Playing Maruata

Adam Selo | 2009 | Italia | 52’

Maru, Michoacán, México. On the eve of the important feast of the Virgen of Guadalupe, the nahua indigenous community is told that a film crew is setting up some art workshops with local schools. The prolonged contact between the natives and foreigners bring to light stories, desires, needs and hopes of an indigenous community of the third millennium, where sun and sea backdrop of what may be heaven for some, hell for others...