THE BLACK STAIN

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Yareni Velázquez Mendoza, Mexico, 2024, 5mins
This is the story of a woman in prison who was told from childhood that she was a black stain and grew up believing that darkness was her destiny. But the struggles she faced both inside and outside of incarceration gave her the opportunity to transform that stain into something different: a new way of seeing herself and rewriting her story.