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Knock At The Door: Directed by Isabel Barajas




  • Isabel Barajas Writer, Director

  • Rafael Trejo Producer

  • Bernardo Grobet Producer

  • Isabel Barajas Producer

  • Betania Fonseca Enríquez Key Cast "Elisa "

  • Carolina Politi Key Cast "Tia / Aunt"

  • Amaranta Gutiérrez Rios Key Cast "Rebeca"

  • José Tapia Key Cast "Chico / Boy "

  • Austin Morgan Key Cast "Papá / Dad"

  • Itzel Sarmientos Key Cast "Chica secundaria 1/ Middle School Girl 1 "

  • Lucy Barragán Key Cast "Chica secundaria 2 / Middle School Girl 2"

  • Fernada Rivera Key Cast "Subway Girl"

  • Fernando Cuautle Key Cast "Hombre coche / Driver "

  • Ximena Rios Key Cast "Elisa little girl"

  • Ian B. Morales Cinematographer

  • Paloma María López Pérez Art Directors

  • Ximena Medina Catalán Art Directors

  • Fabián León López Sound Recordist

  • Bastián Pascal Sound Recordist

  • Bernardo Chávez Sound Recordist

  • Israel Cruz Sound Recordist

  • Patricia Yáñez Acting Coach

  • Adrián Aguirre Acting Coach

  • Romina Serna Production Manager

  • Rosa Laura Pico Production Coordinator

  • Laura Miranda First Assistant Director

  • Xavier Rodríguez Second Assistant Director

  • Pía Vinageras Third Assistant Director

  • Xavier Rodríguez Script

  • Diego Cruz Cilvetti Second Unit Cinematographer

  • Antonio Ayala Assistant Camera

  • Estefanía Velázquez Assistant Camera

  • Silvana Lázaro Assistant Camera

  • Marco González Assistant Camera

  • Milton Rodríguez Assistant Camera

  • Arturo Campos Nieto Assistant Camera

  • Yazmín Núñez Assistant Camera

  • Francisco Contreras Assistant Camera

  • Rodrigo León Assistant Camera

  • Alejandro Paredes Assistant Camera

  • Matías López Assistant Camera

  • Natalia Bermudez Assistant Camera

  • Andrés Durán Assistant Camera

  • Alejandro Breck Assistant Camera

  • Ignacio Sánchez Gaffer

  • Clemente Piña Staff

  • Juan José López Staff

  • José Luis Jiménez Staff

  • Octavio Alfonso Martínez Staff

  • Benjamín Salas Location Assistant

  • René Mercado Production Assistants

  • Julián Chávez Production Assistants

  • Andrés Tiro Production Assistants

  • Eduardo Sánchez Production Assistants

  • Montserrat Villegas Production Assistants

  • Ilse Jiménez On Set Dresser

  • Abel Estrada Art Director Assistants

  • Atzín Iriberri Art Director Assistants

  • Diana López Art Director Assistants

  • Alejandro Paredes Art Director Assistants

  • Patricio Aguilar Art Director Assistants

  • María Paola Ramírez Art Director Assistants

  • Gustavo Granados Driver / Swinger

  • Isabel Barajas Editors

  • Ian B. Morales Editors

  • Macarena Hernández Editors

  • Clemente Piña. Editor Assistant

  • Ian B. Morales Colourist and VFX Compositor

  • Isabel Barajas Sound Designer

  • Carlos San Juan Foley Artist

  • Isabel Barajas Foley Artist

  • Isabel Barajas Sound Mixer

  • David Muñoz Sound Mixer

  • Mon de León Music Composer

  • Sebastián Silva Díaz Music Composer

  • Alejandro Ortega Music Composer

  • Santiago Mijares Music Composer

  • Héctor Vázquez Music Supervisor



A dreamy girl goes through puberty evading the loneliness and pressure of her environment until in just one night, treason and harassment lead her to big disappointments that push her to grow up abruptly.


Director Statement

"Childhood is a knife stabbed in the throat, you knew how to take it away. Now, you got to learn how to swallow saliva." ; that is the way the playwright named Wajdi Mouawad describes the loss of the innocence in his play Fires, and it was the same force of that metaphor that puberty hit me: when I was thirteen I found many alcohol bottles hidden between the clothes of the wardrobe of my aunt, revealing her addiction and my naivety.


That energic and authoritarian woman, the role model, was who conducted me to confront the practicality of the world through an endless list of steps to follow, of expectations to fill and women ideals to accomplish: "Behave, don't go out by yourself, don't dress like that, don't play like that, a lady doesn't act like that."


Day by day I followed the rules carefully until the bottles got out from their hideout, not only to discover that de model was a misleading guise but to prove that I was an unbreakable part of that situation when I saw myself putting the bottles back in their place without saying a thing.



That way it was started to be called Knock At The Door, intending to condense that moment of disappointment and take it to a story that doesn't belong to me anymore, but that has been presented to each one of us, knocking at the door demanding to confront the uncertainty that distinguishes the transition into adolescence.


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