Los Herederos

Wherever you are: in Guerrero, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Puebla, Veracruz… Everywhere it’s the same scene: children trailing behind the adults, cutting the maize, leading the cattle to pasture, harvesting peppers, tomatoes, green beans in the plantations. There is no distinction between adults and children, the workload is the same. When Eugenio Polgovsky associates adults and children, it is not to reconstitute an image of the family; he instead shows the same subjection to work, to the struggle against hunger and poverty, an unchanging destiny. The little girl with the badly scratched knees and the grandmother bent double, who are shaping the tortillas together, are not separate individuals-it is the same person at two different ages of her existence. (Yann Lardeau)