
"We ate dirt and found the truth." The phrase lands somewhere between confession and spell, half-dare and half-revelation. It is how Latina actress Lilith Curiel, the 19-year-old lead of Cometierra (Unburied in English), describes what it felt like to embody a teenager who literally consumes soil to hear the voices of the missing. Around her, her co-stars nod. Every one of them, it seems, has tasted a little of that same earth.