Obāchan
2020•15m•Released
Documentary
Obāchan is Japanese. She left her native archipelago in 1941 to marry one of her compatriots, 17 years older, settled in Mexico. Through fragments of family films, manga and sequences that she has shot, Nicolasa Ruiz sculpts a complex and delicate memory landscape between the two shores of the Pacific.
Director
Nicolasa Ruiz
Writer
Nicolasa Ruiz
Languages
English, Japanese, Spanish
Studio
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Production
Company
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Producer
Paulina Valencia
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