Juan Manuel Barreda Ruiz

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.

A man carries a dead body of another man into a mass grave.

Toño accompanies Sara, his best friend's girlfriend, to a rock concert. Unable to reach a bus to return to their city, they are forced to spend the night in a cheap hotel room. The intoxication and euphoria of having seen their favorite group make them feel an illusory affinity.

Five AM, the streets still empty; Puebla seems like a ghost town. Office buildings wait in silence, factories lie in apparent quiet, churches closed, machines asleep, stores have their shutters down—until like an alarm clock, underscoring the city's deep religiosity, the bell towers ring out as if answering one another, waking the people. The symphony begins. A contemporary portrait of Puebla, contrasting modern development with its heritage and the everyday lives of its inhabitants. Inspired by avant-garde film theories, such as the urban symphonies of Vertov and Ruttmann, the film captures the essence moving forwards. This documentary aims to show the daily life of a city that grows every day as it pursues its vision of modernity, gradually forgets its colonial past and discards what no longer fits into new models of life in Poblano society.

The daily life of a woman in her eighties, who rides her bicycle to sell her products

María’s Limbo is a feature-length documentary in development directed by Juan Manuel Barreda.

Emilio, a gray office worker, adopts a stray dog believing that this will strengthen his position within his fiance family, but in reality it will only be the trigger of how far a human being can go in order to belong.

A group of old houses in ruins, and people who inhabit them, lead us to reflect on the fragility of human illusion.