Celebrating its seventy fifth birthday this year with a line up full of academy award hopefuls two time academy award winning director alfonso quote on is back after five years where the richly personal tale filmed in his native mexico roma depicts a turbulent year in the life of a middle class family in mexico in the one nine hundred seventy s. and is quite owns owed to the women who raised him critics loved it. the film is one of three match for x. original productions running in the festival the cannes film festival band s next tricks from competing this year but venice has proved the shy about dancing with the streaming to and. the lack of female representation in all areas of the film industry apart from on the red carpet continues to be a burning issue only one of the twenty one films competing in venice was directed by a woman despite the fact that one fifth of only entries came from female directors