BATH OF LIFE

Synopsis

It´s a immersive documentary which guides us for an intimate journey to the inner life of a public bath through the voices of three characters: Felipe, the main clerk since 1984, Juana a street sweeper from Mexico City’s and Jose, a frequent client who has been gone to the baths for more than forty years. This documentary becomes a confessionary for those who gather around in the same place: the sauna. Each character shares it’s own past, what the baths means to them. We get a glimpse of their lives while they take just another bath.

Director Biography

Dalia Reyes Campos graduated in Communications Major from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She obtained a Master’s degree in “Documentary and Society” from the ESCAC, Universidad de Barcelona. She studied film direction and screenwriting at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica A.C in Mexico City. She has received of FONCA-CONACULTA´s grant Jóvenes Creadores in two occasions. She has also been selected, for the incentive program Estímulo a Creadores Cinematográficos managed by IMCINE in 2012 and 2015.