
Most Dangerous Ways To School: Sierra Madre & Mexico City
Two children in Mexico face journeys to school that most viewers would call impossible. In the Sierra Tarahumara, nine-year-old Obdulia González Fierro lives with her parents and brothers in the mountains, helping her father with farm work between the treks to class, while he coaches her on both homework and the walk itself. The film follows her along the exposed trails and canyon paths that connect her family's remote home to the nearest school, capturing the physical toll of a commute most children never have to consider. The second segment moves to Mexico City, where twelve-year-old José Alfredo Martínez, blind since birth, navigates one of the world's largest cities to get to class. He lives on a hillside on the city's outer edge with his brother Ángel, his mother, cousins, aunt, uncle, and grandmother, and the cameras follow him through crowded streets and traffic without sight, relying on memory, sound, and family support. Real locations, real families, and unscripted footage of the routes themselves carry the film rather than narration alone.