In a small place in the Highlands of Chiapas, a Tsotsil girl who will give birth for the first time, invokes the memories of the women who preceded her in order to face this moment. Amidst the fears and uncertainties of giving life, she discovers motherhood from the cosmovision of her world.
MEXICO
VIOLENT BUTTERFLIES
A graffiti artist and the singer of a punk band, meet in a context of profound social crisis and discontent.
Bound by their idealist and revolutionary minds seek a world of justice and they are willing to fight for it.
Music and street art, unite them and serve as their weapons. Naive and innocent, they are unaware of the power of impunity and injustice until they fall victims to police brutality, awakening the unimaginable rage of those who have nothing left to lose.
Ch’ul Be, Sacred Path
“Ch’ul be” delves into the Tsotsil sacred path, exploring ancient collective commitments that sustain the cycle of life in community. In San Andres Larrainzar, everyone is responsible for the collective well-being, but few are chosen to follow the path of serving the gods. ”Ch’ul be” is the path of Martha and Diego, and of Román and his son Tino. It is a journey from the everyday to the divine, from the individual to the collective, to ensure that knowledge is not lost and the cycle is not broken.
Hunger
A child is being tormented by a voracious well demanding food from him. But as he proves unable to satisfy its hunger, he drags himself to find another way of feeding it.
Malos Aires
The reunion of an Argentinean ex-couple during the lockdown of Madrid, 2020. In a single night re-emerge the complexity and instability of the human emotions.
Bird in Captivity
Roxana, a 14-year-old married girl, runs away from her violent marriage. In the search for her freedom, she will face the social customs of her environment that will judge her. She will have to face her two facets: the childish and the adult.