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Film Info

Germany 2023 | 90 min. Director: Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda, Ginan Seidl
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Production Company

ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR
Rosenstraße 11
06114 Halle (Saale) https://www.rosenpictures.com/

Categories

Documentary

BRUISES

Synopsis

A sensory film from the twilight between two worlds. In a village on Mexico’s southern coast, a small community lives in a complex, spiritual bond with nature’s animals.

A human being is born with a spiritual attachment to one of nature’s animals – a ‘tono’ – in a lifelong bond. Where once a tono protected its human counterpart, they have increasingly become a risk due to the destructive encroachment on their natural territories. ‘Bruises’ is a hypnotic and immersive film from the animist belief system and practices of a small community in Costa Chica on Mexico’s southern east coast, where Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda and Ginan Seidl meet four people and their tonos: a female fisherman, a healer, a farmer and a 97-year-old midwife who roams the night in the shape of a jaguar. Nature is threatened, but its immaterial powers are unchanged. Rather than a journey into the twilight between two worlds, BRUISES / MORETONES is a film that is present in the reality that surrounds the people and animals of this small community. Through a sensory, but always lucid cinematography, we sense the contours of relationships beyond ourselves. [CPH:DOX]

Cast & Crew

Festivals/awards

2023
Seal of Approval ‘highly recommended’
CPH:DOX Denmark
2024
11 dokKa Karlsruhe, Germany

Production Company

ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR
Rosenstraße 11
06114 Halle (Saale) https://www.rosenpictures.com/

Cast & Crew

Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda, Ginan Seidl
 Stephan Helmut Beier, Ray Peter Maletzki, Ginan Seidl, Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda
 Ginan Seidl
 Ginan Seidl, Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda
 Pamela Casasa 
 Steffen Martin
 Moritz Peters (Digital Images GmbH Halle)
 Markus Böhm (Sound Mixing – Celluloidtracks GmbH)

Categories

Documentary
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