Huesera: The Bone Woman
Valeria's joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she's cursed by a sinister entity. As domestic expectations, buried desire, and supernatural visitations begin to mount, her marriage, identity, and sense of bodily control collapse, forcing her deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.
A debut feature from Mexican director Michelle Garza Cervera, Huesera: The Bone Woman is a shadowy and spine-chilling take on the body horror genre that explores motherhood as a transformative—and terrifying—experience.
Filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera will join for a post-screening conversation Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell.
Free admission! Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies as part of Cine Con Cultura 2026, Ithaca's annual Latinx Heritage Month film festival.
In Spanish with English subtitles. Courtesy: XYZ Films
Cine Con Cultura is organized by Cultura Ithaca! and Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County in collaboration with Ithaca College, Cornell Cinema, and the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell.
About the filmmaker
Michelle Garza Cervera is a Mexican director and screenwriter who graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her debut feature film, Huesera, premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best New Narrative Director Award and the Nora Ephron Award, and went on to win more than 40 international awards and four Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences, including Best First Feature and Best Original Screenplay.
She was a Sundance Momentum and Sundance-Universal Fellow in 2023 and is currently developing her next feature film, Ornamento, based on the novel by Juan Cárdenas, co-written with Alejandra Moffat and produced by RT Features. Michelle is also part of the Mandíbula series project as a director and producer, currently in development with Universal International Studios, based on the novel by Mónica Ojeda and produced by La Corriente del Golfo and Eat The Cat. Michelle directed the remake of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle for 20th Century Studios, which premiered on Hulu and Disney+.
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