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Alfonso Algara's Las Amazonas de Yaxunah is an encouraging story about a group of indigineous women that, against all odds, achieve to overcome all the obstacles that they face in their daily lives and in their community to become an international recoginazed softball team.

The lack of economic resources and proper training is the least of their problems, since they're not initially allowed to play or visit certain places of the town according to certain ideas and customs of the community.

Yalitza Aparicio's voice fits perfectly with the rythm and pace of the documentary, and the alluring photography by Ernesto Abrego and Simon Schneider is another good move of this outstanding Mexican documentary.

Juan Rulfo might be one of the most influencial Latin American writters of all time, and Pedro Paramo is without a doubt his masterpiece, so having to adapt it into any kind of work (a film, a tv series, a play) is a risk very few screenwriters, directors and producers can afford.

Four times Academy Award® nominee cinematographer - and now director - Rodrigo Prieto knows very well how to use all his resources and talent to create a flawless visually and technical stunning enviroment worthy of praise with the help of Academy Award® winner Eugenio Caballero in charge of the production design, and Academy Award® winner Gustavo Santaolalla in the music score.

The cast is amazing too, especially the supporting performances by Dolores Heredia, Roberto Sosa and Ilse Salas.

Goya® winner Mateo Gil does an impressive work adapting Rulfo's book, keeping in mind the narrative of the book is not lineal and might be difficult to follow, therefore this is a movie that needs to be watched while paying attention.

After the success of the acclaimed movie "Ya no estoy aquí", Fernando Frías tries with a smarter but unfortunatelly not so strong project, "No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea".

The plot turns around one tragedie after another, mixed with black humour and smart analogies.

At times the pace might be slow, but Fernando knows how to build a problematic atmosphere and uses all his resources to develop the characters and the chaotic situations they are going through.

The weaker point of this movie resides on the screenplay too, Fernando tries to cover a lot of subplots that it's hard to focus on one, but the performances of everyone involved in this movie, specially the staring couple - Dario Yazbek Bernal and Natalia Solián - are so good, that its flaws might be forgiven.