XOCHIMILCO

Three Spanish conquistadors, Captain Diego de Ordaz, Gonzalo and Pedro, march to the summit of the great volcano Popocatepetl. It is an arduous walk; they face the strength of nature and the fear of the unknown. Yet their biggest obstacle could be within them, as they doubt about the purpose of the conquest of the New World.

Sebastian is a 28 year old painter. His most recent drawings are mainly squids, scientifically known as Cephalopods (head and legs). He is particularly attracted to the gigantic squid; a monstrous almost fantastic animal about which little is known. A few months ago, Sebastian´s girlfriend died, leading him to travel to Mexico City, where he hopes to reconnect with his lost roots, which perhaps will provide him with the emotional stability that he needs to keep on living.

Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn't have, spirits that materialize before him as his real family. Alcoholic and schizophrenic, surviving on a daily basis. But deep down he feels the time has come to regain what he lost several decades ago, when he brought the oil curse to his own island, the lush Ciudad del Carmen. At the same time at the mysterious Estero Pargo, the goddess Ixchel has been reborn and seeks to mate with humans in order to continue the cycle of life.

At the close of a special day, family ties are shown to be fragile before the shared feeling concerning an important abscence when the sensation of absence. Uncle Manuel, a very peculiar man is determined to help his sibling's adolescent children and his brother-in-law, an unemployed union leader. Mom's house has now become a place where the family could vanish due to a world of broken dreams.

Oil-covered fish meet skateboards and the War on Terror in this razor-sharp satire of media, government, and the tycoons who take advantage of the system. Inspired by found sound of kids talking about oil and gas, hand-drawn with love and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship, in collaboration with the Mexican Film Institute.

Flat earthers and skaters abduct a Mexican version of the yellow family in a trash grind rhythm.

Lauro discovers, using the tap of his own bath tub, how to alter time and events. What Lauro could'n't know was that the different seasons would end up chewing him down.

CLINAMEN is a project about “the fall”: as the width of the movement and as a figure of the contemporary.

This animated short film explores everyday objects (a shoe, a laptop, a chair, a fridge, an animal skull ...) using the deconstruction. The title is a wordplay that combines two verbs in spanish: to know (saber) and to see (ver). This short film was made with part of the images produced for the exhibition saVer which includes interactive installation, silk-screen printings and sculptures.

A little girl with a great affinity for bees pushes the limits in order to protect her community.