12. – 15. Nov. 2026
BEYOND Festival

It is within the macula, at the back of the eye, that the images are fixed in the retina.
Sonia’s gradual vision loss becomes the filmographic allegory that allows her daughter to make a journey to unveil the events that had been kept in silence until then, and that had eclipsed the primeval memories of her gestation and birth.

Director Biography - Mariana X. Rivera

PhD in Anthropological Sciences, MA in Visual Anthropology, and researcher at the Social and Ethnological Direction from the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
She is the co-founder of Urdimbre Audiovisual where she works as a filmmaker, photographer and editor. She has directed documentaries and video clips, and has published articles on Documentary, Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology, Weaving and Memory.
Her films include Nos pintamos solas (2014) (Murals and Mirrors: Women resisting walls); Mujer. Se va la vida, compañera (2018) (Woman. Life Slips Away, compañera); Flores de la llanura (2021) (Prairie Flowers); and the transmedia narrative Oficios Creativos (2021) (Creative Trades). She coordinates the Seminary in Poetics of Imagination: Experimental Methodologies of Audiovisual Anthropology.

Director Statement

This film inquires within the silences that are kept as a result of tacit pacts, and that have an impact on our personal story.
Film here becomes a form of self-exploration; a tool that both confronts us with and reveals to us the fact that our personal biographies are actually related to collective memory, and the relevance of giving voice, of giving a narrative to ourselves.
This story vindicates the right to our emotional memories from the moment we inhabit our mother’s womb.