Aleix Pitarch

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.

Chance leads Eiko to live in Barcelona. There she meets a series of characters who, like her, also live between two worlds.

Teo survives, isolated in a house constantly besieged by a horde of stray dogs. It seems destiny has no other plans, than keeping Theo there, until one day something obscure happens. Canis is a story about fears and how we can face them. A story about coming of age. A story of finding reasons to fight.

Based on a true story of abuse and humiliation, narrated as if it were an animated thriller where the voice and the image confront each other, forming peculiar contrasts and creating a suspense that takes our breath away.