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The Inheritors (0+)

Mexico, 2008, 90 min.
Director: Eugenio Polgovsky
At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. «The Inheritors» is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival. These children work farming, sculpting and painting alebrijes, shepherding, making bricks, weaving cloth, looking after their little siblings, collecting water, harvesting tomato, chili, maize, and laboring in a myriad of other activities. They have inherited tools and techniques from their ancestors, but they have also inherited their day-by-day hardship. Generations pass and child workers remain captive in a cycle of inherited poverty.

Eugenio Polgovsky

Eugenio Polgovsky

was born in Mexico City in 1977. In 1994 he won the world photography contest «Living together», organized by UNESCO. He studied directing and cinematography at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematografíca in Mexico City, graduated cum laude. His work as a director comprises short films and documentaries. He has also worked as cinematographer on documentaries and fiction films. «Tropic of Cancer», his first documentary, won several prizes around the world and also had a special screening at Cannes’ «Semaine de la critique» and was part of Frontier selection at Sundance. His new documentary, «The Inheritors», produced with support of the Hubert Bals Fund and Visions Sud Est had its world premier at the 65th Venice Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY

«The colour of his shadow» (2003); «Tropic of cancer» (2004); «The Inheritors» (2008).
Mexico, 2008, 90 min.
Director: Eugenio Polgovsky
At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. «The Inheritors» is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival. These children work farming, sculpting and painting alebrijes, shepherding, making bricks, weaving cloth, looking after their little siblings, collecting water, harvesting tomato, chili, maize, and laboring in a myriad of other activities. They have inherited tools and techniques from their ancestors, but they have also inherited their day-by-day hardship. Generations pass and child workers remain captive in a cycle of inherited poverty.