Juan Manuel Figueroa

Don't Leave The Kids Alone

A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.

Luna negra

The story of three brothers arises between dreams, ideals and frustrations in the context of a community rebellion to defend their river from a construction company.

Unhappily Ever After

María José and Alfredo are about to celebrate their 20th anniversary and their children give them a trip to the hotel where they celebrated their honeymoon, but a spell will make them repeat the same day.

Estanislao

After 15 years, Mateo returns to the old textile factory to say goodbye to his recently deceased mother. Incidentally, he will have to spend time with his alcoholic father, whom he can't stand.

Traición

Felix (56) a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco so see how drawbridges rise for ships to go through. Misela (23), whose romantic partners die if they make her cry, seeks comfort in her mother and wants to know where she is buried. They are father and daughter, and one must betray the other in order to go on living.

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.

Walking Distance

A heart-warming story of Fede who discovers his passion to photography and his two new friends help him to find a way from his loneliness and four walls of his apartment. The three friends - an obese Fede, his brother-in-law Ramón and Paulo, a lonely teenager who loves comic books - form a friendship that completely changes their lives.

Portraits of a Search

In the Mexican narco-war, thousands of mothers search for their missing sons and daughters. In Portraits of a Search, the stories of Natividad, Guadalupe and Margarita intertwine to convey the different forms of confronting the search and uncertainty: one turns to the FBI, another obtains the Nation´s president´s personal promise, and the other tries to return to her routines so as to save her grandson. A portrait of Mexico today.

Marcelo

Marcelo feels he's found the incarnation of his favorite superhero in Julio, his troublesome and eccentric neighbor whose biggest dream is to become a porn star, but Mrs. Martha, who still treats her son Marcelo like a kid, will never permit such a relationship to flourish. Emotionally disturbed, she will try to protect the only thing she's got left in the world: her son.

Café Paraíso

Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.

Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio

Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories of delinquents inhabiting the city’s streets, their alliances with high ranking police officials that allowed them to operate, the betrayals that followed, and the price they ended up paying.

Tin Man

The night guard of a big warehouse gives every night food and a place to sleep to a couple of homeless: and old man a little girl. After having a nightmare, the guard feels guilty because of the terrible things he does to the little girl.

Tin Man

The night guard of a big warehouse gives every night food and a place to sleep to a couple of homeless: and old man a little girl. After having a nightmare, the guard feels guilty because of the terrible things he does to the little girl.

Tin Man

The night guard of a big warehouse gives every night food and a place to sleep to a couple of homeless: and old man a little girl. After having a nightmare, the guard feels guilty because of the terrible things he does to the little girl.

The Other José

José, a taxi driver in Mexico City, loses his temper at the slightest thing. After causing a lot of trouble over a woman who doesn´t love him, he tries to take his own life. However, saved by a stranger, José learns his lesson and changes. He sets out to show the world and the woman he loves that he is not whom he used to be.

El día menos pensado

What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are reluctant to leave their home and who defend their last drops of water at gunpoint.

Pulque Song

Portrait of daily life and its inhabitants at the pulquería “La Pirata”. A homage to all those who drink pulque, to ranchera music, to the “barrio” and to pulque.

Sheep Xing

Rose's absence suddenly emptied the meaning that Damian had given to his own life. To evade the painful trance that grief imposes on him, Father Damián begins to flee. Thus he meets Bruno, a small-time thug, who demands the money that he left in the Father's custody in the past under threat of death.