Adrian Garcia was born on February 24, 1943 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He is an actor and writer, known for La Pandilla en apuros (1976), Mi abuelo se quiere casar and Santa Cristal (2001).
Mercedes’ fantasy turns into a nightmare. Juan’s greatest fear takes the shape of a strange man entering his house. The city has fallen into chaos and anarchy, so it's going to be difficult to get some ice for the drinks; but tonight, Mercedes is an object of desire to men, so nothing else matters.
Adela and her baby move to Madrid in search of a new start after a tough separation. Antonia is a shop owner with three adult daughters. The film is divided into five chapters revolving around their health, work, relationships and money.
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
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An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
When deadly attacks from a nearby forest beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a blind army veteran to discover what the residents are hiding.
Sofia, an insecure young woman, begins babysitting two troublesome siblings that turn her job into a complete living hell. That is until a devilish presence starts messing with the trio and they must band together to fight the demon away.
After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.
Fresh out of prison after drugging the matcha latte of her pageant competition, a young and accomplished beauty queen is on the hunt for her ex-boyfriend upon discovering he's robbed her home.
Antonio, in what seems to be his last days of life, remembers a Holy Week from his childhood, in a remote village in Cordoba. Seven days that made him the man he is, and the child he cries to become again. A letter from an adult mind, in memory of the past.
Luis Miguel, a 30-35 year old man, unemployed, lonely and with a boring life. He realizes that his Wednesdays are disappearing, or worse, someone is stealing them, and oddly enough there is an association behind all this trafficking in his days. After discovering it, Luis Miguel turns his sad life upside down and begins to fight against the association.
In Mexico, the war against drug traffic has collected more than 90,000 lives. As a result, thousands of orphans are left alone. By far, this casualties are larger than the ones from the Vietnam War. Nevertheless, the mexican youth still wants to follow this path thanks to a false promise: the narcos always succeed. Jose, the son of one of the main initiators of drug trafficking in Mexico and mentor of two of the biggest drug Kingpins in the world, tells his side of the story.
A trigger-happy Nationalist fears retribution from the son of a man he executed. To mollify the boy's anger, he takes a drastic step: he keeps constant watch over the fig tree the boy has planted at his father's gravesite. As the years pass, the man's lonely vigil makes him a tourist attraction, much to the chagrin of his former colleagues.
A short documentary depicting the story of young transgender boy Ekai Lersundi, who took his own life in 2018 after struggling with the bureaucracy surrounding hormone replacement therapy assignment.
Giselle and Emilio, a young couple of photographers, travel to Peña de Lobos to fulfill a plan they had together for a long time. After being unfinished, Giselle returns to find a way to fulfill the plan and leave her past behind.
When former Green Beret Jorge Díaz survives a brutal attack that kills his family, he sets out for justice. With the help of the mysterious Mr. Smith, he recruits a team of highly trained young survivors, all victims of organized crime, to take down their hunters. Together, they’ll deliver justice on their own terms in a world where the law has failed them.
In an alternate reality where the decline of nations has given rise to corporatist regimes, any trace of culture or tradition is suppressed by these new leaders to prevent the masses from reclaiming a national identity. However, rebel cells have emerged to counteract this agenda.
Daniel and Gero have a relationship that is getting worse. Meanwhile, Jaime, Daniel's best friend, can't take it anymore and has a confession to make. Daniel must make a difficult decision: choose Jaime's new love or try to fix his problems with Gero. Sometimes, what you decide to do doesn't turn out to be the best thing to do.
After getting into some trouble, John decides to go to an old friend to get some help.
A filmmaker films himself and some surrounding events with his small digital camera during the months of spring. The apparent order of the days falls apart when the images manifest the coexistence of multiple potential 'I's. They are all illusory and, despite this, they turn into necessary bridges in the way to a true identity.
Two friends prepare for a journey.
Edition of a book of interviews with filmmaker Joseph Morder, the author of over 1200 films and of the longest cinematic journal there is, including his biography since the late 1960s until today, his ideas on cinema and his relation with other filmmakers.
In the dead of night, young Youtuber influencer Amber and her TikToker boyfriend Johnny set up an occult summoning ritual for an upcoming online livestream. Amber is adamant she will gain a popularity boost for executing such a concept, though Johnny has doubts about its authenticity. As the stream begins, the couple sit across from each other, pentagram in between, and chant the words of the spirit, Noman, three times. However, Johnny doesn't finish the third chant, then suddenly, the candles and power go out. They soon discover supernatural forces are at play, leading to deadly results.
A cheerless petrol station buffet. A woman creates for herself her own dream world, far away. A stranger only wants some petrol.
Experimental exploration of memory, identity and queer desire. It recreates fragmented and romanticised stories of a childhood in rural Mexico as told by the filmmaker’s father. These disjointed vignettes are interwoven with queered reenactments of scenes from popular culture. The filmmaker casts himself in the old Mexican films and American Westerns he grew up watching with his family in California. He appears as the romantic lead opposite the male actors, including Pedro Infante, Mexican national hero and the filmmaker’s childhood crush. By centring queer desire in his family’s history, Garcia Gomez validates his childhood experiences while challenging popular representations of masculinity as well as traditional notions of power and vulnerability.
Ascensor is an exploration of grief, longing, and mysticism through a queer lens. It documents a syncretic ritual that culls from the magical reverberations in Mexican culture to process the unexpected loss of a dear friend. The repetition of the ritual eventually leads to the transcendence of physical space, transforming unrelenting ache into shining resilience.
"Primavera" is a frenetic experimental animation that documents the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests as they intersect in springtime Brooklyn. Shot during isolation on a phone, the video explores the effects of imposed distance on touch and intimacy, the proximity of an invisible virus and invisible deaths, and the revolt against the racist, corrupt systems that commodify, exploit and render their most vulnerable citizens disposable.