Carolina Politi
Claudia is a young woman who spends her days working in an old bookstore. One day, after finding a forgotten letter in a book, she starts an adventure to deliver it.
Ariela, a traditional Jew, meets Ivan, a young man who is not Jewish with whom she begins a secret relationship despite her family beliefs. This new experience allows Ariela to explore the world that was outside her community bubble. Ariela is discovered and threatened. Maintaining her relationship would mean leaving her life as a Jew and losing forever contact with her family and friends.
When Leonardo meets Aura at school, he also takes his first steps in the weird and unexpected world of love.
'Flores silvestres' follows Marta, a woman suffering from an eternal pain she expresses through silences, lack of communication, and unspoken issues –and yet, it is there. The camera observes nature and physical spaces and provides a special density to them, as if they were silent partners in her mourning for something she lost forever. Her friendship with a young man from the area creates an interest triggered by its ambiguity: is there s sexual tension, or rather she sees in him a memory of what she lost? Is there an attraction or does the young man stand for the ghost of that past that still exists in Marta’s everyday life? Flores silvestres leaves these matters unresolved, because they may not have a clear answer. As if, in the end, pain blurs everything out.
An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned factories. In the film Mexican police officer Blanca Bravo is sent to Cuidad Juarez to investigate and comes to learn realities of these women's lives, as well as the truth about a police force and local power structure embodied by entrepreneur Mickey Santos that has ceased to care.
Joan is about to leave behind everything he knows, including his mother, to lunch his adult life. The inminent separation sparks emotions that collide throughout and otherwise a normal day. As the tension between them continues to rise, a leaky faucet in the kitchen won't stop dripping.
