When I Shut My Eyes

The isolation of Adela and Marcelino is common among many inmates processed without an interpreter in their native language before the Mexican justice system. Through their subjective experience, the dreams and memories they preserve of their lands in prison, they express in two voices the disorientation and the need to resist against exclusion by telling their story.

Production Companies

Cine Colmena

Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad

bambú|audiovisual

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes