The Muleteer

The Muleteer (La arriera) is a Mexican period film with an LGBTQIAP+ theme, winner of two awards at the Guadalajara Film Festival: Best Direction (Isabel Cristina Fregoso) and Best Cinematography (María Saravasti Herrera). Set in Mexico during the 1930s (shortly after the Revolution), the story follows Emilia (Andrea Aldana), a young orphan who is adopted by a family working in the fields and wants to search for her father, of whom she only knows that he is a muleteer. However, the journey takes on a deeper, more internal purpose. This is one of the most beautiful Mexican films of its decade (well-directed, photographed, designed, and acted), about the search for identity and reconciliation with the past to create a better future. Don’t miss it.