Alfonso Cuarón’s love letter to his homeland of Mexico, ROMA (2018) was recognized in the year of its release with an AFI SPECIAL AWARD, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “ROMA is an ode to life, love and loss – a monument to the power of film to inspire empathy across the walls of geography, class and culture.  Alfonso Cuarón’s personal tour de force deftly captures the emotional balance of intimacy and opera – recalling the poetic power of Fellini and Buñuel while creating a film of striking originality and vaulting ambition.  Emblazoned in memory by its hypnotic cinematography and bravura sound design, with a heart that beats from Yalitza Aparicio’s radiant humanity, ROMA is a work of art so powerful that audiences will feel transported to a world they may have never visited, but have lived forever.”