Mixteco

Mixtec filmmaker Ángeles Cruz returns — after her acclaimed drama “Nudo Mixteco” — with a radiant portrait of childhood laced with delicate touches of magical realism.

Cristina Gonzalez, who works as a farmworker harvesting tomatoes, blueberries and figs in Madera, said that she has tried to help her colleagues file complaints with the state but could not contact someone speaking Indigenous languages such as Mixteco at Cal/OSHA.

Pero muchos hablan también lenguas indígenas como el triqui, el mixteco y el zapoteco.

Su colega, Perusquia, ha aprendido palabras en mixteco y tiene una servilleta llena de traducciones.

But many also speak Indigenous languages including Triqui, Mixteco and Zapotec.