Ixcanul (2015)

01/20/2015Drama1h 33m
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María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    María Mercedes Coroy

    María

  2. Cast 1

    María Telón

    Juana

  3. Manuel Antún

    Manuel

  4. Justo Lorenzo

    Ignacio

  5. Marvin Coroy

    El Pepe

  6. Fernando Martínez

    Policia

**Between the childhood and adulthood.** The director's feature film debut. From Guatemala, selected to represent the Oscars in the previous year (2016), but did not make. The film was based on the real about a small Mayan family living closer to the active volcano slope working in the coffee plantation. A perfect depiction of hardship of life, but from the perspective of a teenager. The life between adulthood and childhood, and for the lack of the knowledge of the real world, how they are misled was the film's purpose. I liked the film, no question about that. But it did not start like ...

Status Released

Original LanguageSpanish 

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