Finally, Director Alfonso Cuarón Has Finished Filming 'Roma'

Alfonso Cuarón has officially wrapped filming on Roma, an intimate Mexican drama that has spent the past 16 years simmering on the back-burner. The filmmaker echoed the advice given to him by friend and colleague Guillermo del Toro when explaining his decision to circle back to his native homeland, before teasing that Roma is a 1970s period drama loosely inspired by Cuarón’s own experiences as a child and his Mexican identity.

Beyond that, there are precious few details available for the director’s deeply personal project but sources claim it will involve the infamous Corpus Christi Massacre, an event in which soldiers killed liberal student protesters in Mexico City circa 1971, in some capacity.

Now that filming has wrapped, the feature will spend the remainder of the year incubating in post-production ahead of a release in 2018.