FILMS
DÍAS BORROSOS / BLURRY DAYS
Marie Benito
Fiction - 103' - DCP
In the loneliness of the pandemic, Emilia is seeking to become a mother while her neighbor Felipe, an old man in his eighties, is at the end of his life. But uncertain fate brings them an unexpected move that challenges their plans.
Festivals:
FIC Morelia - Official selection
Black Canvas FCC - Official selection
NÓMADAS DE LA 57 / NOMADS OF THE 57
Documentary - 95' - DCP
Luz de Luna became a truck driver fleeing a violent marriage. Now she travels the same routes as many other truck drivers, facing the multiple risks of Mexico's highways. A journey from the cab and its commonplaces will give us a glimpse into this invisible yet harsh reality that these workers have to endure to bring us the goods we enjoy in the big cities.
Funds:
Los Cabos Film Festival Gabriel Figueroa's Film Fund: Films in Development and Work in Progress, 2021.
Festivals:
FIC Morelia
VETERANO / VETERAN
(DEVELOPMENT)
Fiction - 95' - DCP
Dani is a veteran of the Afghanistan war who is being deported for the second time from California to Tijuana. After two years in jail for crossing illegally, he returns to the country that now only retains the name, the appearance and a familiar distant past.
MARKETS:
Series Platino Iber Series
SI NO ARDEMOS CÓMO ILUMINAR LA NOCHE
(POSTPRODUTION)
Fiction - DCP
CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN COSTA RICA- MEXICO
Laura is a pre-adolescent who has to move to a conservative town at the mountain, where a femicide has just occurred. There, she meets Daniela, the victim's best friend, who guides her into new things: soccer games, motorcycle escapades, bathing in the river. Together, they manage to navigate the adversities of an environment that sexualizes their bodies in the midst of Laura's sexual awakening.
PROGRAMMES:
Selected for "La Fabrique Cinéma", Cannes' program.
EL MAR ABIERTO / DELIGHTFUL NIGHTMARES
(DEVELOPMENT)
Fiction - DCP
Baltazar, renowned journalist must carry out an investigation of a wave of disappearances unleashed in a port. The grotesque events reveal a criminal plot against young women. The clues lead to Blake, a sinister criminal, and his dark ship that silently lurks at the sea. In search of the truth, Baltazar must fight against his own voices and fears, which are transforming him into the same evil that haunts him.
Prizes:
Winner of development fund IMCINE (Mexican Institute of Cinematography)
PAPAMÓVIL
(POSTPRODUTION)
FICTION - 105' -DCP
Sylvain Estibal
CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN FRANCE - BELGIUM - MEXICO
ESTANISLAO
Alejandro Guzmán
Fiction - 90' - DCP
Mateo’s failures lead him back to his family’s shabby clothing factory to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. After losing everything, he must confront and ultimately reconcile with his alcoholic father and the dangerous half-bird half-man monster who is locked away inside the factory.
MARKETS:
Los Cabos goes to Cannes, Ventana del Cine Madrileño, Match Me! Locarno, Blood Window; Ventana Sur
Festivals:
Tallinn Pöff Black Nights -Competition - Rebels With a Cause
FICUNAM - Official selection
D'A BARCELONA - Official selection
FICM - Special Screening
LOS DÉBILES / THE WEAK ONES
Raúl Rico & Eduardo Giralt.
Fiction - 87 - DCP
Victor has a scuffle with Selfie, a 13- year-old boy who is part of a gang. Hours later he finds his beloved dogs murdered. He gets his gun and begins a journey on board his pick-up truck on a path that will take him across the hostile land of Sinaloa, in Mexico’s Pacific Coast. In his search for clues he will meet disturbing and eccentric characters who may or may not tell the truth about the whereabouts of the young criminal. At the end of his journey he will come to terms with his weakness and will learn to bear the injustice just as he bears the sun on the heat of the day.
Festivals:
International Film Festival of Berlin, Official Selection, Forum , 2018;
FICUNAM, WINNER Best Feature Film , México,
2018.
DISTANCIAS CORTAS / WALKING DISTANCE
Alejandro Guzman
Fiction - 108' - DCP
A heart-warmin story of Fede who discovers his passion to photography and his two new friends help him to find a way from his loneliness and four walls of his apartment. The three friends -an obese Fede, His brither-in-law Ramón and Paulo, a lonely teenager who loves comic books - form a friendship that completely changes their lives.
Festivals & Prizes:
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, Saitama, Japan -Best Picture;
Golden Rooster & 100 Flowers Film Festival, China -Best Director/Best Actor;
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal, Canada -Special Mention;
Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, Germany- Ecumenic Prize;
Filmfest Frankfurt International, Germany -Audience Award;
Duhok International Film Festival, Iraq -Audience Award;
AMACC, México -Best Supporting Actrees;
Chicago IFF, USA; Rome Film
Festival, Italy; Stockholm IFF, Sweden; Tallin Black Nigths, Estonia; Goa IFF, India; Havana
IFF, Cuba; FICG, Mexico; Fajr International Film Festival, Teheran, Iran, Festival de Cine de Bogotá, Colombia; Hola
Mexico IFF LA, USA; Montevideo Film Festival, Uruguay; Festival Internacional de Cinema de Tarragona, Spain; St. Paul
International Film Festival, USA; Febiofest Praha, Czech Republic; Santa Barbara IFF, USA; Peliculatina,
Belgium; Sydney Latin American Film Festival, Australia; American Festival Manchester, England.