Michel Lipkes

EXTRANO PERO VERDADERO

Mexico, 2017, 90′

STRANGE BUT TRUE
A waste truck roams the streets of Mexico. Aboard are four individuals: the ‘Maestro’, the sinister and brutal team leader, an old mute man, and two kids, Jonathan and Yesi, who do everything in their power to conceal their love story from their boss. Everyday, they clean the city’s streets together. Until the day they come across a cadaver…

Michel Lipkes
He studied at the Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica in Mexico, where he’s now a teacher. He directed his first feature film MALAVENTURA in 2011. It was selected at Rotterdam and then at about thirty international film festivals. Lipkes is a co-founder of the Axolote Ciné society.