EXCLUSIVE: Trailer released for ‘Chiquitititita’ from Mexican writer-director Carolina Mejía Lartilleux

16 July 2026 | By Natalia Albin

Chiquitititita follows Nina, an artist who shrinks, literally growing physically smaller, every time she's made to feel small by those around her. Her confidence dwindles through comparison, money problems and negative feedback, until she rediscovers what drove her to art in the first place and reclaims her voice.

This is Carolina Mejía Lartilleux's sixth short film as writer and director. A graduate of the New York Film Academy's BFA Filmmaking program, she has directed short films and commercials across Los Angeles and Mexico City, and most recently has written and directed for television, including soap operas airing on Mexican networks and the streaming platform VIX - such as Corazón guerrero and Me atrevo a amarte.

"Being a filmmaker can be emotionally draining when one is constantly comparing with others in life and on social media," she says of writing Chiquitititita. "As I was a young director working on a soap opera, along with more experienced crew and cast members than I, the feeling of not being enough, feeling small, became constant."

"I had to pull myself together and keep going until I learned to believe in myself and value my voice. But that was a process, and as I went through it, I got the idea of physically showing the emotion of feeling small. So that's how it all started: the story of a young artist who faces rejection but shrinks as she loses herself to insecurities."

Once the script was written, producer Julian Chávez and Lartilleux began looking for solutions to the technical aspects of the film, and ended up combining CGI with practical effects to create the illusion of the shrinking.

The short stars Irma Sánchez as Nina. Watch the trailer below.