Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
In rural Mexico, local children and their families survive only by virtue of their unrelenting labour. These exceptionally young workers plant and harvest food, weave textiles, shepherd animals, collect wood and care for their siblings as the cycle of poverty passes from one generation to another.
In rural Mexico, local children and their families survive only by virtue of their unrelenting labour. These exceptionally young workers plant and harvest food, weave textiles, shepherd animals, collect wood and care for their siblings as the cycle of poverty passes from one generation to another.
Childhood should be a time of play, but for many, it’s a time of work. Eugenio Polgovsky’s documentary immerses us in the daily grind of life in rural Mexico, showing us the long treks across fields, the hands in soils, and the drawing of sustenance from the harsh and mountainous landscape.