The Incredible Summer of Jesús

Saturday 25. 1. 2025.
16:00 – The Damned Yard Theatre

Jesus, a lonely elderly, discovers that his brother, whom he hasn’t seen in twenty years, is sick and nearing death. To make amends for the mistakes of his past, he will have to initiate an adventure against Mexican bureaucracy.

Director: Sebastián Díaz Barriga
Screenplay: Sebastián Díaz Barriga
Director of Photography: Dan Escárraga
Film Editing: Daniel Carrera Pasternac
Film School: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C.
Producer: Mariana A. Erdmann
Cast: Jesús González, Gabriela Ruiz, Renata Millet, Mónica Jiménez, José Peguero
Duration: 16’27’’
Mexico, 2024

About Director

Sebastian Diaz Barriga

Sebastian Diaz Barriga (CDMX, June 1998), author of the book Un rezo para mi padre (Herring Publishers, 2018), translated and published in English in 2020 by the same publishing house (A prayer for my father). Winner of the National Youth Poetry Prize UNAM-SECTEI 2021 with the book Nada del otro mundo (UNAM, 2022). Translator of the poetry book by the American writer Richard Brautigan Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork, into Spanish, (Kriller 71, Spain, 2023 and Zindo Gafuri, Argentina, 2023). Currently he is part of the Scholarship for Young Creators program in the area of poetry (2024). He is studying his eighth semester of his bachelor’s degree in cinematography at CCC.