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2002 | Color | 14 min

This documentary addresses life in the city of Tijuana from the perspective of adolescents on the street. Seven underage women tell us their stories and show us an unknown side of this border town.


Country: México
Direction: Martínez del Cañizo; Itzel
Script: Martínez del Cañizo; Itzel
Production: Hernández; Ingrid Juliana
Sound: Al Sajjad; Abderrahman
Music: Al Sajjad; Abderrahman, Menores Adictos en rehabilitación A. C.
Participation year at FICM: 2003

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Upside Down Home

Gerardo, Omar, and Santos are teenagers living in a workingclass community in Tijuana. In addition to their friendship, they share an emptiness at home: their mothers are away all day working in factories. Each of the teens copes with monotony, loneliness, and the desire to be noticed. This is a story about reality and the hopes of youth in a context of difficulties and scarcity, a place where dreams have unexpected endings 

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