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Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: dying to generate life.

Mauricio Sáenz (b. 1977, Matamoros, Mexico) is a filmmaker with an experimental praxis that blends fictional elements into a predominantly ethnographic approach. His work exposes counter narratives of resistance to history and the established order permeated with elements that range from performance art, poetics, and a strong visual component within an auteur context. Selected festivals include International Film Festival Rotterdam, AFI Fest, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, and Rencontres Internationales, among others. He received an honorable mention in the experimental shorts category in Slamdance in 2020, a nomination for the Dialogue award in the European Media Art Festival in 2017 and was also nominated for the LOOP Discover award in Barcelona that same year.