IDFA 2018
Caballerango
Juan Pablo González
Mexico, United States
2018
62 min
World Premiere
Nando, a young horse wrangler in a rural Mexican village, has taken his own life following a disagreement with his father. Caballerango shows the boy’s family members and townspeople as they reckon with the new realities borne out of this inexplicable tragedy. Each account of Nando’s story reveals a different aspect of this rural town, which is deeply affected by modernization. The confrontation between the centuries-old ways of life and the modern-day world seems to be creating serious identity crises among the younger generation.
The story is told in a patient, observational style with methodical shots of the landscape, ranches, and of the two white horses, whom Nando and his father tended to. Those horses, the last to see Nando alive, connect us to an ethereal sensation of almost otherworldly mystical beings.
Credits
Production
Makena Buchanan for Sin Sitio Cine,
Jamie Gonçalves for Sin Sitio Cine,
Ilana Coleman for Sin Sitio Cine,
Juan Pablo González
Makena Buchanan for Sin Sitio Cine,
Jamie Gonçalves for Sin Sitio Cine,
Ilana Coleman for Sin Sitio Cine,
Juan Pablo González
Executive producer
Julio Peguero,
Ana Isabel Fernández de Alba,
Megan Gilbride
Julio Peguero,
Ana Isabel Fernández de Alba,
Megan Gilbride
Cinematography
Editing
Isidore Bethel,
Ilana Coleman,
Sebastián Salfate
Isidore Bethel,
Ilana Coleman,
Sebastián Salfate
Sound Design
Aidan Reynolds
Aidan Reynolds
Screening copy
Sin Sitio Cine
Sin Sitio Cine