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Levantamuertos: Cumbia for the Dead

Levantamuertos: Cumbia for the Dead

Levantamuertos

Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce | Mexico | 2025 | 19' |

| IFFR 2025

Chuy, a corrupt embalmer, has a supernatural gift. In his esoteric relationships with those souls who are no more here, he re-encounters Kevin, an old buddy illuminated by religious phraseology who will lead him on a wild personal transformation path. José Eduardo Castilla Ponce, following the Mexican tradition of combining death and festivity, drives us on a burlesque road movie between zombies and cumbia, between the earthly and the afterlife.

– Miquel Martí Freixas

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