A Child of My Own

How many extraordinary stories lie behind the hastily and sensationalistically narrated news items in the media? Like many other women in Mexico and beyond, Alejandra was subjected to years of insistent questions about marriage and children. Although she found a solution to one problem by marrying the loving Arturo, she still hasn't managed to get pregnant, and comes up with the most unlikely of plans to pretend that, one way or another, she got the baby everyone was calling for. In the careful hands of Alberti even this awful story of a baby kidnapping becomes an opportunity to move beyond hasty judgments and recognise the complex humanity of people who made mistakes, and paid for them. She plays with the tropes of telenovelas and crime-dramas, casting actors to play the real protagonists and immersing them in pastel-coloured sets. Yet at the core, she tackles almost entirely real issues regarding the prescriptive codes of motherhood, and dealing with a true story wilder than fiction allows her to craft a brilliant folded narrative, bending once again the rules of the documentary game.

Sergio Fant

A Child of My Own, 2026
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The Mole Agent, 2020
The Grown-Ups, 2016
I'm Not From Here, 2015
Tea Time, 2014
The Lifeguard, 2011
The Hairdressers, 2007
The Trapeze Artists, 2005