21 Top Titles from Mexico at Annecy, from Buzzy Competition Title ‘Humo’ to Gems ‘Down to the Bones,’ ‘La Bestia’

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“La Bestia,” (Ram Tamez, 2020) A best student film Annie Award winner and the first Spanish-language film from great Paris animation school Gobelins, co-directed and co-written by Tamez, a Guillermo del Toro Gobelins scholar.

A heartrending gem, set on the roof of La Bestia, a freight train hurtling through Mexico used by emigrants to hitch a fast ride to the U.S., the wrench of emigration caught by a song co-wrote by Tamez.  “Cerulia,” (Sofia Carrillo, 2017) Carrillo’s crowning stop-motion triumph to date, the tale of a little girl in her grandparents’ house who revisits it years later when they are deceased and the house up for sale.

Sluiced by nostalgia and surreal touches, a near tactile paean to Carrillo’s own childhood and a world of pets and animals supposedly dead and gone which lives on in the director and now in the film.

A Guadalajara and Morelia best animated short winner. “Dalia Sigue Aquí,” (Nuria Menchaca, 2019) Set against flashing screenshots of newspapers articles, the heartrending tale of Dalia, a little girl killed by soldiers, and whose spirit, accompanied by her pet chicken, watches her father dedicate the rest of his life looking for her body.