About a Woman

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O que corre em nós

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.

Alice, a recently widowed director, is alone on her grief after her daughter leaves home. Alice clings to the only structure she has, a fragile foundation at risk of collapsing: an essay film project, about first loves, dependent on funding. Suddenly we enter in another dimension, another place and without prior notice we are in the film conceived by the director.

Projections Imaginaire

pequenos grandes momentos

Au Revoir, Marie

In Paraíba in the 70s, love took place on the banks of the Paraíba River. Two teenagers, Josué and Alex fall in love and run away from their aristocratic families in the countryside of Paraíba state. Threatened by their families, the only place they know to escape their parents' evil is river, the place where they grew up and played together. Through the geographical beauty of the river, they will face hate, love and the strength of nature like never before.

During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).

Semente

Inspiración

After dying in a sudden accident, Darlene wakes in a liminal cinema, where she meets another lost soul. As the two form a connection, they begin to realise their fates are more deeply intertwined than they ever imagined.

200

Film students are pushed to their limits by the chaotic nature of a film set. As their film goes from pitch to production, they find out what it means to create something meaningful.

Two young men from the outskirts of Rome, Marcello and Nino, destroy the neighborhood boss’s bar and are forced to flee. As they run, Marcello hides on a film set in Cinecittà, where he has an encounter that will change his life.

The attention was not focused on the tourist attractions, but rather on the graffiti.

Insígnia

Sérgio is a creative boy, but never had the attention he desired by anyone. Years later, he became a successful graffiti artist, however, he struggles to find inspiration for his latest project, yet Sérgio tries to compensate for what he lacked in his childhood with an unhealthy relationship, searching the answers to something he has been missing since a young boy.

Fuga de Kairós

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.