A journey above and below the sea, portraying the charm and diversity of the waters of northwest Mexico. A team of urban documentary filmmakers and divers set sail for several weeks on a boat, The Sandman, and discover the unexplored: surprisingly large and friendly creatures, waters teeming with life, beauty, and movement concentrated in natural reserves of the Gulf of California and the Pacific, unique in the world.
After returning to her childhood home, Sofia faces the challenge of living day after day, immersed in a vicious circle where the world seems to stop and where the most important thing is to live hedonistically. However, Sofia will sooner or later have to face the real reason that keeps her trapped in her own life, escaping the conflict that she does not want to face.
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.
Hundreds of meters away, above the clouds. Farther, far beyond everything. You are hiding, Susana. Hiding in the immensity of God. Where I cannot reach you or see you and where my words do not reach. –Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo.
Three generations of women return to the old family home in Sinaloa to confront the ghosts of their past. Our story, wherever we begin to tell it, begins with a broken heart.
Effort to construct an audio-visual dance between the body of an 90-year old man and the body of his house, that has become an extension of himself.
An open invitation to look at the sky.
An aesthetic and politic portrait of Mexico ́s 90s decade through the biography of artist Rita Guerrero (1964-2011), who developed in different fields, mostly music and theater. She was the vocalist of Santa Sabina, a rock band in which she was the most remarkable figure. She committed herself to different social movements such as the Zapatista Army Movement (EZLN) and the Electoral Left. She died at 46 from breast cancer. Her voice and music left a mark on a generation.
An exploration of modern ruins that seeks to record the traces of time in Mexico City.
A film essay that explores the relationship between film and memory, based on the personal memoir of the director. An autobiographical attempt to analyze this relationship going from the individual to the collective. From Chris Marker to Hitchcock and on to Kennedy´s assassination, passing through Fritz Lang and Bruce Willis, the memory of the images is fused with our own story, until they cannot be separated.
In August 2007, after some medical studies, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. This movie is based on my memories of those days.
The communities of San Martin Tilcajete and San Antonio Arrazola in Oaxaca, Mexico are best known for being the main source of the "Alebrijes" (wood carving) in the state; a relatively new but powerful tradition in mexican folklore. In both communities, there is a family that claims they're father started this tradition in all the state of Oaxaca.
Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.
Rebeca and Isabel are two teenage girls living in Ecatepec, Mexico State. They know all about the problems of gender violence and crime that afflict their hometown, but they have a solution.
Jacinta lives with her mother Alma, who has now brought grandmother Soledad home, to look after her, as she's had a cerebral stroke. Jacinta lives Soledad's presence as an invasion of her intimacy, and feels jealous of the attention Alma pays to her grandma, leaving Alma more and more worn-out.
Helen lives with her son Bruno, but Bruno doesn't behave like a normal kid. She will have to overcome the mourning crisis to withstand reality.
Ricardo receives a visit from Daniel, his teenage cousin. Together they will explore the city and themselves.