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2004 | Color | 35 min

Embroidering Freedom, Unthreading Punishment A collection of impressive testimonies of indigenous women incarcerated in the Santa María Ixcotel state prison in Oaxaca, accused of drug dealing. There are many mothers among them that are innocent of the imputed offences


Country: México
Direction: Díaz; Tonatiuh
Script: Díaz; Tonatiuh
Production: Núñez; Concepción, Castellanos; Aline
Photography: José García; Juan
Sound: Morales; Clara
Participation year at FICM: 2005

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