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LETTERS FROM THE LAND OF TARAHUMARA

By Federico CECCHETTI

Second film - Completed 2017

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Second film, Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, MEXICO
- Languages
- FRENCH, SPANISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Federico CECCHETTI
- Writer(s)
- Federico CECCHETTI, Alejandro MENDOZA, Jean-Claude CARRIÈRE
- Producer(s)
- Thierry LENOUVEL (CINE-SUD PROMOTION), Edher CAMPOS (MACHETE PRODUCCIONES)
- Synopsis
- In1936, at the sierra Tarahumara in Mexico, Rayenari is a Young indian who is in his way to become a shaman. His life suddenly changes when he meets a strange poet named Antonin Artaud, who comes from a very distant land. At first the community
  feels threatened by the foreigner, but he slowly gains people’s trust. Antonin confesses to Rayenari that the purpose of his trip to Mexico is to heal his Soul. He participates in a ritual taking a sacred cactus and exorcizing his demons. When Antonin leaves the mountains, Rayenari starts having a lot of nightmares regarding his friend. With the help of an old shaman, Rayenari can perceive that in France, Antonin is recruited in a psychiatric hospital, being coursed by dark sorcerers who perform electroshocks on him. Trough a shamanic process Rayenari visits Antonin in his cell, and with the magic of poetry helps him.