Winner of the Best International Documentary Award at the Hot Docs Film Festival and the Chicago Film Festival, The Other Side of the Wall tells the story of Honduran teenagers Rocío and Ale, who are left with no choice but to play the role of both mother and father to their two younger siblings after their mother is sentenced to 10 years in a Mexican prison on questionable charges. As apprehensions about the future intensify, Ale must make the difficult decision between keeping the family together in Mexico or breaking them apart to cross the US border for work.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL / AL OTRO LADO DEL MURO
A film by Pau Ortiz
(Mexico/Spain, 2017, 68 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Now streaming on Ovid.tv
