Something terrible is happening in class 3A at Calmecatl Junior High. No one can leave the classroom until the guilty party is found. This is the device that gives us a glimpse of the ethics, games, esthetics and eroticism of these girl-women. It is not easy to say what the subject is, there are so many: the discovery of sexuality, discrimination, chance, drugs, maternity, traditions, betrayals, power, love. A mural of a complex reality from the point of view of twenty-something women in the skin of 14 to 15 year old girls.
Acting
Twenty-somethings channeling teenage volatility with surgical precision.
Direction
Ríos weaponizes single-location claustrophobia like a Mexican Dogville.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds improvised but cuts like glass.
Director
Guillermo Ríos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a real Mexico City middle school with non-professional students as extras, blurring documentary and fiction.
The title 'Perras' (Bitches) was controversial in Mexico—Ríos reclaimed it as a commentary on how young women are labeled when they seize power.
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