VENICE 2025 Giornate degli Autori
Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla
"I've always secretly judged my family, so I told myself I had to go back and realize what it really was"
by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico
VENICE 2025: The Mexican director talks about her film centring on an eccentric family consisting only of women, who fight to save their home from foreclosure
Mexican director Mayra Hermosillo talks to us about her very personal film Vainilla, set in 1980s Mexico and centring on an eccentric family consisting only of women, who fight to save their home from foreclosure, all seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl. The film is screening in competition in the 22nd Giornate degli Autori at Venice.