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Number Eighty

2016 · 23 min

This is a quiet, reflective journey into finding belonging while working on something tangible.

Directed by: Juan Manuel Zuñiga
Genres: Drama
Starring: Fernando Rojas, Guillermo Maciel, Ángeles Cruz

Overview: Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and depressed in the country where he is supposed to belong. While rebuilding an old motorcycle with Don Memo, a retired motorcycle racer, with whom he is forced to work, he will discover where his real home is.

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Directed by: Juan Manuel Zuñiga
Genres: Drama
Starring: Fernando Rojas, Guillermo Maciel, Ángeles Cruz

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
isolation
immigration
loneliness
freedom
Places: countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Juan Manuel Zuñiga
Written by: Juan Manuel Zúñiga
Starring: Fernando Rojas, Guillermo Maciel, Ángeles Cruz, Gustavo Vallejo, Gerardo Taracena, Fernando Rojasbarr
Music: Rodrigo Carrillo
Cinematography: Carlos Correa
Runtime: 23 min
Country: Mexico
Languages: Spanish

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