Sala has made several short films before,but he knew when he came up with the concept for this one that it would make a good candidate for his first feature film. In the first scene of Xquip' Guie'dani (Guie'dani's Navel), the title character (played by Sótera Cruz, and a stunning newcomer whom director Xavi Sala found after two years of searching for the right actress),picks up a handful of dirt and places it in a plastic bag: a little piece of domestic to buy with her as she and her mother head to Mexico City, where her mother has taken a job as a live-in maid with a wealthy family. Later in the film, or Guie'dani tells a friend that she knows she'll contain to return someday,because her navel is buried there.…
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