Elsa Reyes

The Son of His Father

Gabriel, a devoted and loving single father, is thrown into turmoil when his mother announces she is selling the house they lived in for years. This news stirs up deep emotions and reopens the void left by the absence of his own father, Arturo.

Tijuana Bible

Holed up in Tijuana on a path to self-destruction, an Iraq veteran seeks deliverance by helping a young Mexican woman navigate the underworld in a quest for her long-lost brother.

Two Times You

A unique relationship between two women that transcends time and space.

Leona

Ariela, a traditional Jew, meets Ivan, a young man who is not Jewish with whom she begins a secret relationship despite her family beliefs.

Fireflies

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.

Polar Bear

Heriberto gives a lift to a school reunion to two friends (Flor and Trujillo). In the way, we find out that they were his worst bullies.

Cheers to the Newlyweds!

Armed with plenty of defiant optimism, this elderly woman prepares a birthday party, grapples with her husband and even rescues a wedding that is about not to happen.

The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park

The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park is a film that celebrates the everyday life of a group of Indigenous people, exiles from Canadian reserves, who, over a fleeting summer, hang out in a contested park in Vancouver. Through direct participation in the filmmaking process, the day to day becomes a ceremonial space in the ongoing confrontation against law and order.

Warehoused

An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently nothing ever happens.

The Similars

Eight people experience a strange phenomenon while waiting for a bus at a remote station on a rainy October night.

Asteroid

Cristina returns to her hometown Cuernavaca after a seven year absence. The bittersweet reunion with her brother Mauricio unravels old and tragic memories. Cristina, determined to heal their relationship, collapses its fragile stability.

The Empty Hours

Stuck managing his uncle's deserted motel on Veracruz's lonely coast, 17-year-old Sebastian finds solace in unexpected company. Miranda, a beautiful yet seemingly forlorn guest, whiles away the hours waiting for her perpetually late lover. As conversations between them blossom into a connection neither anticipated, a forbidden spark ignites. Will they succumb to the fiery temptation of a fleeting passion, or will they cage their desires for a life dictated by circumstance?

Workers

Lidia is a responsible and dedicated maid for a hugely wealthy, elderly Tijuana matron who loves only her pet whippet. Rafael is a quiet and dignified janitor who buys a new pair of shoes to celebrate his imminent retirement from the large corporate facility where he's worked for 30 years. When Lidia's boss dies, leaving everything to her dog, and Rafael's plans get derailed, they both turn to criminal subterfuge to get what their harsh lot in life has denied them.

Black Box

After Emiliano dies from poisoning, a vault in Zürich opens to reveal a video tape of edited fragments from surveillance cameras that captured the most important day in Emiliano's life. That day he learned that what matters most in life are not beginnings or endings, what matters most is one defining moment: his peculiar encounter with Juan when he recruited him to assassinate a former presidencial candidate.

Black Box

After Emiliano dies from poisoning, a vault in Zürich opens to reveal a video tape of edited fragments from surveillance cameras that captured the most important day in Emiliano's life. That day he learned that what matters most in life are not beginnings or endings, what matters most is one defining moment: his peculiar encounter with Juan when he recruited him to assassinate a former presidencial candidate.

Nesio

It is a light and amusing story about Nemesio, a small time drug dealer who has never managed to get away from his mother or his childhood traumas, and carries on his back the stigma of a born loser. This he struggles to overcome, but finds it impossible. By intent or otherwise, Nesio becomes involved in a homicide and an impossible love with a masked woman wrestler. All of this framed by downtown Mexico City.

Adán Y Eva (Todavía)

Having partaken in Eden not only of the tree of knowledge, but of the tree of life eternal as well, Adam and Eve became immortal and now find themselves wandering throughout the world in a journey of extreme sexuality and boredom.

The Luck Of John

After the Cristero War in rural Mexico, a carpenter must carry the body of his young son across a devastated landscape haunted by the devil.