Cometa 1600 – dir. Alejandra Díaz Olvera

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Original Film Title: Cometa 1600

Director’s Name: Alejandra Díaz Olvera

Writer’s Name: Alejandra Díaz Olvera

Producer: Alejandra Díaz Olvera, Norma Alicia Olvera Herber

Country of Origin: Mexico

Country of Filming: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 2 hours 18 minutes 30 seconds

Film Description:

In 2026, fugitive journalist Emilio Borges tells the story of Cometa 1600, a group of scientists dedicated to studying the consequences of environmental degradation on our mental health and who were forcibly disappeared due to their environmental activism. Through a device called the Kaleidoscopic Camera, they discovered that human dreams depend on Monarch butterfly migrations, which are threatened by ecological damage. These scientists have solutions and Emilio is the only one who can share them.