love, in danger, and in grief.
Maria has just buried her mother and, returning to her childhood home, is rejected by her father. In her grief and confusion, turns to her childhood lover, Piedad, and asks her to leave together. Esteban returns to San Mateo after three years absence to discover his wife, in her loneliness, has found another man. Sexually abused as a child, Toña relives her pain when she discovers her own daughter’s trauma at the hands of her uncle. All three stories unwind over the course of a weekend, and the inhabitants will be forever changed.
Director Biography
Born in Tlaxiaco, Mexico in 1969, Ángeles Cruz has had a long career as an acclaimed actress, before turning to directing in 2012. She is the director of the short films “The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness (La tiricia o cómo curar la tristeza)” (2012), “La carta” (2016) and “Arcángel” (2018). Nudo Mixteca (2020) is her debut feature.
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