Intimate Battles

Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her family, and the helplessness of being imprisoned in a foreign country make Rosa’s story an example of the hard life of Mexican migrants in the United States.

Mexican feature film

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.

In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

An allegory about the kidnapping of 43 male students in Iguala, Mexico which took place in September 2014: "They buried us, but they didn't know we were seeds."

20 years after "Mi vida dentro," filmmaker Lucía Gajá revisits Rosa Estela Olvera Jiménez's case, a Mexican migrant accused of killing a minor. The sequel shows how her family and social groups helped restore her unjustly taken freedom.