Cochochi

Cochochi (2007)

Two young indigenous brothers from the La Sierra Tarahumara region of northwest Mexico return home from Benito Juarez elementary boarding school, only to find their fates pulling them in opposite directions in director Laura Amelia Guzmán's dramatic meditation on the value of culture and the cost of progress.

Date of release
2007-04-24
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 27m
Director
Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán

Interesting facts

Cochochi is a Mexican drama film, directed by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas and released in 2007. Set among the Rarámuri people of northwest Mexico, the film stars Antonio Lerma Batista and Evaristo Lerma Batista as two young brothers who are sent by their grandfather to bring medicine to a relative in another town, but get lost after taking a wrong turn en route; they then lose the horse they are riding and themselves become separated, and must figure out how to reunite and get back to safety.

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