Directed by Sarah Minter • 1991 • Mexico
Starring Ciro Basilio, Ana Hernandez, Marco Pavon

Alma (Ana Hernández) spends her days in screen printing, selling records at swap meets, and rehearsing plays and making fanzines with her friends. But Mexico City’s vibrant counterculture scene won’t keep her from dreaming of crossing the border to join her mother in California—especially when the men in her life let her down, her landlady demands rent she can’t pay, and her life on the city’s margins begins to feel even more precarious. Finding bleary beauty in rough video textures, Sarah Minter’s intimate character study offers a moving portrait of a nonconformist determined to make her own way through life.