MOON BELLY

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Duration: 00:29:26
Languaje: Other
Category: Documentary
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Synopsis: In a small place in the Highlands of Chiapas, a Tsotsil girl who will give birth for the first time, invokes the memories of the women who preceded her in order to face this moment. Amidst the fears and uncertainties of giving life, she discovers motherhood from the cosmovision of her world.

Screenings / Awards:
XXXIX Guadalajara International Film Festival Guadalajara June 14, 2024 World & National Premiere Official selection in competition Mexico XX Monterrey International Film Festival Monterrey September 28, 2024 Official Selection in competition Mexico XXII Morelia International Film Festival Morelia October 20, 2024 Official Selection in competition Mexico X Libre Cinema Festival Mérida November 9, 2024 Official Selection in competition Mexico XVII Festival De Cine Documental Mexicano Zanate Colima November 17, 2024 AWARD WINNER: Best Short-Mid-Length Film Mexico XXVI Festival Pantalla de Cristal Mexico City December 10, 2024 AWARDS WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR, BEST NARRATION, BEST PHOTOGRAPHY, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST COLOR CORRECTION Mexico XXXII San Diego Latino Film Festival San Diego March 20, 2025 AWARD WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM United States XX Ambulante Gira de Documentales Mexico City and other States April 3, 2025 Official Selection Mexico XXV Festival Internacional De Cine De Lebu Lebu April 25, 2025 South American Premiere AWARD WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM, Indigenous peoples of the world Chile XV LASA Latin American Studies Association Film Festival San Francisco May 25, 2025 AWARD WINNER: LASA AWARD OF MERIT IN FILM United States Abya Yala Nagô Festival São Paulo June 1, 2025 Official Selection Brazil XV Festival Internacional de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas Lima June 22, 2025 AWARD WINNER: BEST FILM in the category "Women and Territorial Resistance” Peru VIII NAIFF-Nepal America International Film Festival Greenbelt, Maryland June 28, 2025 Official Selection in competition United States XXXV Présence Autochtone/First Peoples Film Festival Montreal August 5, 2025 AWARD WINNER: BEST EMERGING INDIGENOUS ARTIST Canada XIX Muestra Cine+Video Indígena Santiago August 5, 2025 Official Selection Chile XIII Doqumenta Festival Internacional de Cine y Narrativas de No Ficción Querétaro August 8, 2025 AWARD WINNER: BEST SHORT MEXICAN FILM Mexico IX RIFFA - Regina International Film Festival and Awards Regina, Saskatchewan August 19, 2025 Canada XVII International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala August 22, 2025 International section (Out of Competition Section) India XXXI Film Festival della Lessinia Bosco Chiesanuova, Verona August 26, 2025 AWARD WINNER: MICROCOSMO AWARD, awarded by a jury of inmates from the Verona prison. Italy XXI Muestra Internacional de Mujeres en el Cine y la Televisión Mexico City August 27, 2025 Official Selection in Competition Mexico XX Shorts Mexico Mexico City September 1, 2025 Official Selection Mexico XXIII Vancouver Latin American Film Festival Vancouver September 7, 2025 Films From Turtle Island and Beyond selection Canada LXVII ARIEL CEREMONY - Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMACC) Mexico City September 20, 2025 Nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Documentary Short Film Mexico XVIII IndiFest - Festival de Cinema Indígena de Barcelona Barcelona October 9, 2025 AWARD WINNER: Special Mention of the Jury Spain X Hobnobben Film Festival For Wayne, Indiana October 25, 2025 AWARD WINNER: Best Unscripted Short Film United States XXXVII Girona Film Festival Girona November 4, 2025 Official Selection in Competition Spain

Submitter Biography:
Liliana Guadalupe López López, known as Liliana K'an. Daughter of a Tsotsil father and a Tseltal mother in Chiapas, Mexico, she is originally from San Juan Chamula and is a first-time mother. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Intercultural Communication at the Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH). She has training in visual arts from the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas (UNICACH) and has taken workshops in audiovisual production, photography, scriptwriting and editing, among other subjects. In 2014, she made a first documentary exercise, "Ak'riox (Guiadora de caminos)" in the framework of a workshop granted by the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). “Mon Belly” is her first short film, it won the Stimulus for Audiovisual Creation in Mexico and Central America for Indigenous and Afro-descendant Communities (ECAMC) and the FOCINE Fund for postproduction, both awarded by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE).