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Jan 2010
Two friends in a small town are growing apart.
Oct 2006
Gustavo travels to the desert of Wirikuta in search of native species for his research. During his journey into the desert a series of strange events haunt him until one night he is assaulted, losing all of his belongings. The will to survive forces him to start the trek across the desert. It seems all is lost until Ana, his dead wife, appears. With the help of an old Huichol, Gustavo will confront his past and present life.
Nov 2012
Ivan lives with his mother in the daily routine. Without prior notice, Jacobo, the oldest son who was absent, comes back home; desperate for his own situation he decides to start a short trip with his younger brother, Ivan. All along the journey they will learn to understand each other, they will try to make up for lost time and rebuild their affective bonds.
Jun 2013
A young man learns that people don't expect others to have good intentions.
Feb 2009
While their mother unpacks removal boxes, Valentina (5) and Quique (11) run riot around the flat. Their parents have separated. When their father picks them up to show them his new, old life, the children receive a painful glimpse into the adult world.
Feb 2025
Rodrigo is 27 years old, and a few fewer teeth are the least of the consequences his addictions have brought to him. In an attempt to rehabilitate himself, he travels to the north of the country accompanied by Natalia, his sister, who carries a camera on her shoulder throughout the entire process. While they both tell their story, they embark on an intimate and lacerating exodus that confronts them with the depths of their family and relationship. A challenging healing process where brotherly love is the only compass that allows to find the north.
Nov 2022
Camilo, an adolescent rower on a Xochimilco jetty, has his first sexual encounter with another man. One day he thinks he is being discovered by Beto, a colleague from work. When confronted, Camilo accidentally ends up revealing his homosexuality. Not knowing what to do, Camilo reacts violently and decides to flee Xochimilco.
Aug 2020
A renowned journalist faces a crisis when he fails to protect his new home from a potential intruder, shattering his sense of masculinity. Struggling with shame and desperate to reclaim his manhood, his efforts to rectify the situation threaten to undermine the happiness of his recent move with his girlfriend and strain his relationship with his son.
Mar 2025
A girl plays at being a pirate when she learns that her father's ranch will be invaded. Convinced that she can help, she goes into the forest, not knowing that she will find something worse.
The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant. It is a journey through a time wich the world was made by war, that of wich we have so many times heard of and by wich we live constantly under menace. Emigration, war, freedom, childhood, the quest for something, a country -Mexico- kept in memories, are some of the subjects dealt within this film. Remembrance is the story of people who have traveled the world in search of a place where to belong, people whose lives were punctuated by ruptures.
Jul 2003
During Christmas Eve, Dr. Tere tries to get to her daughter's house for dinner, but her plans are frustrated by numerous insufferable patients and an unexpected stomachache.
Aug 2025
Milena, a 15-year-old girl, gets to know an older man online. Upon encountering him in real life, her fate changes irreversibly.
Sep 2023
Alberto, a collective taxi driver, observes through the lives that pass through his car, the beauty hidden in the decadence of the oil city where he works.
Oct 2022
A shy boy wants to befriend three kids that reject him. Determined to fit into the group, he has to decide whether he’s capable of shooting an animal to earn the respect of the kids.
Jul 2023
A young woman in love finds herself immersed in a state of confusion that leads her to feel suddenly alone.
Sep 2010
Jul 2004
A soldier goes back to a town to get rid of all the traces of a massacre.
Oct 2017
A wife walks out on her husband. While he waits for her to return, the husband watches television, drives aimlessly around the city and writes letters to her. He meets her at a bar and gives her the letters in the hope that she will read them and come back to him. After a few days the wife returns. The man goes back to the bar and finds that his wife had left the letters there.
Oct 1992
Mariana is looking for a job after being fired, but she will learn to value herself as a person.
Oct 2010