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SDL Estela is a woman who lives between reality and imagination inside a psychiatric hospital. The recurring apparitions of Diana, his daughter, will cause Estela to prepare to face her fate and finally accept the loss of Diana.
Sep 2022
Carlos is a teenager who lives with his mother, Lily, waiting for Fernando, his father, who works as a truck driver. One weekend, Fernando comes home from work to try to take his place as the father of the family, while Carlos and Lily do everything they can to make him stay.
Oct 2025
Sep 2024
Juana, Mar, and Eduardo tell their stories of abuse.
Oct 2020
Pablo and Lucía, bound by a shared past, enter their first months of theater studies with high hopes—only for a single night to unravel everything. At a party, Lucía disappears from Pablo's life, leaving him grappling with her absence amidst friends, family, and the echoes of their dreams. As he drifts through memories and familiar places, Pablo begins to understand that Lucía saw the world with a unique insight, challenging him to rebuild his own path in the face of loss and rediscovery.
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When oil tankers went aground in the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico in Campeche, thousands of oil workers lost their payments and their rights.
Nov 2020
Asleep on his desk after a long day at work, Javier suddenly wakes up to find his hungry cat. However, his mischievous and jealous drawings absorb the house keys and him in an attempt to get him to devote all his energy solely to them.
Aug 2025
Sincho is a cruise ship clown who is evicted from his home without much money. He hallucinates about a lawyer who offers to help him. Homeless, Sincho decides to commit suicide rather than suffer on the streets.
Apr 2021
During the weekend Julian takes care of his father Ramiro who is sick and close to his death. Ramiro looks to reconcile with his son after hurting him in the past for his sexual orientation. Although Julian keeps looking for his father’s acceptance, their personal desires will prevent them from mending the relationship, as neither can accept the other as he is.
A nostalgic-night trip through Mexico City. Through the heels of Gloria and Eden we will wander through those places that come to life when the sun goes down, where gender is blurred, colors vibrate, and souls shine under neon lights.
Aug 2021
Hipólita is a domestic worker who, like her mother before her, has worked in Samuel's enormous colonial house for decades. After Hipólita becomes aware of class differences and Samuel invades her privacy, she decides to take control of her work and her life.
Jan 2018
In a rusty world, a robot attempts to assemble its final creation.
On a quiet night in Mexico City, Natalia visits her boyfriend Diego to lose his virginity with him, as agreed. As they explore their ideas about love, sex, and innocence, their adolescent concerns lead them to confront and mature in ways they did not expect.
Jun 2019
En mi piel is a self-portrait about the struggle between mind and body dealing with bulimia.
Aug 2024
XX and XY were born in captivity. Each existed in their own room, taught to survive by animations played on a screen. What distinguishes humans from animals? What will happen when they meet?
At a rough construction, bricklayers begin their work day calmly and serenely, until they discover the heaviness that lies within them and the physical wear and tear that it involves. This same situation begins to fall on the workers so that everything begins to become encapsulated and become like a limbo.
Oct 2023
Bonifacio is a man caught between revolutionary and contemporary Mexico, struggling to find fulfillment in either era. Haunted by the death of his son and burdened by social upheavals, he navigates a life marked by unfulfilled dreams and persistent challenges.
The moving portrait of Javier de la Mora, going from day to night time, and from the more superficial to the intimacy of his life.
Sep 2023