Encounter 2019 ( 10)

Arcelia takes care of her lifetime partner Lulu. Julian, a teenager exploring his identity, lives under the watch of his conservative mother. A sudden event will draw an unexpected path between the old couple and Julian.

N/A N/A ( 4)

A Six Dollar Cup of Coffee 2018

Through the eyes of a Tseltal family, our story connects a cooperative in Chiapas, which struggles to market its coffee as a finished product outside of the conventional market, with the trend of specialty coffee, third-wave coffee shops and Seattle, United States. Understanding coffee as a way to protect their identity, their land and the right to live in better conditions, our characters seek to sell their product abroad while a plague, which destroys coffee plantations from South America unstoppable, could mean the destruction of coffee in the entire continent.

The Skin I Live In 2011 ( 7.493)

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Pain and Glory 2019 ( 7.382)

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.

Parallel Mothers 2021 ( 6.8)

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

A Six Dollar Cup of Coffee 2018

Through the eyes of a Tseltal family, our story connects a cooperative in Chiapas, which struggles to market its coffee as a finished product outside of the conventional market, with the trend of specialty coffee, third-wave coffee shops and Seattle, United States. Understanding coffee as a way to protect their identity, their land and the right to live in better conditions, our characters seek to sell their product abroad while a plague, which destroys coffee plantations from South America unstoppable, could mean the destruction of coffee in the entire continent.

Después de Ucrania: Relatos de una Cobertura 2023 ( 2)

Four journalists talk about their experiences and share their testimonies of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Mi organillo 2023

A journey to a mysterious place on the outskirts of Mexico City where birth, life and death dance to the same tune. A short film that will turn into 5,000 postcards and travel through the mail for years. A singular project by Valentin Merz with Locarno Film Festival's BaseCamp and Swiss Post.