Back to the Sea of my Deseaced

Goes to Cannes

Back to the Sea of my Deseaced

Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Esteban García Garzón

Produced by: Ivette Liang (Galaxia 311), Marco Antonio Salgado (Cinema226)

Country of production: México, Colombia

Original title: Regreso al Mar de mis Muertos

Genre: Feature film

Language: Español

Runtime: 75min

Completed in: 2022

Chico (11) lives with Ismelda (71), his Wayúu grandmother, by a sidewalk in the Colombian Guajira. A couple of years after Sara’s death, Chico’s mother, he begins to dream of his indigenous ancestors who ask him to go back to his mother’s bones in Jepirra, the sacred place of the Wayúu.