XVI EDITION

Meet the winners

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KINOKI XVI

2021

The sixteenth edition of Kinoki, held in 2021, had the objective of making national and university cinema visible, as well as promoting the edition of the festival to a more varied and broader audience.

This sample had Chile as its guest country, and the winners cycle includes the 6 short films corresponding to the categories of national fiction, international fiction, experimental, national documentary, international documentary and animation.

Lilly <3

Jimena Muhlia

Lily, a 5-year-old Mexican-American girl, is left in the care of her cousin Teo while her mother goes to work for a few days. Together they prepare a party for her Mexican father, who is waiting for his visa to visit her. However, the absence of a father figure is reflected in his dreams, a hole that Teo fills little by little through the trust that he must earn by entering the world of a small woman with her own individuality.

Tania Cattebeke

I see I see

Paraguayan civil war of 1947. Arami, a girl from the Colorado party, has to take care of her little sister Rosita and her grandfather Nenito. The color blue is totally forbidden in your house.
While he has to fight against hunger and thirst, Arami receives help from a boy from the blue party to survive.

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a year in exile

Malaz Usta

The first year of an immigrant in a metropolitan city outside his small country. Through a collection of moving images and sounds, the film showcases what he has to face, the images he sees, the thoughts crowding his head, and the state of emotional shock he experiences throughout the year.

loss of eden

Daniel Tonatiuh Guzman

Communication and the union of peoples helps them to fight in adverse situations. Inhabitants of Lima de Abajo, Punta de Mita and San Pancho have been pushed into oblivion and misery by tourism projects such as Costa Canuva and Punta Paraíso. Theft of land, privatization and corruption, constant problems that the inhabitants have faced: their struggle has been united and peaceful. Even so, some towns slowly disappear, abandonment and oblivion has led them to "The Loss of Eden".