Tragic Jungle was my final film of NYFF58 and it was a fun one to end on. Yulene Olaizola's 5th feature takes place in the 1920's on the border between Belize and Mexico. There, a woman named Agnes and her sister (who is a nurse), have escaped an English landowner whom she is supposed to marry. Both are shot by their pursuers, but Agnes is found by a group of gum farmers (who climb trees and tap them to collect their milky sap and then boil and form into blocks of gum). As the only woman in the group, she is immediately in peril, though one of the leaders of the group forbids any man from touching her.