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.
This beautifully integrated, multi-threaded narrative seamlessly interweaves six stories set in radically different locations across Central America, ranging from the tropical forests of Guatemala to the skyscrapers of Panama City. When a solar storm leaves the region without power, myriad dramas unfold over the course of five days during which all conveniences of modernity are stripped away. In Costa Rica, a pastor and his daughter worry for the future of their church, while in El Salvador, a grandmother and grandson make an arduous journey into the city. A husband and wife reconnect in Honduras, as a young couple nurses a mysterious stranger back to health in Guatemala. Meanwhile, in Nicaragua, a young woman prepares for her quinceañera and in Panama, a housekeeper grows exasperated with her demanding employer.
A university professor on the verge of divorce and a new life is confronted with encounters that make him doubt his desires — and reality.
After witnessing the murder of a little girl's parents, a young woman becomes the child's protector and is forced to flee from the killers while trying to discover their motive.
Summer is approaching, which means the end of classes and the last exams, but Aina has only one thing on her mind: Pol, her first love. Aina is too reserved to take the step and spends her days hoping that Pol will be the one to dare. But that day never comes. Seeing that time passes and that the boy does not respond, Aina is willing to do anything to get his attention. So she puts aside her studies, goes to all the parties and, above all, lives surrounded by music and poetry while waiting for what she wants to happen.
Blanca, a woman painter, will create a ritual to overcome her fear of the dark. Stuck in her paint shop unable to move forward, she must begin the rite. When the sun goes down, she prepares herself, she has to comply with only one rule, not to turn on the light. Between dreams and hallucinations she finds herself, her past, her childhood fantasies and her distorted thoughts. The night passes, Blanca must go through her fears to achieve her goal and thus discover a new version of herself in the dark.
On her first student film shoot, Camila, the director, discovers that her boyfriend, Miguel, an actor, is cheating on her with his co-star. Upon learning of the infidelity, Camila questions her relationship with Miguel and her passion for filmmaking.
Walter was a photographer for the MLN-T during the Uruguayan military dictatorship. His memory drives a collective journey through time and reality, where images impose themselves as destiny.
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.
In the 1980s, Bolivia is recovering from the military dictatorships that took over the country. Franco, a little boy, starts a friendship with the strange man his mother keeps locked up in their basement. Thinking that he is his father, he tries to free him, finding out truths that he cannot understand.
An exploration of the concept of death through three minority communities, reflecting the phases of pre-mortem, mortem, and post-mortem. Reality and magical realism merge to depict the cultural acceptance of death in contrasting societies, revealing the collective imagination that upholds their funerary traditions and beliefs.
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.