PORTRAITS OF MY MOTHER (RETRATOS DE MI MADRE)
Director: Tavo Ruiz
Mexico, 2019
Spanish with English subtitles | 11:11 min 

This is a documentary about my mother and the moment that changed her life. Through her narration, my mother confesses to me what she remembers from the moment she was raped as a child. By painfully recalling this traumatic event, she reflects on the sexual abuse of children and the scars that this leaves in a person’s life.