Alma & Esperanza

Alma is a 9-year-old girl who lives in urban USA, but when she loses her mother, she has to travel to the home of her grandmother Esperanza in an indigenous village in the Mexican mountains.

17 min | Identity | 2012

Synopsis

Alma is a 9-year-old girl who lives in urban USA, but when she loses her mother, she has to travel to the home of her grandmother Esperanza in an indigenous village in the Mexican mountains. The girl and her grandmother had never met before and do not even share the same language. Yet they are able to wordlessly connect and help each other.

Artistic and technic data

Year: 2012
Duration: 17 min
Direction: Itandehui Jansen
Production: Lista Calista Films
Indigenous peoples: Mixteco
Geographic area: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Subject: Identity
Genre(s): Fiction