Movies: Alejandra Islas

Documentary that focuses on the story of journalist Lydia Cacho, in which her fight against the network of pedophiles she has revealed is discussed. The film follows the difficult process followed to confront the powerful businessmen and politicians ...

Based on Diary of a Mutilated Mother by Esther Hernández Palacios, a grieving mother and academic whose 26-year-old daughter Irene was murdered in Veracruz. Through her diary, Esther transforms her pain into a powerful testimony of survival, reflecti...

Across from the railroad tracks, priest Alejandro Solalinde founds and builds a shelter in Ixtepec, Oaxaca to provide refuge and spiritual relief to Central American migrants. Solalinde ́s struggle is interwoven with the changing lives of women and m...

Shows the lives of a group of homosexuals in Juchitán, a part of the isthmus of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, who defend their right to be different through transgressions, ethnic identity and the pleasure of celebrating life intensely. A community tha...

Get to know the work of some women who were part of the first generations of one of the most important filmmaking schools in the world....

What can thousands of electric energy workers do after being laid off from one day to the other? 16,599 workers reinvent themselves in order to resist, to go back to their jobs and also avoid that electric energy in Mexico be privatized. Four years o...

Chapter 16 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico from 1975 to 1979. Overview of the first years of the government of Jose Lopez Portillo. At the beginning of h...