dir: Rigoberto Perezcano
pro: Edgar San Juan
sc: Edgar San Juan, Rigoberto Pérezcano
ph: Alejandro Cantú
mus: Ruy García
ed: Miguel Schverdfinger
cast: Harold Torres, Alicia Laguna, Sonia Couoh
dis: Latinofusion

Drawn to the Northland, Andrés, a young farmer from Oaxaca, reaches the Mexico/US border and tries to cross over.  Failing repeatedly, he settles in Tijuana to plot his next attempt.  Between each try, he discovers that this depraved border town, his new adopted home, is quite a troubled one. While biding time there, Andrés not only confronts his dreams and what he has left behind, but also those of the people he has recently befriended: Cata and Ela, women who own a Tijuana convenience store and await their husbands’ return from the north to retrieve them. The perennial plight of Mexican immigrants attempting to cross the U.S. border receives a fresh look by Mexican filmmaker Rigoberto Perezcano, who presents an honest, non-exploitative take on a young man’s failed crossings and the life and new “family” he creates in Tijuana in between them.  Perezcano’s debut feature, ”Norteado”  (“Northless”) has won several awards at prominent film festivals and was nominated for 10 Ariel Awards (the Mexican version of the Oscar) including for Best Film, Director, Actor and Actress.

Northless / Norteado, (MX-ES) 2009 colour 94 min.

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