CinemaOSMovie · 2014 · 1h 20m

Upside Down Home

70%(4)IMDbDocumentary

In an unfair country women work day and night far from home while their children learn to survive between loneliness and emptiness. They grow to become teenagers, locked down in one of many low income neighborhoods made up of identical small houses, outlined by overcrowding and scarcity. Their mothers, mostly workers in transnational factories, go in and out in buses that take them to a work place where they carry out twelve hour shifts two hours away from home, while their children muddle through their upbringing in tiny houses of 40 square meters. In spite of everything, they look for a way to move ahead and chase their illusions. This is a story full of youthful aspirations set in a context of difficulties and shortages.

Directed byItzel Martínez

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 20m
Language
EN
Released
October 18, 2014
Studios
Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de CalidadConsejo Nacional para la Cultura y las ArtesInstituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring

Luis Omar Rodríguez Díaz

Gerardo Ruiz Zerrano

Santos Pérez Varela

Xóchitl Martínez Santiago

Elizabeth Calderón Rivera

Norma Rodríguez

Rafael Moreno

Ebed Basurto

Alberto Rodríguez Díaz

Guillermo Pérez Varela

Creative team
Directed by
Itzel Martínez
Written by
Itzel Martínez

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