10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

Xavi Sala | Mexico | 2018 | color | DCP | 119′ | Zapotec, Spanish | e.s.

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Xquipi’ Guie’dani is the feature debut by director, screenwriter and producer Xavi Sala. After an award-winning and successful career in short films, the filmmaker tells the story of Guie’dani, a young, indigenous Zapotec (Sótera Cruz) and her mother Lidia (Érika López), who move from their Oaxacan village to take up work with an upper-class family in Mexico City. The young lady doesn’t seem to fit into her new routine, and after meeting Claudia (Majo Alfaroh) – a rebellious girl with whom she becomes close friends – she starts creating trouble for herself and her mother at their new home.

Sala creates a strong portrait of Guie’dani, who fights for dignity and equality in a contemporary Mexican society, while she tries to understand her place in the world. The film touches on themes as identity, classism, and race discrimination, and provokes deep reflections about human behavior in our times.

Place: The Cinemas 6

Date: 11 April 2019

Time: 17:45

Duration: 1:32

Place: The Cinemas 6

Date: 12 April 2019

Time: 13:00

Duration: 1:32

Year in
Festival

2019

Director

Xavi Sala

Camera

Martín Boege
Alberto Anaya Adalid
Ricardo Garfias

Cast

Sótera Cruz

Country

Mexico

Editor

Aldo Álvarez Morales

Language

Zapotec
Spanish

Length

119′

Producer

Xavi Sala

Production Company

Xavi Sala p.c.

Production Design

Xavi Sala p.c.

Sales

Xavi Sala p.c.

Scenario

Xavi Sala

Year of Production

2018

Xavi SALA geboren in Alacant (Catalan Countries) maar genaturaliseerd Mexicaan, voltooide een opleiding journalistiek voordat hij naam maakte als regisseur, scenarist en producent. Hij maakte verschillende korte films die werden vertoond op vele filmfestivals, waaronder Berlijn, San Sebastian en Guadalajara. Het leverde hem talloze prijzen op. Xquipi ‘Guie’dani is zijn eerste speelfilm en won twee prijzen op het Morelia Film Festival in Mexico. 

Filmography

60 años/60 Years Old (2002, short), Maleteros/Trunks (2003, short), Los padres/Parents (2004, short), Hiyab (2006, short), En el instituto/In the High School (2006, short), La parabólica/The Parabolic Disk (2007, short), La autoridad/The Authority (2010, short), El reloj/The Watch 2011, short doc), El nacimiento/The Birth (2012, short), Del vino al Ártico/From the Wine to the Arctic (2014, short doc, co-dir), Xquipi’ Guie’dani/Guie’dani’s Navel (2018)