Café (Cantos de Humo)

Coffee (Chants of Smoke)
2014

Jorge is a young indigenous Mexican and about to become the first lawyer representing the people from his own region. His 16 years old sister is pregnant and has to decide whether to keep the child or to continue attending school. While cleaning and roasting coffee beans the family members discuss their everyday troubles. A family portrait built on an intimate and contemplative gaze. (Festival information)

Immersion into the daily life of a Nahua family, rich of human values and desires for justice.

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The festival was founded in 1969 by Moritz de Hadeln and his wife Erika and is dedicated to documentaries. Their successors Jean Perret and Gabriele Bussmann in 1995 renamed it "Visions du réel" to indicate the manyfold approach of documentaries to reality. Festival director since 2011 is Luciano Barisone.

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