• Director(s):

    CASTILLO (CARMEN)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, LES FILMS D'ICI (DOUBLON)

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2009

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET, MOBILE

This documentary is a discovery of the new scenery of Mexican literature. Interviews with : Carlos Fuentes, David Toscana, Elmer Mendoza, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rafael Saavedra, Eduardo Antonio Parra.

Its goal is to project a feeling of not only the richness and vitality of modern Mexican literature, but also its distinctiveness, the universal impact of its problematic and its urgency to grasp. It is done through short stories, the historical novel or the detective story, all of which show the staggering changes of the rhythms of life, landscapes, the codes and forms of love and desire, of identity and memory, of belonging and uprooting. Without neglecting interviews with authors well known and translated in Europe, we also meet younger authors. The focus is on writers from the North, those that live and depict the chaos of the border, its violence, its new legends, and that constitutes the most current and prolific trend of today's Mexican literature.