* The screening on Sunday, January 14th will be introduced by Debbie Martin (UCL).
* We recommend watching the film in conjuction with Land Without Bread, which will be screened before it.
Once he escapes juvenile prison, El Jaibo (Miguel Inclán) resumes his role as the ringleader of a group troubled street kids in Mexico City's slums. El Jaibo leads them to pilfer, but he wants retribution. Determined to find the man who allegedly sent him to jail, he enlists the help of Pedro (Estela Inda), one of the younger boys. Before long, Pedro becomes entangled in a criminal world that threatens to destroy what little he has, no matter how hard he tries to leave that world behind.
Deborah Martin is Professor of Latin American Film and Culture at University College London. She is a Latin American film studies scholar and the author of The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (Palgrave, 2019), Latin American Women Filmmakers Production, Politics, Poetics (I.B.Tauris, 2017) and The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel (Manchester University Press, 2016).