The Shadow of the Palm Trees

Like a postcard, the image of palm trees in Mexico City is the symbol of a withered dream. The death of more than 75% of the capital's palm trees is not circumstantial. Urban landscaping was seduced throughout the world by that tropical Californian paradise, which evoked sun, freedom and a comfortable life; we import a utopia, building appearances and selling status. The dead palm trees (Phoenix canariensis) of our city, victims of globalization, remind us of the failure of a policy of appearances. This short documentary explores the relationship between man and nature in large cities and provides a space that gives voice to the trees that surround us that, with their destruction, ask us, in a last breath, to tell their story to rethink our existence and the spaces we inhabit.

South American premiere

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Documentary

Nacional

Animation

Priscilla Brasil

Direction

Yesenia Novoa Rodriguez, Magali Rocha Donnadieu

Production

Hugo Chavez Carvajal

Editing

Yesenia Novoa Rodríguez

Cinematography

Miriam Ortíz Guzmán

Country of origin

Mexico

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