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 a community who have stopped dreaming? Can you revive the dream?
From daybreak into the night, punctuated by the silence found behind the hills, Swedish-French auteur Anna Senno lends her voice to portray the traffic of a lone tope, a speed bump, on a narrow highway in the cactus desert of Zapotitlán Salinas, Puebla, Mexico.
A letter to home and the contrasted sequences of people and vehicles, all slowing down to cross this tope, merge personal and collective realities into a choreography about time, memory, and belonging. We enter the trajectory of a world unraveling.
El Tope is a film and an installation about the sacred and political reality of a dream.
