After being recognized for his short film La Canción de los Niños Muertos (2008) and his debut feature length feature The Life After (2013) - dramas about guilt and forgiveness, which narrate fraternal confrontations from the mother's absence and a significant death that irremediably mutate the characters' personality - Mexican filmmaker David Pablos returns with The Chosen Ones (Las Elegidas). Inspired by Jorge Volpi's novel of the same name - which will be published soon and describes how in Tenancingo, Tlaxcala (a quintessential sexist Mexican town) the practice of female trafficking is inherited like any other tradition - the film takes the action to Tijuana and tells the love story between Ulises and Sofía, a relationship that is altered when Ulises' father Marcos, who is...
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