Tótem | ESP | ENG | 12min | In December 2023, Tótem was shortlisted in the International Film category of the 2024 Oscar Awards. At its premiere in the official selection at the Berlinale, Tótem won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury; since then, it has won 30 international awards | La actriz, guionista, productora y cineasta mexicana Lila Avilés ha dirigido dos largometrajes: La camarista (2018) y Tótem (2023). Ambas películas han representado a México en los Premios Oscar. Un cortometraje sobre una cantante de ópera podría convertirse en la tercera película de Lila Avilés.
ENG | ESP | 11min | Epitafio es una película insólita, sin escenografía, filmada en alta montaña durante un mes, únicamente en exteriores | With creativity and mastership, filmmakers Yulene Olaizola and Rubén Imaz tell the birth of Mexico from a new and refreshing perspective.
ENG | ESP | 14min | Radical (Christopher Zalla, 2023) won the Favorite Festival Award at Sundance. Eugenio Derbez stars and co-produces this moving film based on true events | Con una puesta en cámara similar a un documental, Radical cuenta la historia del maestro Sergio Juárez Correa y sus métodos innovadores de aprendizaje.
Mexiwood (Global Mexican Filmmakers) | ENG | ESP | 26min | Over the past three decades, dozens of innovative Mexican artists have consolidated an appealing global presence, mobilizing their worldwide prestige in Mexico’s favor | Iñárritu, Cuarón, Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal y Karla Souza son “embajadores culturales” de su país de origen.
Mexican Oscars | Three Amigos | ENG | ESP | 10min | Mexican filmmakers Cuarón, Iñárritu and Del Toro won five US Academy Awards for Best Director almost in a row | Con cinco películas, los Three Amigos reúnen un impresionante total de 52 nominaciones a los Premios Oscar. No hay otro caso remotamente similar entre directores de ninguna nacionalidad.
Mexicanidad cosmopolita de Guillermo del Toro | ENG | ESP | 24min | Gracias a su impresionante producción audiovisual, su carisma, su destacada presencia mediática, Guillermo del Toro es hoy uno de los mexicanos más queridos dentro y fuera del país | Throughout his career, Guillermo del Toro has promoted a vibrant image of Mexicanness: innovative, cosmopolitan, inclusive, collaborative and forward-looking.
Obāchan | ENG | ESP | 10min | In 1941 Fuyu Kiyota (Obāchan) arrived in Mexico to marry a man she did not know: she never returned to Japan. Eight decades later, Mexican director Nicolasa Ruiz made the reverse journey to film a documentary about memory, migration, love and becoming.
499 | ENG | ESP | 9min | Rodrigo Reyes is a recipient of the prestigious Sundance Documentary Fund and the Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund | 499 mezcla ficción narrativa y hechos reales para imaginar el regreso de un conquistador a México, medio milenio después de la derrota de Tenochtitlan.
Home is Somewhere Else | ENG | ESP | 10min | Animating documentaries is a suggestive and powerful resource: Flee (Rasmussen, 2021), When We Were Bullies (Rosenblatt, 2021) and Losers (Duzyi, 2019) | En Mi casa está en otra parte (2022), Carlos Hagerman y Jorge Villalobos enlazan tres historias sobre familia, migración y esperanza.
Maite Alberdi | ENG | ESP | 12min | Entre los países del mundo, Chile destaca por la belleza de sus documentales. Maite Alberdi fue nominada al Oscar por El agente topo (2020) | Chile has a powerful documentary tradition, from Patricio Guzmán to Maite Alberdi. In The Ethernal Memory (2023, nominated for the Oscars 2024), Alberdi explores the unconditional love of Paulina Urrutia and Augusto Góngora in the face of Alzheimer’s disease.
Hitchcock by Guillermo del Toro | ENG | ESP | 5min | In 1990 Guillermo del Toro published his first book, Alfred Hitchcock: a prophetic forecast three years before the release of Cronos, Del Toro’s first feature film.| En este libro, con solamente 25 años de edad, Guillermo del Toro analiza las innovaciones implementadas por Hitchcock durante medio siglo de producción fílmica, anticipando paralelismos con su carrera.
Princesas | ENG | ESP | 11min | Las protagonistas de Guillermo del Toro son autónomas, activas, inteligentes y subversivas | In The Shape of Water (2017), Elisa is the engine of change of every single action that happens in the film.
Monsters | ENG | ESP | 14min | Guillermo del Toro is a revolutionary filmmaker who subverts traditional ideas about “monsters”, intolerance and “the Different Other” | El excelente actor estadounidense Doug Jones ha protagonizado seis largometrajes dirigidos por Guillermo del Toro.