DIRECTORS:
Sergio Blanco y Michelle Ibaven
CYCLE: Anger and Healing
TITLE: CUANDO CIERRO LOS OJOS
DURATION: 63 MIN
Sergio Blanco a graduate in Audiovisual Communication, specializing in Documentary Film Directing and Screenwriting from the Madrid Film Institute, is the director of the short film La palabra justa (2018), included in the New York Times Op-docs series. Cuando cierro los ojos (2019) is his first feature documentary.
Michelle Ibaven Michelle Ibaven holds a degree in Communication Sciences, specializing in Audiovisual Production from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. She holds a Diploma in Documentary Film Directing and Screenwriting and in Digital Cinematography from the Instituto del Cine de Madrid. In 2012, she finished No hay lugar lejano, her first feature documentary, receiving, among other awards, Best Documentary by a Woman at the Morelia International Film Festival. Her second feature documentary, Cuando cierro los ojos, has been honored as Best Documentary by Cinelatino, Rencontres de Toulouse and Montreal International First Peoples Festival, as well as the José Rovirosa Documentary Film Award in 2019.
Synopsis
Adela and Marcelino share a common isolation among many speakers of an indigenous language, processed without an interpreter by the Mexican justice system. Through the dreams and memories they keep of their land and their people in prison, they express in two voices the disorientation and the need to resist exclusion by telling their story.
