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Lachatao 2024
In the small, enchanting town of Lachatao, the children's fears, dreams, and wild imaginations come to life, offering us a glimpse into their everyday adventures. Through their eyes, we are invited to explore the wonder of childhood and the hopes they hold for their future, as they navigate the mysteries of growing up in a place full of magic and possibility.

Ziuta Travesías 2024
Ziuta, Polish, Jewish and survivor of the Second World War, was an extraordinary woman who aroused special devotion. Her political commitment and participation in supporting the clandestine struggle, beyond being a virtue, were a direct and almost biological part of it. Ziuta had the determination, being just a teenager, to resist exile with fortitude, saving her mother and another family from perishing in flight. Despite the horrors and hardships, she maintained a grateful attitude toward life. These characteristics, and her particular sense of humor, permeate her story, even in chapters with painful themes: the death of her father, her madness; her suicide attempt in the Caspian Sea and her decision to come to Mexico, where she rebuilt her life and lived with artists, writers, dancers and filmmakers at a time of great cultural effervescence in the country, even participating as an actress in some films. .

Disappear 2024
Mary travels from Honduras to the United States looking for her son, a migrant kidnapped in Mexico. Francisco, the dean of the Pesh community, fights against the extinction of the tropical forest. Both struggle against disappearance.

Pola Weiss 2023
The inspiring life and untimely death of a Mexican artist who, ahead of her time, saw the darkness in the light of the screen and responded by transforming it into art.

The City 2022
The city is a wordless visual symphony, inspired by the (un)wonders of Mexico City.

Los cuervos 2022
The sky was covered with clouds and no one knew why the sun no longer rose in the morning. That night someone managed to enter the hacienda to try to put an end to that strange spell.

The True Word 2020
The community of Ayapa struggles to keep their language alive. Through the memories of their elders, this documentary tries to reconstruct the town's history.

Three Sketches of Home 2020
This is a series of studies filmed in 8 and 16mm about how self-exile develops a familiar and foreign perception about home.

Eró 2020
Iván, a man who apparently has the perfect life, lives with an overwhelming sexual desire. One night Iván discovers the new product of a company dedicated to the manufacture of sex dolls, the new launch: ERÓ, a child android with hyper-realistic characteristics for pedophiles.

To See You Again 2020
In 2016 the Mexican District Attorney secretly buried more than 100 murdered bodies during the war against drug trafficking. They kept it hidden until a group of women, mothers, discovered it while searching for their missing children. One of them retrieves the body of her brother. "To See You Again" narrates the participation of Mexican women as they exhume what remains of the corpses and learn about forensic work. They help us discover the crimes committed by the state when burying the bodies.

Wilderness 2020 star_border 6
This is a movie built from impericia, from misunderstanding, from surprise and mutual amazement; it is a film that reflects on the idea of community, the relationship of mankind with the environment in which nature, beasts and human beings depend on each other to continue inhabiting a barren land.

The Last Memories of Abril 2020 star_border 8
Camila and Abril grew up together in a small town on the coast and are best friends. There's an obvious and uncomfortable attraction between them. April's family will move to the city, their paths will have to separate forever.

Negra 2020
I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I realized they were talking to me.

Serpent's Paradise 2019 star_border 5.7
A strange man appears after an accident in an abandoned highway in the Mexican desert, he’s rescued by a fighting cocks trainer and his grandson, who helps him recover. The man begins to perform healing miracles around the ejido, so he starts being called a Prophet. The priest of the community and the altar boy oppose his stay in the community of this uncomfortable resident.

The Creation of the World 2019
The creation myth is adapted into an animated short film made by Seri indigenous children and elders.

When I Shut My Eyes 2019
The isolation of Adela and Marcelino is common among many inmates processed without an interpreter in their native language before the Mexican justice system. Through their subjective experience, the dreams and memories they preserve of their lands in prison, they express in two voices the disorientation and the need to resist against exclusion by telling their story.

IV Impermanence 2019
The trace of disturbing memories within a circle where the horizon is lost, what was already seen and reappears without any sense. The tiny space where dreams becomes lively present. Nothing is permanent, the dreams are foam.

Prince of Peace 2019 star_border 4.7
A mysterious skeleton appears in a mexican neighborhood.

The Valley Of Stone Rivers 2019
This documentary delves into the experiences of four older people whose lives were marked by the rivers, lakes and canals of Mexico City, when water was much more present in the metropolitan area than it is today.

What Happened to the Bees? 2018
After millions of bees suddenly died in the state of Campeche, Mexico, the Mayan beekeeping communities and their representatives decided to organize to find the cause and confront the authorities and the transnational company Monsanto, who have put their subsistence in danger by the sowing transgenic soy in their territory.

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