The Mechanics of Film

On my way to the cinema I recognised the remains of what once was

In Cañete there was a large movie theater in the center of town until the 1980s. At that time many things still worked. From a child's point of view, the short film transports us to an ordinary afternoon in Cañete, when people still happily went to the movies despite how difficult life was.

Cinema for Everyone

Cinema is an art that brings joy to millions of people around the world. However, it is difficult to create and produce, but there is an organization that teaches children how to make films so they can create the stories they dream of.

El cine que nos forma

Ali Ali

In a quiet Rajasthani village, young Ali clings to his cricket bat as his friends chase it. What starts as playful mischief reveals a film crew struggling to finish their shoot, blurring childhood and the fragile magic of cinema.

Amor y Cine

A film student, who denies being in love with his teacher, wonders what cinema is, what love is, and why we do what we do.

INDEPENDIENTE

Three Mexican filmmakers — Max del Río, Gabriela Ivette Sandoval, and Hugo Villaseñor Alcázar — share their processes and challenges around a single question: How can an independent film get seen? Through the eyes of insiders, the documentary reveals the complex journey behind making cinema visible in Mexico.

Potocinema

A personal exploration by the director, who uses cinema for a social, architectural, and artistic tour of San Luis Potosí, scattered with passages from the filmmaker´s own past.

Desiderius

Haiku por Ozziel

January The 28th

In Culiacán, Sinaloa, 11-year-olds Fabi, Josué, and Francisco bond over shared struggles in their elementary school and use a film workshop to express the violence that surrounds them. Six years later, they reunite to reflect on their experiences and the unsettling normalization of violence in their lives, exploring its impact on their futures.

Wildgnorance

Cinema Berlín

Wildgnorance 2: Time Paradox

Light

A university professor on the verge of divorce and a new life is confronted with a series of encounters that make him doubt his desires — and reality.

State of Matter

A troubled filmmaker struggles to watch his own film in a cinema inside his head, along with a made-up audience that negatively reacts to his film, State of Matter.

Through the Olive Trees

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

Empeliculados

Andrea

A transgender girl runs away from home and is invited to live with a strange photographer who pushes her to help him pay his debts.

La última escena

On her first student film shoot, Camila, the director, discovers that her boyfriend, Miguel, an actor, is cheating on her with his co-star. Upon learning of the infidelity, Camila questions her relationship with Miguel and her passion for filmmaking.

One Way Ticket

A young Cinephile girl, a wannabe gangster, a novice monk, and a temple kid join forces to make a movie about exploding mountains and burning huts.