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January the 28th
Dir. César Uriarte
Un día 28 de enero | 2025 | Mexico | 70 min.
Synopsis
Fabiola, Josue and Francisco are 11 years old and live in Culiacan, Sinaloa. They share economic problems, family absences and classrooms in an elementary school. It is there, in 2016, where they meet César, who teaches them a film workshop and makes a short film. During the workshop, each of the children exposes their fears, insecurities and their relationship with the endemic violence they experience in the city. Six years later they meet again to tell a story that shows the normalization of violence in their lives.
Premiere
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January 28th, 2027
Film credits
Directed by
César Uriarte
Executive producers
Eduardo Venado
Cinematography
Miguel Zetina
Edited by
Kryhzal Olalde Dávila
Sound
Cecilia Araujo
Alfredo Garrido
Sound designer
Jacobo Martínez Ordóñez
Music composer
Luis Carlos González Barrantes
Articles
- IMCINE - "‘January the 28th,’ by César Uriarte: Growing Up Amid Cinema and Violence"
- RIODOCE - "‘January the 28th,’ the Filmed Memory of a Childhood Marked by Violence"
- REVISTA ESPEJO - "The documentary, filmed in Culiacán, portrays how violence and narco-culture shape the childhoods and adolescence of young people in the capital of Sinaloa."
- NOROESTE - "Through the eyes of three 11-year-old boys who reunite six years later, the Sinaloa filmmaker explores how endemic violence has become part of their lives and their fear of being drawn into that environment."
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