{"id":10840,"date":"2025-02-27T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/?p=10840"},"modified":"2025-03-24T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:17:46","slug":"sujo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/sujo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sujo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, April 3 at 7:00 pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Astrid Rondero &amp; Fernanda Valadez<\/p>\n<p>2024 Mexico\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 127 minutes<\/p>\n<p>When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind his beloved four-year-old son, Sujo. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father&#8217;s destiny may be inescapable. 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