Dir. Semillites Hernández Velasco & Tania Hernández Velasco
Mexico
2025
”There is no cinema more challenging than that which advocates for taking responsibility for our own bodies… in this sense, Our Body Is an Expanding Star, is emblematic.”
Ernesto Diezmartínez, Letras Libres
Semillites and Tania, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship, journey through the brown terrain of their own bodies – lands they once rejected. They traverse landscapes of skin, dreams and viscera, crossing into places that pulse with their ancestors’ memory and, along the way, encounter a constellation of flowers, grasshoppers and fossils. Through collage, animation, manifesto, dance and intimacy, the film moves across scales of body and territory, reimagining identity beyond Mexico’s colonial narratives.
- World Premiere, IDFA Amsterdam 2025
- Winner, Best Film, Guanajuato Film Festival 2026
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