Overwhelmed by fury and delight, a woman burns her clothes, her photographs, and souvenirs. She cuts her hair, and in front of a mirror, chooses a new name: Emma. From hereon, she fabricates a new life for herself.
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The people behind it
Martha Reyes Arias
Emma
Fermín Fernández
Abuelo Constancio
Gabriel Álvarez
Adolfo
An uncompromising and controversial short set in the Scandinavian suburbia on the hottest day of the summer. A sister reluctantly babysits her little brother. Two young boys catch her attention, and she makes a crucial decision.
A hustler named Oscar encounters both the light and dark of humanity in an alcohol fueled odyssey of sex, love, and death.
A sedated young jaguar dispassionately ruminates over his latest victims as well as the object of his affection in this mesmerizing video diary.
Anto travels to the depth of his most beloved memories with Julián. He must cross the threshold of the loss of a loved one.
After a diving excursion in the middle of the ocean, Lindsey is viciously sexually assaulted by Bruce, her instructor. She fends him of and they fall overboard into the water. Bruce grabs her and sinks her to the depths of the ocean. In this spiral of violence, she has no way to breathe.
Emre, frustrated with the problems in his life, undergoes a procedure to remove his negative emotions using a new technology that everyone is starting to adapt to. However, negative emotions are not the only thing he loses.
Madrid, Spain. A mutilated man, a war veteran, walks, leaning on a crutch, through the stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria, a place that still preserves in walls and buildings the terrifying traces of one of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War.
A 14 year old boy excitedly prepares for his first dance, but when his date arrives he's faced with a split-second decision.
A restless sleep and chlorophyll tinted dreams. A short visual experiment within a character's introspection.
Even though Migeum and Jeong-ah have been friends for many years, they always engage in the battle of nerves. The two head to Seoul together to meet their daughters but face an unexpected event during their journey.
A young boy, Bjørn, discovers on his 17th birthday that his problems with the girls might not be self-inflicted.
After a gay purge in a dystopian future, two couples who secretly meet once a week to reminisce about their former openly gay lives must decide if their clandestine meetings are worth risking their lives.
Kiko, a Japanese illustrator on assignment in France, gets suddenly overwhelmed by a strange new inspiration, while she realizes she's been spying on a gay couple on the beach next to the chapel where she's working. Obsessed by such a vision, she will continue spying on those men and drawing them secretly. These drawings will slowly push her towards an encounter that will change her life and break the barriers she created around her.
After he traveled the city by foot, a mathematician stuck his gaze onto the overpasses, cable-stayed bridges, and light beams randomly colliding at night. Tired of only seeing things on the ground, he decided to take off from a bridge, and hunt his “angles” while cruising through the sky.
Two young men share different points of view of the same sexual encounter in a public space.
Christian (12) and his best friend have been invited over to an older boy from school. There, he enters a mysterious world. It becomes an overwhelming experience - an essential step towards puberty.
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
This film unites the themes of war, religion and LGBTQ issues by wrapping them in the values and emotions of one complex family.
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Sofía, a well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches for deadly vengeance against the gang members who assaulted her deaf-mute sister.
After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.
The story about the dog of Eden. What happened in those first days of Creation that made Man and Dog so inseparable? The dog, as he lives through this curious world, encounters a strange creature; a human being named Adam - and with that discovers a new found connection to the world.
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.
Heather bumps into Carla, having not spoken to her in years, and presents her with a very unexpected proposition that could change both of their lives forever.