Güeros
Presented by Main Street Landing and VTIFF
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Mexico | Drama | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 2014 | 90 min.
Winner Best First Feature, Berlin International Film Festival 2014
Winner Best Cinematography Tribeca Film Festival 2014
Winner Best Picture, Best Director, Best New Work, Best Cinematography, & Best Sound Ariel Awards (Mexico’s equivalent of the Academy Awards)
Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra and Santos have been living in
angst-ridden limbo. Education-less, motionless, purposeless, and unsure of what the strike
will bring, they begin to look for strange ways to kill time. But their idiosyncratic routine is
interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Tomás, Sombra’s kid brother. Unable to fit in
amongst these older slackers, Tomás discovers that unsung Mexican folk-rock hero
Epigmenio Cruz has been hospitalized somewhere in the city. Tomás convinces Sombra and
Santos they must track him down in order to pay their final respects on his deathbed. But what
they thought would be a simple trip to find their childhood idol, soon becomes a voyage of
self-discovery across Mexico City’s invisible frontiers.
