(2023, Mexico, Spain, 117')
An intense road movie toward adulthood for three young individuals seeking revenge on the border between Mexico and the United States. Determined to track down and kill the man responsible for their father’s death in a car accident, two teenage brothers from the Mexican upper class, along with their stepsister, unaware of their intentions, embark on a journey through a wild and harsh landscape. This journey leads them to discover complicity, intimacy, love, but also violence, ferocity, and death.
Mariana and Santiago Arriaga make their feature film debut with a screenplay written by their father, writer, screenwriter, and director Guillermo Arriaga (21 Grams, Babel, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Burning Plain), who questions the legitimacy of the feeling of revenge and the difficulty of overcoming grief and life’s great pains.
Mexican director and producer Mariana Arriaga Armendáriz made her short film debut in 2015 with En defensa propia, which was a candidate for the Orizzonti Award. This was followed by the shorts Libre de Culpa (2017) and B-167-980-098 (2018), made in collaboration with her father and brother, Santiago Arriaga. Together, they founded the production company Memento Mori Films, where they have created music videos, fashion films, commercials, and animations.
Arriaga brothers' feature film debut with Upon Open Sky
