Cicadas

Yuli (38) is the topila (auxiliary police) of San Pablo Begu´, a mountain community in the north of Oaxaca where the inhabitants on a rotating basis assume the responsibilities of self-government on a rotating and honorary basis (communality) along with their work and personal activities. Guarding the entrance to the town, she stops a group of machinery that is trying to enter the community to begin construction of a highway. When she notifies the town, no authority is aware of the project and the community goes on alert; they will have to decide whether or not to accept the highway project and its consequences.

  • Luna Marán
    Director
  • Luna Marán
    Writer
  • Julio López Fernández
    Writer
  • Nicolás Rojas Sánchez
    Writer
  • Rosalinda Dionicio
    Writer
  • Jenny García
    Writer
  • Ernesto Martínez López
    Writer
  • Yuliana Berenice Martínez Andrés
    Writer
  • Luna Marán
    Producer
  • Casandra Casasola
    Producer
  • Erik Baeza
    Producer
  • Pablo Márquez
    Producer
  • Yuliana Berenice Martínez Andrés
    Key Cast
  • Jenny García
    Key Cast
  • Ernesto Martínez López
    Key Cast
  • Uciel Benjamín Santiago Pablo
    Key Cast
  • Obed Santiago
    Key Cast
  • Víctor Robinson
    Key Cast
  • Alejandro Morales Fabián
    Key Cast
  • Edmundo García Hernández
    Key Cast
  • Joaquín Yesmar
    Key Cast
  • Gustabvo López Mendoza
    Key Cast
  • Javi Melendez
    Key Cast
  • Samantha Guadalupe Santiago Reyes
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    CHICHARRAS
  • Project Type:
    Feature, Other
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama, musical, comedy
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 27 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 31, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia
    Morelia
    Mexico
    October 27, 2024
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Luna Marán

Luna Marán is included in the Compendium of Filmmakers organized by the Morelia International Festival (2021). Director of I look so much like you (2011), Tío Yim (2019) “one of the hidden gems of documentary cinema” according to BBC and Bucan tu rachhidu´ FICUNAM, FICM (2023) Special Mention Kanua Festival, Flaherty Seminar Selection 2023.

Producer of The Blue Years (2017), (nominated for best first film” 2018 Ariel Awards),The Revolt (2022), and The end of the first times (2024). Co-producer of Summer (2022) (FICM Special Mention), Ruster Dust (2021) (Best Central American Icaro Festival Edition), Koo (2020), and Through Tola (2023) (TV-UNAM FICUNAM 23 Award).

She works as head writer for the Paramount+ Native Narratives project (2022), and developmental writer for an animated series (NDA) for Panea Media (2022).

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Director Statement

Cicadas is a look at the complexity of coming to agreement in a community, a window on the inner workings of what we have called communality, a way of life that has survived for more than 500 years and that sustains, day by day, one of the oldest forests in Latin America. San Pablo Begu' does not exist but it is performed by the community of Guelatao de Juárez. More than 50 actors debut in a choral scene to discuss a community´s future and allow us to laugh, dream and fall in love with the future we want for our territory.