28 mins / 2025 / HD / DCP English / English and French Subtitles Mexico, France, Sweden
Written, directed and produced by Anna Senno Music, sound design and mix by Cyrus Bayandor Edit and cinematography by Anna Senno
What memory do we choose to forget and can we belong without language? Can home be somewhere without a place? What happens when you realise the dream of home belongs to those who have stopped dreaming? Can you revive the dream?
A road connecting northern and southern Mexico cuts through the small city of Zapotitlán Salinas. A single speed bump, a tope, forces everyone who pass to slow down. Social worlds cross and temporalities overlap. A letter read to home, in dialogue with a poem by Paul Éluard. Punctuated by the silence found behind the hills, the contrasted sequences of people and vehicles merge personal and collective realities into a choreography about time, memory, and belonging.
El Tope is a film and an installation about the sacred and political reality of a dream.
