Olivia Carrion

Virikuta is an astonishing documentary where we will have the opportunity to accompany a group of Huichol Indians in their annual pilgrimage to Virukuta hunting ritual peyote cactus that ingestion causes hallucinogenic effects. Before our eyes see a millennial pilgrimage, will accompany men, women and children in a community in its journey. The Huichol are a traditional people, who have a mature relationship with the natural elements that lead to ecstasy. This is a touching ritual, one of the live testimony deeper meaning in indigenous Mexican tradition

Testimony of three Mexican women, Maria Teresa, Esperanza and Luz Maria. Each talks about their jobs, their personal and family relationships, their lack of freedom and the role of women in society in the 1970s.

This film portrays the dead day festival in Alahualtitla, Chicontepec Township in the state of Veracruz, and highlights the dependence of small communities of the town merchants and lenders, who allow the financing of these traditional festivals.

The market town of Tlaxiaco dresses in multicolors when its inhabitants gather to sell their merchandise and thus obtain a resource to subsist.