Santiago de la Paz

A History of Love and War

This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer faces trial for Mexico's violent history. The fourth feature from Santiago Mohar Volkow, Una historia de amor y guerra centres on real estate baron Pepe Sánchez-Campo, whose mega-mall development brings him into conflict with local guerrillas. For once, bribery and a call to Daddy might not be enough to save Pepe – a character more grotesque than the telenovela unfolding around him. Trying to sabotage Pepe's marriage to Constanza, her cousin and lover Teo records Pepe cheating. The resulting chaos precipitates in a burlesque bloodbath involving treachery, talking animals, colonial history and bartering in the afterlife.

Presencias

A man who loses his wife and goes to seclude himself in a cabin in the woods, where strange things happen.

Los Años

Los Años is a meditation about time, memory and mortality through our representation in images and our lives' rituals. This short highlights our abstract way of understanding time and collective experiences.

El ocaso de las diosas

The Mignon sisters try to grow closer and rebuild their relationship between old grudges and terminal cancer. Silvia, the eldest, understands that memory is not static and to heal old wounds, it is necessary to do so from the present. She accompanies Judith, her younger sister, while she fights her illness. The documentary is a portrait of two sisters confronting the concepts of sisterhood and mortality.

Lenin Park

Antoin, Yesuán and Karla share a common memory of their last moment together in the amusement park Parque Lenin. When they lost their mother, four years ago, their paths changed radically. Antoin moved to France to pursuit his dream of becoming a professional opera singer, meanwhile Yesuán and Karla stayed in Cuba, trying to consolidate their new family roles.