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In a country where indigenous people are increasingly displaced, their land stolen, where students disappear without trace following police arrest, and journalists are murdered at an alarming rate, a courageous new voice emerges. Lupita, a Tsostil Maya massacre survivor, at the forefront of a new movement of indigenous women. If anyone can change the conscience of Mexico, it is Lupita, confronting corrupt militares, mobilizing her pueblo’s resistance, and cultivating a new generation of organized and vocal Maya activists.


The film intimately follows Lupita taking on risks and responsibility to represent her people, weaving her personal narrative into the painful revolutionary history of Mexico. Part lyrical testimony, part vérité storytelling, part tribute to 500 years of indigenous resistance, this film mediates the point-of-view of a brave woman who must balance the demands of motherhood with her high stakes choices to reeducate and restore justice to the world. 

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    21 minutes
  • Language
    Spanish, Tsostil
  • Country
    Mexico, United States
  • Director
    Monica Wise Robles
  • Screenwriter
    Mar Jardiel, Monica Wise Robles
  • Producer
    Eduardo Gutiérrez Pérez, Monica Wise Robles, Morena Pérez Joachin
  • Cinematographer
    Monica Wise Robles, Eduardo Gutiérrez Pérez
  • Editor
    Mar Jardiel
  • Sound Design
    Christian Giraud, Jerónimo Gorráez
  • Music
    Esperanza de Velasco, Josefa de Velasco