
Alicia Segovia Juárez
Directing
Biography
Alicia Segovia Juárez has a degree in Communications. She graduated with honors as a film director from the University Center for Film Studies (C.U.E.C. - U.N.A.M) with her film “Jerusalem”. She has written and directed several short films, documentaries and fiction, which have been screened in national and international festivals such as the Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival 2014, the São Paulo International Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Film Academy Vienna Film Festival, among others. Her work has also received awards such as Special Award Studio 5 de Mayo at the 11th Morelia International Film Festival 2014; the Best Film Award at the AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival 2014 in Toronto, Canada; an Ariel nomination in 2011 by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences; the London Film Academy Scholarship at the International Film Festival Expresión en Corto 2010.
Known For

When thirteen-year-old Raúl is asked to entertain the local landowner's son, a game of power and pride starts between the two boys.
A World for Raúl

During the end of the world, two best friends walk around their city, talking about their sex lives, and one of them reveals they are still a virgin.
Velociraptor

Three objects are used in a manner in which they weren't supposed to be. Something unprecedented happens: armed with a voice and conscience, these objects will reflect on the absurd arguments that support domestic violence.
Lessons on the Improper Use of Objects

At 75 years old, Ricardo has problems balancing his job as a janitor at an elementary school and the care his wife requires in a wheelchair. Since it is impossible for him to survive on the pension he would receive, he must continue working and the conflict with a student will end up causing him to lose everything.
The Janitor

Displaced by the violence that swept their town, Paloma and Lobo survive trying to love each other. Through thirst, fear and nostalgia, Paloma wishes to go back home but Lobo lives tied to a memory that stops him from returning.
The Dove and the Wolf

The film is not constructed as a lineal story, instead, each scene works as a painter’s brush freely tracing a distinctive shape; the lifestyle of the Raramuri people, the particular way in which they relate within the family, the community and their surrounding nature. Nararachi’s warm, intimate and profoundly human insight of the indigenous lifestyle and culture is so powerful that it enables the viewer to expand her horizon.
Land of Tears
Andrea bids farewell to her childhood and, as facing the possibility of a change in her life, she decides to play on a last ride.
Andrea

Eva moves into a new apartment, where she finds an old wardrobe that serves as a supernatural portal, allowing her to discover different versions of herself.
Reflejos Cotidianos

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The Mayan Forest: When a Tapir Gazes Upon You

Evy and Quiti share with us the remnants of their relationship as they navigate their lives in solitude. They are the last two inhabitants of a ghost town in the Sonora Mountains, in northern Mexico.
Phantom Love

Olimpia Coral Melo never set out to become a feminist icon. The humiliation of seeing her intimate video go viral made her want to abandon her own name. For thirteen years, she fought to pass a law against digital sexual violence in Mexico. Now, as the Olimpia Law gains momentum across Latin America, she must come to terms with her wounds and reclaim the name that shame once tried to take away from her.
Llamarse Olimpia
Carmina and Ana are two sisters who face the bitterness of their parent's absence, living each day in loneliness but accompanied.
Jerusalem

Bartolomé, a teacher in a multigrade school on the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico, knows well that pedagogy is not based on textbooks and cannot fit behind the four walls of a classroom. A true sower of knowledge unravels his philosophy and method and becomes a beacon of hope for the creation of a humanistic model of education based on curiosity and love for the outside world.
The Sower

Art is the way in which some children from San Gregorio, Atlapulco, sublimate their trauma when witnessing the 2017 earthquake in Mexico.