Upside Down Home

Audience Score
70
Upside Down Home
NR 1 hr 20 minDocumentary
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

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad FONCA POLEN CUARTO PROPIO Consejo Nacional para la cultura y las artes Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía