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Estrada Cárdenas, Alba Sovietina

She studied Hispanic language and literature at the Michoacán University of Saint Nicolás of Hidalgo (UMICH), Morelia, and received a master’s degree in cultural studies with a specialty in film from the Paul-Valéry Montpellier III University, France, and a master’s in screenwriting and directing from the Mexican Institute of Film and Humanistic Research (IMICH, in Spanish), Morelia. She won the Student Merit Award from the Morelia city government in 2010. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI, in Spanish) of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), Mexico. She participated in the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and the 9th International Festival of Poor Cinema of Gibara, Cuba, with her documentary Aquí en mi tierra: La memoria y la palabra (2011), co-directed with Lucio Pedro Estrada Cárdenas. In the same edition of FICM, she competed with her animated short film SER O NO ser (2011).

Other Movies

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More

Lives on the Border

Vidas en la orilla
Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More

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Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More

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