SIETEFILOS XIICA CMOTOMANOJ – SEVEN RIDGES
Antonio Coello | Mexico, Colombia, USA, Norway 2022 | 75 Min. | Seri, Spanish with Engl. subtitles
FRIDAY, 05.05. | 7:30pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian Premiere
Following old traditions, the grandmother asks her granddaughter Margarita to prepare for her initiation into adult life. But the old values have long since succumbed to pressure from outside influences: Water shortages, modern consumer goods and drugs shape the lives of the younger generation. While her older sister loses herself in drug use, Margarita is still searching for her own way.
SIETEFILOS XIICA CMOTOMANOJ, both ethnofiction and rocking coming of age musical, is the first feature film produced in the Seri language Cmiique Iitom. With it, visual anthropologist Antonio Coello contributes to the ongoing process of revitalizing Seri indigenous culture and language.
Director: Antonio Coello
Camera: Andrés Pineda L., Benjamín Cabral
Editing: María Calle
Sound: Ernesto Romero, Joel Arguelles, Cecilia Araujo, Antonio Coello
Production: Antonio Coello
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AWARDS
Award of recognition at Ethno Kino 2022, Bern, Switzerland.
Best Original Screenplay at aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada, October, 2022.
Best International Narrative Feature (monthly winner) at Druk International Film Festival, Paro, Bhutan, September, 2022.
Menciones honoríficas/ Honorable Mentions
Honorable Mention in the category best narrative film at Our Heritage Our Planet Film Week 2022. U.S.A., October, 2022.
SCREENINGS
Festival de Cine Latinoamericano en Lenguas Originarias, Cusco, Perú. March, 2022.
Latino and Native American Film Festival, New Heaven, Conneticut, U.S.A. April-May, 2022.
First Nations Film and Video Festival, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. May, 2022.
Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada. May, 2022.
Maoriland Film Festival, Otaki, Kapiti, New Zealand. June-July, 2022.
Asinabka Flm & Media Arts Festival, Ottawa, Canada. August, 2022.
Sarasota Native American Film Festival, Sarasota, U.S.A. September, 2022.
Druk International Film Festival, Punakha, Bhutan. September, 2022.
aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada. September, 2022.
EthnoKino Film Festival, Bern, Switzerland. September-October, 2022.
Daupará Muestra de Cine y Video Indígena, Bogotá, Colombia. Octubre, 2022
IndiFest Festival de Cinema Indígena de Barcelona, España. Octubre, 2022.
Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Alternativo y Comunitario Ojo al Sancocho, Ciudad Bolívar, Colombia. Octubre, 2022.
2nd Annual Our Heritage Our Planet Film Week, virtual event, USA, October, 2022.
ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada. October, 2022.
Native Spirit Indigenous Film Festival, London, UK. November, 2022.
Red Nation International Film Festival, Los Angeles, U.S.A., November, 2022.
Garífuna International Indigenous Film Festival, Los Angeles, U.S.A., November, 2022.
Black Cat Award International Film Festival, La Paz, Bolivia, November, 2022.
Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno, Salerno, Italy. November, 2022.
Boden International Film Festival, Boden, Belgium. November, 2022.
International Folklore Film Festival, Thrissur, India, January, 2023.
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, USA. February, 2023.
Santander Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Bucaramanga, Colombia. February, 2023.
Zagreb International Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia. February, 2023.
BIOGRAPHY
Antonio Coello is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist. His films involve indigenous and afro-descendant communities with which he creates collective cinematic stories that have been shown at various festivals and museums like the New York Guggenheim Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and ImagineNATIVE at Toronto.
