Selegna Sol
West Coast Premiere
Co-presented by El Cine
Saturday, April 11, 4:15 p.m. @ 2220 Arts & Archives
Q&A with writer/director Anouk Moyaux, moderated by actress Mariana da Silva
Sunday, April 12, noon @ Vidiots MUBI Microcinema
Q&A with writer/director Anouk Moyaux, moderated by filmmaker Alexandra Simpson
Screenings in the Vidiots MUBI Microcinema are brought to you by Two Parts Flour
Director: Anouk Moyaux
France, 2025, 50 min, DCP
After several years' absence, Gibran, a 37-year-old Mexican-American, returns to Los Angeles with the goal of saving up to purchase land in Tecate, the village where he was born in Mexico. As he organizes his departure, he rediscovers the emotional and historical ties that bind him to the United States.
Among the most beautiful recent films about Los Angeles, French director Anouk Moyaux deftly blends documentary and naturalism to paint a lilting, utopian city-symphony, a slacker portrait of urban sprawl as seen through the eyes of its Mexican residents. With plans to move back to his hometown of Tecate, Gibran spends his long goodbye hanging out with friends, earning extra cash and idling away in the city’s hills and valleys for the last time. With luminous 16mm photography of East L.A., Moyaux’s film is a vibrant outsider’s-view of the immigrant experience told without sentimentality or didacticism, and the rare L.A. movie to let the city speak for itself. -MG
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Prior Screenings: 2025 Cinéma du réel, 2025 Brive Film Festival
Cast & Crew
Producers: Helen Olive
Writer: Anouk Moyaux
Director of Photography: Anouk Moyaux
Composer: Gibran Jimenez Delgado
Editor: Alix Tulipe
Distributor/Sales Agent: Manifest - Andrea