Tragic Jungle (Selva trágica)

  • Selva trágica
Genre : Adventure
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2020
Format : Feature
Running time : 97 (in minutes)

To escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.

Two beautiful women Agnes (20) and Florence (27), are running away from Belize. They enter the jungle, crossing over the Río Hondo that marks the border with Mexico. But their pursuer finds them; only Agnes survives and runs off into the Mexican jungle. Days later, a group of Mexican chicleros (gum workers) find Agnes lying unconscious and they take her to their camp. Her presence produces tension among the men, who have been working in the jungle for eight months. One by one they fall under Agnes's allure, and mysterious fatalities ensue; one chiclero plummets from a zapote tree, one falls sick with malaria, and another is eaten by ants. Only one Mayan chiclero suspects Agnes; according to a Mayan legend, a beautiful woman seduces men in the jungle and then causes their death.

A film by Yulene OLAIZOLA

starring Indira ANDREWIN, Gilberto BARRAZA, Mariano TUN XOOL, Eligio MELÉNDEZ, Lázaro Gabino RODRÍGUEZ

Mexico / France / Colombia, 2020, Feature Narrative, 1h37min, Unencrypted DCP, Color

4th feature

Original Title (Spanish): "Selva trágica:
English Title: "Tragic Jungle"
Genre : Drame
Languages: Spanish, Maya, English, Creole
Countries: Mexico, France, Colombia
Year of production : 2020
Duration: 1 h 36 min


PROGRAM NOTE (Busan FilmFest 2020)
Isolated in the deep Mayan jungles of Mexico, a group of gum tree workers come across a mysterious Belizean woman. Young Agnes was just trying to escape a forced marriage, but her rescuers soon become predators as tensions rise in the lawless jungle where legendary fantasies and sexual desires are ignited. The vibrant green colors of the exotic tropical jungle transform into the perfect setting for female vengeance. This is the fourth feature and most ambitious filmed by director Yulene Olaizola, who brings out powerful performances from natural indigenous actors and borrows the ancient Mayan myth to capture the disastrous clash of civilizations. (Karen PARK)

Producers
Pablo ZIMBRÓN, Rubén IMAZ, Yulene Olaizola

Coproducers:
Birgit Kemner, Philippe Gompel

Director
Yulene OLAIZOLA

Screenplay
Yulene OLAIZOLA, Ruben IMAZ
Inspired by the novel "Caribal: El Infierno Verde" by Mexican novelist-diplomat Rafael Bernal.

Cinematography
Sofía OGGIONI

Sound:
José Miguel Enriquez

Composer (Music):
Alejandro Otaola

Editing:
Rubén Imaz, Yulene Olaizola, Israel Cárdenas & Pablo Chea

Costumes:
Samuel Conde

Production Companies
Malacosa Cine (México)
Varios Lobos (México)
Manny Films
Zoología Fantástica
Barraca
Contravia Films

A Mexican co-production with France and Colombia

Backed by the Cinemas du Monde-CNC, the Cannes Festival's Cinéfondation L'Atelier workshop and the ARRI Support Program.

WORLD SALES:
Varios Lobos
info(@)varioslobos.com

CONTACT
malacosacine(@)gmail.com

Watch "Tragic Jungle"
on Netflix

Filming locations:
The forest/ jungle area near the south of the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico and along the Belizean / Mexican border of the Rio Hondo as well as Chetumal and Bacalar.


FESTIVALS / AWARDS / PRIX

2020 | HIIFF (China, 2020)
* Official Selection

2020 | IFFAM (Macao, 2020)
* Official Selection

2020 | Mar Del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina, 2020)
* Selection: Competition Latino American

2020 | Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico, 2020)
* Sélection : Compétition Prix Mezcal

2020 | Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Germany, 2020)
* Selection: Pushing the Boundaries

2020 | El Gouna Film Festival (Egypte, 2020)
* Out of Competition

2020 | Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) (Austria, 2020)
* Official Selection

2020 | Festival de Biarritz Amérique Latine (Biarritz, France)
* Competition fiction - FBAL 2020
* French Premiere
www.festivaldebiarritz.com/film/selva-tragica/

2020 | 25th BIFF - Busan International Film Festival (Busan, South Korea)
* Selection: World Cinema
* Asian Premiere
www.biff.kr/eng/html/archive/arc_history_2_view.asp?pyear=2020&s1=&page=13&m_idx=49192

2020 | AFI FEST (USA, 2020)
* Selection: World Cinema

2020 | Varsow International Film Festival (Poland, 2020)
* Selection: Free Spirit Competition

2020 | Zurich International Film Festival (Switzerland, 2020)
* Selection: Window to San Sebastian

2020 | Filmfest Hamburg - Hambourg International Film Festival (Germany, 2020)
* Selection: Vitrina

2020 | San Sebastián International Film Festival (Spain, 2020)
* Selection: Horizontes Latinos

2020 | New York Film Festival (NYFF) (USA, 2020)
* Selection: Main Slate

2020 | Mostra de Venise - Venice Film Festival (Venice, Italy)
* Selection: Orizzonti
* Première Mondiale / World Premiere


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En la selva que sirve de frontera entre México y Belice, un grupo de "chicleros" mexicanos (obreros que recogen el látex de los árboles para hacer chicle), cruza en su camino una joven beliceña, cuya presencia provoca tensiones, avivando fantasmas y deseos, y despierta a Xtabay, una vieja leyenda maya que se esconde en el corazón de la selva. La película se parece al lugar donde fue rodada. En la frontera entre dos países (el realismo y lo fantástico), reúne el hombre y la naturaleza, la industria y la mitología, el hombre y la mujer para obligarlos a enfrentarse. Como los "chicleros" lo hacen con la goma de mascar, la película recoge con gran habilidad la tensión sexual, económica y política que surge de estos encuentros, para analizar con una sorprendente calma el desencadenamiento de estas fuerzas primitivas.

Una película por Yulene OLAIZOLA

Mexico / Francia / Colombia, 2020, largometraje de ficción, 96'


Directora: Yulene Olaizola

Guion: Yulene Olaizola et Rubén Imaz

Imagen: Sofía Oggioni

Edición: Rubén Imaz, Yulene Olaizola, Israel Cárdenas y Pablo Chea

Interpretación: Indira Andrewin, Gilberto Barraraza, Mariano Tun Xool

Producción:
Malacosa Cine,
Manny Films,
Zoología Fantástica,
Barraca,
Contravia Films

Contacto
Ventas internacionales : info@varioslobos.com

Source: Festival de Biarritz 2020
www.festivaldebiarritz.com/es/film/selva-tragica/

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