El cine que nos forma

Cinema is an art that brings joy to millions of people around the world. However, it is difficult to create and produce, but there is an organization that teaches children how to make films so they can create the stories they dream of.

A documentary regards a UFO sighting by Dionisio Llanca in 1973.

Three Mexican filmmakers — Max del Río, Gabriela Ivette Sandoval, and Hugo Villaseñor Alcázar — share their processes and challenges around a single question: How can an independent film get seen? Through the eyes of insiders, the documentary reveals the complex journey behind making cinema visible in Mexico.

In Cañete there was a large movie theater in the center of town until the 1980s. At that time many things still worked. From a child's point of view, the short film transports us to an ordinary afternoon in Cañete, when people still happily went to the movies despite how difficult life was.

Told by its own teachers, the history of the film and television school of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

A personal exploration by the director, who uses cinema for a social, architectural, and artistic tour of San Luis Potosí, scattered with passages from the filmmaker´s own past.

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After years of pure carnival, red-and-white colors, and strong social commitment, the Alta Córdoba murga Los Gloriosos reaches its tenth anniversary, turning their birthday corso into a space for cultural reclaiming, resistance, and struggle. Gloriosxs dives into the origins of the murga through the testimonies of Diego and Constanza, for whom Los Gloriosos is not just a murga, but their family.

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A film student, who denies being in love with his teacher, wonders what cinema is, what love is, and why we do what we do.

One night, in a small bakery in a village in northern Spain, we accompany a baker who, through the contrast between the noise of heavy machinery and abrupt silences, works in solitude. His son, the author of the work, depicts the process: he projects his artistic and class concerns within the world of cinema by comparing the production of bread and the mechanisms of cinematographic creation.

In Culiacán, Sinaloa, 11-year-olds Fabi, Josué, and Francisco bond over shared struggles in their elementary school and use a film workshop to express the violence that surrounds them. Six years later, they reunite to reflect on their experiences and the unsettling normalization of violence in their lives, exploring its impact on their futures.

Observational documentary about the student protests that took place at the Universidad Austral de Chile during 2024, in the context of the implementation of the "Recovery Plan", which caused a wave of layoffs of professors and staff, increasing the educational crisis of the institution.

A university professor on the verge of divorce and a new life is confronted with a series of encounters that make him doubt his desires — and reality.

A transgender girl runs away from home and is invited to live with a strange photographer who pushes her to help him pay his debts.

A newly arrived immigrant to the United States struggles to make money working as a server, but his inexperience and anxiety threaten to make him fail, forcing him to master the job in order to survive in his new home.