GÜEROS - Official US Trailer
Winner of the Best First Feature award at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival, as well as the Best Cinematography award (given to DP Damian Garcia) at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, GÜEROS was recently nominated to 12 Ariel Awards (Mexico’s top film award).
This “wry, visually audacious film” (Filmmaker Magazine) is set in 1999, when a year-long university strike both engaged and set adrift thousands of students in Mexico City. Left on their own devices, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonardo Ortizgris) begin to look for strange ways to kill time.
The unexpected arrival of Tomás (Sebastián Aguirre), Sombra’s kid brother, pushes the trio into a road trip in search of Epigmenio Cruz, a Mexican folk-rock hero who “made Bob Dylan cry.” Eventually, the beautiful pirate radio DJ Ana (Ilse Salas), who is also one of the leaders of the student strike, joins them on their trip through Mexico City.
Beautifully shot in black-and-white (and in 4:3 aspect ratio), this coming-of-age comedy pays homage to the French New Wave (the director names Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Black Top and Godard’s Bande A Part as key works) and American indie cinema (such as works by Jim Jarmusch), proving once again, the global reach of contemporary Mexican cinema.
