Flies

Plot

Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.

About Flies

Flies (Spanish: Moscas) is a 2026 comedy-drama film directed by Fernando Eimbcke, co-written by Eimbcke and Vanesa Garnica and produced by Michel Franco and Eréndira Núñez Larios. Set in contemporary Mexico City, the film follows the journey of an 9-year-old boy and a middle-aged woman in the wake of the hospitalization of the boy's mother. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival on 18 February 2026, where it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

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