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The 4 Beers

Thirty-something friends Chente, Linares y Mijo set out on a journey to Lake Atitlan, to fulfill the last wish of their recently deceased childhood friend, Chacha: to throw his ashes into the lake and drink the last four beers in his name. On their way, they run over a police officer. Giving him up for dead, the three friends shove the body in the trunk of their car…and that’s when the fun really starts as they face one outrageous situation after another forcing each one of them to come to terms with their own existential crisis.

The 4 Beers

NR 2016
Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real

Iolanta is a one act lyric opera, sung in Russian, by Tchaikovsky. Performed in the style of a nineteenth-century Italian melodrama, the scenes have a recitative introduction followed by a single arioso, aria, duet or chorus. Persephone is a three act melodrama, sung in French, by Stravinsky. It is a story of regeneration, symbolised in Sellars use of dancers from the Cambodian dance company, Amrita Performing Arts. Peter Sellars, one of the most innovative creators on today's stage, has linked these two productions by using the same stage setting, instantly archaic yet modern, and lit by rich colours to define the journey from darkness to light.

Iolanta / Perséphone – Teatro Real

NR 2012
So Close So Far

Bolivia in the 50's : on the Island of the Sun, in the midst of Lake Titicaca, Alberto Perrin films the indigenous community recently emancipated through the agrarian reform and the 1952 revolution. 2010: Carmen Perrin, his daughter, returns to the inhabitants the films shot by her father. No nostalgia, because the ancestral rites and the spirit of liberty continues to enliven the community, despite the pressure of tourism. A memory is emerging, gestures are invented, ties are woven in the landscape sanctuary.

So Close So Far

6.0 2012
Jackie

Father Andres, a local priest from a rural religious congregation outside of Quito, is living a life of total sadness, anxiety and loneliness. In within himself he has a fetish with femininity, and he feels desperate to liberate himself from this lonely and oppressed environment. Inspired by his alter ego, Jackie Kennedy and by his alter boy in the church , Father Andres decides ultimately the unthinkable, to dress himself as his icon, calling himself Jackie, leaving his home, exploring the streets with his deep sexual oppressed desires, that for so long have been kept hidden and tampered. Facing with curiosity this new facet of his life, the father decides that there is no turning back, even if this new liberation ultimately leads him to confront dangerous situations, having been discovered by Patricio and his bullying homophobic friends.

Jackie

NR 2011
Kentannos. May You Live To Be 100!

In Costa Rica, Panchita has just turned 109 and hopes for a visit from two of her children: Pablo, 93 years old, and Calixto, 88 years old. Sarita, who is 93, has no hesitation in confessing her love for Denis, a young policeman. Pachito’s daughter, fearing that something may happen to her 98-year-old father, tries to prohibit him from continuing horse-riding. In Sardinia, for his 93rd birthday, Adolfo wants to fulfil his dream of flying a plane. In Okinawa, Tomi, 93 years old, cannot recover from the death of her first son. Her friend Haru, who is 98, encourages her to return to the pop group formed of the island’s grandmothers.

Kentannos. May You Live To Be 100!

NR 2019
The Lions

A film that traces the intimate portrait of a marginal argentinean couple: a trans chica, Mariana Koballa, and her lover, Raúl Francisco. In a pink house, on the quiet island of Tres Bocas, they live surrounded by nature, friends and several pets. In a realistic and poetic way, this film follows the couple's daily life for an entire year, and reveals their humour amidst dramatic situations, the intimacy with the symptoms of Mariana's disease and their relationship's singularity.

The Lions

NR 2017
Combustion

Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested in the world of Ari: illegal motor racing. Then, the protagonist of this story decides to leave Julia without knowing the true intentions of the person who has seduced. Ari and her boyfriend, Navas, have hatched a plan to get around Mikel jewelry made ​​with his ex-girlfriend.

Combustion

5.4 2013
I am a Sahrawi woman

This is the reality of women of the same nation who live divided by the wall that has separated them for 35 years now. Exiled Sahrawi women who live in the refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria) have a 88% representation rate in teaching and in healthcare, and 9% in government, evidence that they are the fundamental pillar of society. The ones who remained in the occupied territories of Western Sahara are part of every aspect of the struggle and activism against Moroccan occupation. They protest at the intifadas, they research the plunder of their natural resources, they paint flags, write pamphlets and they belong to the organisations that defend Sahrawi human rights in Western Sahara. These women: former prisoners, formerly missing, activists, today are tortured, harassed, followed, surveilled and violated simply for defending their legitimate right to freely express themselves in favour of Western Sahara’s independence.

I am a Sahrawi woman

NR 2010