For many, social isolation is not a novel invention of the pandemic. Filmed prior to any health-quarantine measure, Los Lobos is based on the director’s childhood memories: a Mexican who, at the age of five, suddenly finds himself living with his mother and younger brother in a strange land (ironically called New Mexico) in another country. There, while the mother leaves for work, the children live confined in a small and uncomfortable apartment. Akin to his own imaginations and ingenuity, cinema becomes an expansion of experiences and an empathy-generating machine. (E. V)