Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC)

A young man feels uncomfortable with his boyfriend and returns to his apartment to masturbate, but something continues to affect his mood.

Carmina and Ana are two sisters who face the bitterness of their parent's absence, living each day in loneliness but accompanied.

Eddie is an old rock'n'roller who lives tormented by his memories, which make him unable to live in the present.

Nancy is a mariachi woman who was unfairly imprisoned after being mistaken for a human trafficker as she attempted to cross the border into the United States. Now she lives in Mexico with her husband, Teo, with whom she has a son. Every day she goes to Mexico City's Garibaldi Square, the most important meeting point for mariachis in the world, where she is one of very few mariachi women, and she sings to support her family.

Mateo loses his shadow when making a documentary in an indigenous community. He enters a magical and unknown world, losing the conviction to continue living in the city.

In 1993, Rogelio Martínez Merling takes us into the bowels of the Xochiaca landfill in Nezahualcóyotl through his moving documentary "Pepenadores". This intimate and revealing film captures the daily life of the garbage collectors who struggle to survive amidst mountains of waste on the outskirts of Mexico City.

An open invitation to look at the sky.

Ana spends the entire day watching through the window. She is looking for something in the apartment across the street, perhaps a sign. Maybe, deep down, there is something Ana refuses to accept.

Hector is a man of the third age with serious problems of memory, the small homemade tasks of the daily life will be complicated as the day passes.

Bartolomé, a teacher in a multigrade school on the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico, knows well that pedagogy is not based on textbooks and cannot fit behind the four walls of a classroom. A true sower of knowledge unravels his philosophy and method and becomes a beacon of hope for the creation of a humanistic model of education based on curiosity and love for the outside world.

From the break of dawn until the darkness of night, the *tianguis* is born and dies in the streets of Mexico City. It is during these fleeting hours that we can find an endless array of colors, sounds, and unique personalities.

Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.

Mina falls in love with Ama, the girl of her dreams. Mina seeks contact with her at the risk of being caught by her boyfriend and thus losing the opportunity to be with the one she really loves.

Maricarmen is a writer who lives with schizophrenia since she was seventeen years old. The film is a portrait of her live, her illness and her work.

Julián has a simple routine for every day: spying on Ana from the time she leaves until she returns home. Then Julián receives a call and reports all the activities.

A girl tries to masturbate.

Jonas, a 14-year-old teenager, takes a walk by the river that runs by his house. His friend Marina shadows him. They meet, spend the afternoon together, and as the daylight fades, so does their innocence.

An exploration of modern ruins that seeks to record the traces of time in Mexico City.