Kuxlejal
40 mins
"Kuxlejal" means "Life" in the Tsotsil language, and Life and how to feel alive so as not to die, is the subject of this documentary that for the first time makes visible and thematizes the high rates of suicide among the youth of the native peoples. It is they who tell us in the first person their stories that unfold in a violently complex environment. The center of the film is the search for its own identity between its ancestral roots and the desire and need to be part of globalized modernity.
Gilberto Díaz Gómez
Conejo
Juan Hernández Gómez
Primo
Elke Franke
Director
Juan Antonio Méndez Rodríguez
Director of Photography
Ulises Soto
Screenstory
Humberto Gómez Pérez
Producer
Elke Franke
Editor
Humberto Gómez Pérez
Sound Recordist
Elke Franke
Sound Recordist
Jesús A. Reyes
Post Production Coordinator