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Aqu y All English Here and There is a 2012 drama film directed by Antonio Mndez Esparza. The film is about a Mexican immigrant who returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US, and struggles to rebuild his family and follow his dream of starting a band the Copa Kings. The film won the International Critics Week Grand Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

The villagers think this years crop will be bountiful. There is also good work in the growing city of Tlapa an hour away. But the locals are wise to a life of insecurity, and their thoughts are often of family members or opportunities far away, north of the border. While working in the cornfields, Pedro meets and begins to mentor a teenager, Leo, who dreams of the US. Leos love of breakdancing helps him to win over Karla, a studious girl he meets but a folk dancer herself. Their budding first love recalls Pedros and Teresas of a generation before.For Pedro, whether consoling the grieving mother of a friend who died inexplicably over there, or meeting a new nephew being raised by extended family members because his parents have emigrated to the USthat place, the All or There of the title, somehow always feels very present, practically knocking at the door. ........

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