
Montevideo, the 90's. Clara is a girl victim of school bullying who was never invited to a birthday party. In the playground, she watches how some classmates are giving birthday cards to several girls and boys… but not to her. But this time something is going to change. A hairdresser makes her a special hairstyle for the occasion and her mother fixes a dress that she could never wear before. Clara wants to know what it feels like to go to a birthday party and she uses imagination and creativity to achieve it.
Status
Released
Original Language
ES

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.