Twelve Moons (Drama)
Director: Victoria Franco
Producer: Michel Franco,Yardena Maimon,Victoria Franco
Screenwriter: Victoria Franco
Cinematographer: Sergio Armstrong ADFCH
Composer: Rodrigo M.T.
Costume Designer: Gabriela Fernández
Key Cast: Enrique Arreola,Ana de la Reguera
Victoria Franco’s debut feature is a haunting, bruising character study of a woman plunging headfirst into self-destruction.
Sofía, an architect in her 40s living and working in Mexico City, is spiralling. Grieving a recent miscarriage and struggling to accept what it means for her ability to have children, she begins to embrace the more immediate comforts of drugs and alcohol. As her career and marriage start to fall apart, she descends into an outburst of self-destruction that even a rehab stint can’t curb. Amid this personal purgatory, the only person who can possibly save Sofía is herself – but what will it take for her to reach out for help?
Victoria Franco has served as producer and casting director on numerous films by her brother, Michel Franco (Dreams, MIFF 2025). Helming her first feature – with Michel serving as producer, and the siblings’ mother playing a key supporting role – Franco authors an incisive, provocative portrait, throwing audiences into the deep end of her protagonist’s midlife crisis. Shot in stark black-and-white, full of expressionistic flourishes and headlined by a powerhouse performance from Ana de la Reguera, Twelve Moons is a bracing, singular debut.
“A serious-minded drama about loss and addiction that avoids easy platitudes and simplistic moralizing … Ana de la Reguera gives a remarkable performance.” – In Review Online