Canoa: A Shameful Memory
– A group of students take a bus to go to a small town, in order to finish a professional practice. Al..
A group of students take a bus to go to a small town, in order to finish a professional practice. All of them are friends, and they decide to sing some modern songs, while the other passengers are trying to sleep. One of the passengers gets angry and shouts "stop rowing", so they shut up. But when they arrive in the town, and after knowing the incident, everybody treats them as if they were criminals.
04 Mar 1976
Spanish, Nahuatl
Felipe Cazals
Tomás Pérez Turrent (screenplay)
Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on true facts occurred in the town of Canoa in 1968.
2 wins & 2 nominations.