In anticipation of its world premiere this week in the Orizzonti competition at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival, the Mexican film Tragic Jungle / Selva trágica, has unveiled its official poster and a first teaser. Starring Indira Rubie Adrewin, Gilberto Barraza, Dale Carley, Eligio Meléndez, Gabino Rodríguez, Gildon Roland, and Mariano Tun Xool, the fifth feature film by director Yulene Olaizola will have its North American premiere in the main slate at the 58th edition of the New York Film Festival in early October.
Set in 1920 in the border between Mexico and Belize, deep in the Mayan rainforest, a lawless territory where myths abound, the fifth feature film by director Yulene Olaizola’s follows a group of Mexican gum workers who cross paths with Agnes, a beautiful and mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence incites tension among the men, arousing their fantasies and desires. Filled with new vigor, they face their destiny, without knowing that they have woken up Xtabay, a legendary being that lurks in the heart of the rainforest.
Watch the teaser (via Cineuropa):
