Iku Manieva

Two children take refuge from violence in the mountains of Sinaloa, Mexico. ‘Iku Manieva’ is a short documentary filmed in the Sinaloa sierra, a mythical territory in Northwest Mexico historically controlled by the drug cartels and whose violent dispute has transformed entire communities into ghost towns. Narrated through the hopeful look of two children from the Sinaloa highlands -where the film unfolds- the story takes us into an idyllic landscape wrapped in a rare atmosphere of peace that constrasts deepply with the threatening presence of the narcos. A conflict that has spread over time generating countless deaths and human rights violations suffered by the inhabitants in different rural áreas of the State, registering 1,800 displaced families and 3,000 exiled people between the years 2012 and 2018.

Year

2017

Director

Isaac Ruiz Gastélum

Duration

7 min

Country

Mexico

Language

Spanish