Cine Nepantla To Draw Attention To Mexican Horror

A cinema with movie tickets and popcorn.

The term ‘nepantla’ refers to a condition of living between multiple cultures. Its origin from the 16th century, Nahuatl was used to define the way in which Aztec tribes felt torn between the Spanish’s and their culture in the colonization period. However, nowadays, the word means much more as it represents a positive blend of ideas, viewpoints, identities, and beliefs. Inspired by that exchange, the Cine Nepantla event celebrates liminal states of being and space in film. The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles’s Cine Nepantla is an annual event.

For the 2021 edition of it, the LACLA announced that it would do the event in a virtual form, with a horror mockumentary entitled FERAL from Andrés Kaiser. This filmmaker’s directorial venture set in Mexico’s Oaxacan mountains entails found footage-type interviews and video diaries that detail horrific incidents involving a therapist or priest and his ‘feral’ patients. The movie is slated for a screening on the LACLA website in March 2021’s last week.