Fernando Montes de Oca

A Lake

Rich is a thirty year-old filmmaker whose career seems to go nowhere. While wasting his days in Tequesquitengo, he falls in love with Daniela, a young woman who shares his place in the world, but not the same feelings. A weekend with her and her young friends will make him question his life so far and his concept of love.

Fragments of Oblivion

David, a successful therapist, is the creator of a never-before-used method in modern psychology: a device that allows him to alter the most painful memories of his patients. His wife, Lucia, is the victim of a strange disease that will shortly end her life. The solution for David's plight appears in the shape of Sofia, a patient of David's who asks him to use his machine to rewrite her entire life.

I Saw Juan Gabriel

Santiago, reluctant owner of a rifle, is approached by Don Ceballo for help in getting rid of a problematic dog. Meanwhile, their tragedy-stricken village witnesses the Spirit of late beloved singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel.

Concerto For Other Hands

David dreams of being a pianist like his father, José Luis, who believes it impossible due to his son's physical characteristics: short arms, hands with four fingers and limited hearing. Thanks to his tenacity, David shows him that he can play in his own way and together they begin a musical path that culminates with a new challenge for David: premiering the difficult concerto for piano and orchestra that his father composed for him.

Mi novia es la revolución

Sofía, who is about to turn 15, doesn't like to party. She has just moved to Las Arboledas after the separation of her parents and spends her days in the boring company of her younger sister. The monotony disappears when she meets Eva, a girl with a rebellious attitude with whom she will discover love and the disappointments that accompanies it, a turbulent journey full of assaults, illusions and rock and roll.

Moon Watching

Javier is ready to give important news to Carlos, his best friend and roommate. Carlos, on the other hand, gets home excited to see the brightest moon of the year. When they realize they are trapped inside the apartment, both find complications in achieving their objective.

Silvestre

What starts off as a family reunion to honor their father becomes a strife ridden meeting between siblings where a dark interest they share emerges.

The Movie

Tomás and Paco craft low-budget short films. They are good friends and they both share the same dream of becoming filmmakers. Tomás, being a 24 year-old loser, starts worrying about his uncertain future since he doesn’t have a job, he never went to college and he smokes a lot of weed, therefore becoming unreliable for everyone. Tomás sets up to make the first film from his hometown: Campeche, México. With this mission, he hopes to attain success, money and love, but in the process, he might endanger his friendship with Paco, his only true friend.

Una mano bajo la nieve y otras historias

An anthology of 7 Mexican short films, all created by 5 up-and-coming independent filmmakers, with a common thread: to explore themes of human relationships. In order, A Hand Beneath the Snow (Una mano bajo la nieve), Friendship (Amistad), The View from Up Above (La vista desde arriba), The Short Film (El cortometraje), Silvestre (Silvestre), Cocktails For Two (Cóctel para dos) and When I Hear You Sing, I Forget (Cuando te escucho cantar, olvido).

Una mano bajo la nieve y otras historias

An anthology of 7 Mexican short films, all created by 5 up-and-coming independent filmmakers, with a common thread: to explore themes of human relationships. In order, A Hand Beneath the Snow (Una mano bajo la nieve), Friendship (Amistad), The View from Up Above (La vista desde arriba), The Short Film (El cortometraje), Silvestre (Silvestre), Cocktails For Two (Cóctel para dos) and When I Hear You Sing, I Forget (Cuando te escucho cantar, olvido).

A Song About Whatever

Elena wants to record her song in a good studio. Desperate, she reconnects with an old privileged friend to ask for the money.

The Starter

Three men spend their days in a dying gas station, on the side of a wrecked road, on the outskirts of a small town. The three men resist and wait. They spend their time in fortuitous, random or miraculous things, hoping that something will free them for this situation. One day, the opportunity they were waiting for appears, in a different way than they imagined. Now, they will have to find out if they're ready to take advantage of it.

Last Sunsets on Earth

In Lisbon, from the height of the Torel viewpoint, the city expands as far as the eye can see making it the perfect place to think and remember. Through encounters with the people that inhabit the viewpoint in different ways, Daniela proposes a reflection on belonging to a new city, crafting a journey to her family memories. She imagines her mother and grandmother when they were her age, thinking about the first places where they lived.

