Joshua began his professional career in the film by Carlos Reygadas. He began working as a director of documentaries, publicity campaigns and television series in 2007 and directed his first feature film La Maldad, selected at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in 2015.
In a small town plagued by the war between the army and the drug traffickers, a child has lost his mother. His grandmother has told him that the only way of getting her back is to invoke the forces of nature. The boy heads off into a forest to plead for his mother, as the town prepares for a final battle with the army.