LUCHADORAS

LUCHADORAS is an intimate portrait of three courageous female wrestlers from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a city known for its high murder rate and violence against women.

Despite being surrounded by a culture of machismo, the trio actively challenge this. There's the short statued Mini Serinita whose biggest dream is to become a full time Luchadora and leave behind the factory work that disenfranchises so many women in the country. Lady Candy, who can see the US border where her daughters were taken from her house, but due to visa regulations can never cross it. And Baby Star, the young single mother who was a Lucha Libre Star at an early age and now wants to make her comeback. Together, the three Luchadoras present a new image of modern-day Mexican women, both in the ring and in their daily lives.