Costume & Make-Up
This is Arturo's tale, a coming of age story about a boy who tries to find and accept his sexual identity. It takes place in a small town in the state of Zacatecas during the 90's, and explores the stigma the homosexual community lived during the HIV crisis.
This documentary rescues the valuable work of Martha Colmenares, an indigenous woman from the Zapotec highlands, who in the 1980s filmed the life and customs of her own community, becoming a pioneer of indigenous documentaries. And for the first time, her forgotten story, for forty years, will no longer be invisible.
Nestor wants to go live with his sister in the US, nevertheless, he is the only one who lives with his mother and he can't leave her alone.
The stories, music and rituals of Tinku culture in the north of Potosí in Bolivia, are the perfect excuse for director Nina Wara Carrasco to return to the idyllic place of her childhood, where she faces the uneasiness of the passage of time and uprooting. In the Whisper of the Wind explores rituals where music is a balm and a link with the mystic.
An intimate portrait of women who transform inherited pain into memory and memory into a form of healing. When the women of a family dare to speak out, the possibility emerges to heal together and seek justice.
Tere travels to sell her napkins with her daughter Flor, who loses one of her new shoes. Tere is forced to leave her alone for a moment, a fact that changes her life completely.
On a gloomy Sunday in Mexico City, three friends in their twenties look for a female friend that disappears at an after-party. As they believe the worse could be happening, and while confronting characters and situations that represent a fraction of the problems of contemporary Mexico, their dreams, concerns and fears come to light.
A 41-year-old dairy farm worker in upstate New York, relies on toughness, solitude, and mistrust to survive long shifts of work. Then, a 21-year-old single mother forces her to reexamine what is important to her.
