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Si me Comprendieras refers to the tradition of Bolero, as the original intention of the director was to make a musical film. This proved to be difficult for a Cuban living in Spain, as the search for appropriate dancers revealed the grim realities these black women lived each day -- oppressive family relationships, unemployment which forces them into prostitution, the general hopelessness of young Cubans and the subtle racism which is officially denied. In this docu-drama, a Cuban director and scriptwriter embarks upon a journey to search for a black or half-caste dancer and singer to play the central role in his latest film, a musical comedy. The audience witnesses the experiences of the film crew from their point of view, behind the camera. Through the questions they pose to the auditioning actresses and their responses, the reality of Cuba is revealed.

The documentary Path of the Bees demonstrates, with its ethnographic restlessness, an orthodox point of view in the staging and in the final result. The way in which he portrays the native people of the Chiapas jungle, disregarding the explanatory voiceover and getting carried away by a visual narrative made of details; It makes me perseverantly document the vegetation of the place, the constructions, the gestures and the looks of those who inhabit it.

“I tried to imagine what the last hymn to Novalis’s night had been if it was beyond language. (…) is the most elaborate hand painted film I’ve ever made”.

A father and his son appear out of nowhere and break the routine of a village lost between the mountains of Honduras. They ask for a place to stay and show the owners' of the house a strange artifact that reproduces sounds which they had not heard before, but bewitches them with pleasure.

A documentary film examining the treatment of lesbians and gay men during the early years of the Cuban Revolution and perspectives of current residents of Cuba on questions of political ideology and sexual identity

La Vanessa was the organiser of the first gay rights march in Chiapas State, Mexico. Four years after her murder in 1992, this study of mexican transvestite culture documents a period of fear marked by 29 brutal murders. It originally aired in '96 as part of Channel 4's Latino Nights line-up ("a season of programmes from and about Latin America"), and--aside from showing up at a few niche trans-festivals here and there--seems to have disappeared altogether after that.