18 minutes that'll make you rethink every 'we need to talk' text.
A couple struggles to pass time together because both work for the same company but in different shifts.
Acting
Vital and Ruiz convey entire histories in exhausted silences.
Direction
Penilla finds poetry in cramped Tijuana spaces and missed connections.
Director
Gilberto González Penilla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Tijuana, the film quietly critiques maquiladora economy schedules that fracture working-class families across border manufacturing shifts.
The 18-minute runtime mirrors the couple's actual available time together—form literally follows emotional scarcity.
MX
