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jaripeo
directed by Efraín Mojica & Rebecca Zweig
Mexico, USA, France / 75 Mins / Spanish, English
Logline:
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
Synopsis:
A modern portrait of queer life surviving beneath Mexico’s most masculine ritual. Jaripeo uses director’s lens to blend memory and verité. It follows two rancheros to explore desire, masculinity, and identity in a world built to exclude them.
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Efraín Mojica is a Michoacán-born artist based in Mexico City. Their multidisciplinary work, shown from Berlin to Mexico City, explores light, sound, and matter through a conceptual art lens. Video art is central to their practice. Jaripeo is their first feature film.
Rebecca Zweig is a Mexico City-based filmmaker and writer. Her work appears in The New York Times and The Nation, with support from Sundance and Chicken & Egg Pictures. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her filmmaking is shaped by her poetic practice. Jaripeo is her first feature film.
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Year: 2026
Country: Mexico, US, UK
Length: 75 mins
Director: Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig
Producer: Sarah Strunin
Executive Producer: Carrie Lozano, Lizzie Gillett, Ian Bonhôte
Co-Producer: Carine Chichkowsky, Gerardo Guerra, Juan Pablo Gonzalez
Editor: Analía Goethals
Cinematographer: Josué Eber Morales, Gerardo Guerra
Composer: Emilia Ezeta, Marton Radics
Sound Designer: Maria Rojas
Efraín Mojica
Rebecca Zweig
