Cristóbal Jasso

Marino Mariano is a musician and fisherman from Collantes, an Afro-Mexican community on the Costa Chica of Oaxaca. Despite being illiterate, he composed more than 46 songs. Now, at 68 years old, he dreams of recording the songs he still remembers. Along the way, Marino meets other musicians, The Authentics, who, like him, seek to leave their musical legacy.

In the Indigenous and Afro Mexican communities of Oaxaca’s Coast, the future is played out in the realms of ritual and politics: water rituals, fishermen’s daily struggles and the constant threat to communities of the Río Verde make life hang in the balance delivered by water’s fate.