Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.

Director of photography, Ciro Cabello ; editor, Manuel Rodríguez ; music, José Navarro.

Spanish and Nahuatl dialogue; optional English subtitles.

The patron saint celebration in an indigenous community is the setting where a photographer loses his shadow. In a spiritual exchange during a traditional funeral, he will also lose the convictions that keep him tied to his world. In order to recover, he will have to travel an initiatory path along with the inhabitants of the community, sharing a different way of approaching the environment. However, only when he accepts the loss of his shadow will he be able to face the woman who has taken it and succeed in recovering it.

La celebración de la fiesta patronal en una comunidad indigena es el marco donde un fotógrafo pierde su sombra. En un intercambio espiritual durante un funeral tradicional, perderá también las convicciones que lo mantienen atado a su munod. Para recuperarse deberá recorrer un camino iniciat́ico junto con los pobladores de la comunidad, compartiendo un modo distinto de aproximarse al entorno. Sin embargo, sólo cuando acepte la pérdida de su sombra, podrá encarar a la mujer que se la ha tomado, logrando recuperarla. RITO TERMINAL aspira revalorizar aquello que haemos dejado de lado por la simple inercia de someternos incondicionalmente al avance del progreso.

Photographers > Drama.

Funeral rites and ceremonies > Drama.

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