The View From Up Above

A tarpaulin crew, hundreds of feet up in the air, risks their lives daily as part of their work, facing the weather, equipment shortages and systemic discrimination.

A Hand Beneath the Snow

Fabian, a fisherman from the beaches of northern Mexico, spends his days working on a boat under the sun, but his life takes a turn when terrible news arrive.

The Short Film

A day in the life of a trans actress, as she juggles her home life, her depressed brother and an amateur and somewhat trans-phobic short film shoot.

Roza

Héctor returns to his town in the Guatemalan highlands after a difficult migration of many years to the north. That trip has left him wounded. With a possessive mother, a young wife who despises him since her abandonment and a young son who does not know him, Héctor will try to adapt, proposing to live as before, repairing lost time, but he runs into a community that has already discarded him. His violent reaction breaks the fabric of his environment, and he discovers that since he left everything has changed, neither Héctor nor his community will be the same.

Don't Go to School Tomorrow

Fed up with the bullying from their classmates, Jorge and Emilio plan a shooting at their school.

Ana's Desire

Ana and her son Mateo live in a middle class apartment in Mexico City. The family routine takes a turn when Juan arrives to visit them after several years of absence. The reunion unleashes memories and secrets of their past that Ana will have to confront in order to find, at last, the peace of mind that has been lacking for so long.

The Guest

Alicia and Enrique are a young married couple somewhat distanced from each other. Their relationship is threatened when Carlota, a friend of Alicia's from long ago, comes to visit and stays with them for a while.

Light Years

Mateo, Belén, and María José, three siblings that have grown apart, are forced to meet again in order to close the deal to sell the house they spent their childhood in. Therefore, they will need to set off on a trip to their old town in their father's old car. But the road awaits them with obstacles that will force them to deal with their own buried conflicts.

Landscapes

Expelled from school, Alonso flees to Paris to meet his brother Pablo, who has cut all ties with his family and lives carelessly with his girlfriend Valeria. The sudden appearance of Alonso stirs Pablo's life exposing the brothers distant relationship and the lies in which he has built his new persona.

Two Times You

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

History Lessons

Verónica, a middle-aged highschool history teacher, leads a non eventful life: she has grownup children, grandchildren and a less than perfect marriage. This dynamic seems to be the only thing she can hold on to, as she battles a terminal illness. As she reluctantly accepts her fate, she meets Eva, an irreverent and misunderstood new student who unknowingly injects some life and enthusiasm back into her and provides her with the tools to deal with her destiny.

The Incident

Two parallel stories about people trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road... for over 35 years.

Jacob's Ark

Jacob, a young man who claims to be the bond between an alien intelligence and mankind, asks a documentary filmmaker to capture his experiences as witness for his actions. Soon, the truth might be revealed. Is Jacobo imagining it all, or is there a more disturbing reality?

Cocktails for two

Gustavo, a defeated musician, returns home late, after a night of excess and partying. When he enters his apartment, he finds that Catalina, his girlfriend, had prepared dinner for them. But instead of going to sleep with his girlfriend, he prefers to continue partying. The following events will reveal their relationship is not what it seems, and will confront the couple with an ongoing co-dependency spiral...

Chronicles from the Other North

For almost three years, a foreigner installed in different sites in Chihuahua (northern Mexico), a small trailer called "La cabina de los sueños" (The cabin of dreams). An installation open to anyone who wanted to share a dream. One of those that remain engraved in the memory, with the same intensity of a recollection. With the aim of starting to finally recount the story of humanity in its sleep. And to find in that journey, the key to his own story. A story that has tied him, mysteriously, to that place.

Beings

In a dystopian future gripped by water and medicine shortages, inventor Lucio races against time to repair his malfunctioning medical robot—a last hope for survival in a crumbling world.

Angeles FC

Christian, a former organized crime member, seeks redemption by founding Ángeles Soccer, a team that trains kids and women on a once crime-ridden lot in one of Mexicali's most dangerous neighborhoods, aiming to rebuild the community he once harmed.

Kokoro: Corazón de Ciudad

Film anthology that assembles stories about heartbreak, friendship, first love and self-love involving modern and complex relationships in Mexico City, where different young and old people go through different stages of personal growth in a magical, loving, toxic and sometimes even surreal city, where it is just as easy to run into other characters who live similar situations, as it is to meet the love of your life.