Llévame en tus brazos

This rare amalgam of social realism and stylized melodrama by the politically attuned Julio Bracho tackles the exploitation of workers who, in perpetual debt to business owners, were often forced to “pay” with their own daughters. Sevilla plays a young woman who leaves her happiness and home for Mexico City in an attempt to settle her father’s debts. The actress initiated the project at Cinematográfi ca Calderón, hired Bracho and ensured that it resisted becoming escapist fare. The result: a potent, aheadof-its-time story of women trying to take back their power, one that mirrors her own experiences. (Telluride Film Festival)