Kahramanca

Heroico

Heroic

Turkey Premiere

DCP / Renkli Color / 88’

Spanish and Náhuatl With Turkish And English Subtitles

Mexico, 2023

Director
David Zonana

Cast
Santiago Sandoval Carbajal, Fernando Cuautle, Esteban Caicedo, Ricardo Tadeo, Monica Del Carmen, Isabel Yudjce

Awards

2023 Guadalajara International Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize, Best Mexican Film, Best Actor

Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the film draws attention to boarding school life and bullying. Luis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier.