Whoever is Responsible

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.

On October 2, 1968, a student uprising descends into violence after the Mexican government begins to use lethal force against the protesters.

Llamen a un adulto (Sepiaexperimental)

Valverde, un año de arcoiris

Can flipping through the channels change your life? For Karen, a former prosecutor living in Chicago, her world changed forever when she accidentally fell in love with telenovelas. Now she has quit her job, and she's moving to Mexico City to write the telenovela she's always wanted to watch.

Bettie Spanks, a drag queen from Mexico City, guides us through a story about identity, drag, love, sexuality, and her duality.

Un escándalo llamado Byron (Los otros)

This documentary walks the line between fact and fiction, delving into corruption in the Mexican police through the experiences of two officers.

A very special trip to one of the most inaccessible sites of the Spanish heritage: the Altamira cave. A guided visit to its impressive painted walls and all its secret nooks and crannies.

A short city symphony evocation of present day Mexico City five hundred years after the invasion of the Spanish and the fall of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.

Ricardinho, el otro Messi (Los Otros)

The sofa, the fire, the silhouette. A home that disappears in ashes. After thirteen years of mental and physical confinement in that house, another confinement was necessary to face those images. Family photographs (90s-00s) and personal video archive footage filmed in 16mm and MiniDv between March and April 2019 during the move and the burning of the sofa, edited in quarantine, April 2020.

A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.

At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the silent protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos changed The Games forever, becoming one of the defining images of the 20th century.

In 1987, the film director and video artist Sarah Minter, made the documentary exercise Nobody is Innocent, a film that portrayed the daily life of the youth gang Los Mierdas Punk, from and residents of Ciudad Neza, State of Mexico. More than 20 years later, Minter returns to the streets where the tape was recorded to reconnect with the original members of the band, who today are around forty years old and still live in the same places.

The film tells the story of Raquel, Rodolfo and Hernán, members of a brigade at the UNAM during the student movement in Mexico in 1968. Through their photographs, films and writings, we will know the history of the day that the army took the university and how their students united, shouted and never forgot.

Gerald Hayo is a lesbian activist from Kenya. She is a survivor of one of the most cruel practices against LBQ women: corrective rape. This short documentary portrays her life as an activist in Mombasa, where she lives and works with her girlfriend Dee, and her return to Kisumu, her hometown, from where she had to flee after being disowned by her family. Nobody wants to see Gerald in Kisumu except her older sister, Cecilia.

“Archeology” and “Archive” share the same roots. Both words come from “Arkhé”, the Greek word for “origin”. In the ruins of buildings, lost forever by earthquakes, as in the depth of the archives, we dig. What happened the morning of the big earthquake? The morning of September 19th 1985 is fading away in our memories. These recordings have never been seen. Unedited images of the catastrophe dug out by the archaeological adventure of an archivist that suffered with them. He dug and suffered until he could no longer see.

An audiovisual portrait about La Merced neighborhood in Mexico City

A walkthrough the San Fernando graveyard in Mexico City from the ethereal gaze of a ghost.