Buy Me a Gun

Panorama

"A Precocious and Arresting Fable About the Violence of Mexico's Drug Cartels"

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  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Julio Hernández Cordón
  • Mexico, Colombia 2017
  • 84 minutes
  • Spanish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

In a timeless México women disappear, children are frequently abducted, the population is dwindling and the cartels control everything.

Huck (Hernández Cordón originally conceived the project as a futuristic adaptation of “Huckleberry Finn”), a young girl, lives disguised as a boy to hide her gender. She helps her loving dad Rogelio, a tormented addict, to take care of an abandoned baseball camp where the narcos gather to play. With the help of her friends, Huck has to fight to defeat the local capo.


  • Director Julio Hernández Cordón
  • Production Rafael Ley, María José Córdova, Rodrigo S. González, Diana Bustamante, Jorge Forero, Julio Hernández Cordón
  • Script Julio Hernández Cordón
  • Cinematography Nicolás Wong
  • Editing Lenz Mauricio Claure
  • Music Alberto Torres
  • Festivals Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight)
  • Actors Matilde Hernández Guinea, Rogelio Sosa, Sostenes Rojas, Wallace Pereyda
  • Source Films Boutique, Berlin