Videosala of the Olimpo
(Mexico 2013). Director: Jose Luis Valle. Starring: Jesus Padilla, Susana Salazar, Barbara Perrin Rivemar. Two elderly divorcees slave away for next to nothing in "Workers." Beautifully composed and dryly humorous picture chronicles the formerly connected lives of a lightbulb-factory janitor, who doesn’t have the right papers to retire, and a domestic servant, whose rich patrona dies and leaves everything to a spoiled pet. Oddball observational story, which also works as a biting commentary on near-anonymous employees, was named best local pic at the Guadalajara fest.