Bio: SOFÍA AYALA was born in 1994 in Mexico City. She studied Dramatic Literature and Theatre at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2018 she moved to Germany and began her studies at the German Film and Television Academy of Berlin (DFFB). Here she has continued to explore metaphoric storytelling and to develop approaches to dismantle the male gaze in cinema. VOLVER AL SUR (2022) is her first short film.