Bajo el Sol

Bajo el Sol releases August 12, 2026. The film is a documentary set in Puerto Escondido, a coastal town in Oaxaca, Mexico, known as a destination for international tourism. A filmmaker, staying with his grandmother over the course of a summer, conducts conversations with both tourists and local residents to examine how tourism has shaped the community across several interconnected dimensions: labor conditions, access to water, environmental contamination, and the pressures of gentrification. The film frames these issues through the personal lens of a family visit, layering the intimate with the structural.