A mother stares at her wounds until they stare back.
A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director delves into the wounds of his own family.
Acting
Marta Aura carries decades of unspoken pain in every silence.
Direction
Rojo Aura weaponizes autobiography without exploitation.
Writing
Dialogue so spare it feels excavated, not written.
Director
Rubén Rojo Aura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rojo Aura reportedly developed this over years of recorded conversations with his mother, blurring documentary and fiction until neither term fits.
Part of a wave of Mexican auteur cinema confronting machismo through matriarchal lens—less scream, more silence.
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