DIRECTOR STATEMENT
Amilcar Morales and Ximena Ahuatzin are filmmakers from Puebla, Mexico, whose work emerges from a shared interest in visual arts and experimentation. Since 2020, their practice has moved between cinema, fine arts, and design, focusing on the construction of atmosphere, visual language, and sensory experience. Fara marks their first collaboration as co-directors, a project where their visual and narrative concerns converge.

Fara stems from the idea that motherhood and monstrosity are not opposites, but forces that can coexist within the same body. The film approaches this tension from a place of uncertainty, presenting a bond that feels both sacred and disturbing, resisting clear definition.

Set within a space where time dissolves into repetition, the film blurs the boundaries of the human. The body is not treated as expressive in a traditional sense; instead, it is guided by an internal, almost instinctive force, existing in relation to something that is both fragile and imposing—overwhelming yet breakable. This dynamic suggests a condition in which individual will becomes secondary to a larger, inescapable cycle.

Through this lens, Fara proposes a view of motherhood removed from idealization, understanding it instead as an experience shaped by transformation, rupture, and pain. To bring life into the world implies crossing a threshold that cannot be undone. The ritual at the core of the film becomes cyclical, endlessly repeating itself, where each action is both consequence and continuation, and where the line between blessing and punishment begins to dissolve.

The intention is not to provide answers, but to construct a space where the viewer is confronted with something unfamiliar and unsettling, and to recognize that what disturbs them most lies in its proximity to something deeply human.