2007 | Color | 6min In a small factory in the middle of the desert, thousands of slave robots work processing information. They are being watched all the time by another robot. One of the slave robots, identified as ?R4?, stops working for a moment and notices that all his fellow robots are in a frenzy of work. He immediately receives an electric shock by an overseer robot, who forces him to return to work. Under strict surveillance R4 experiences a sudden hallucination in which he flies into an open space between floating numbers. When he returns from his vision, he decides to fight for his freedom. Country: México Direction: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Script: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Production: Boy Animation; Blue Photography: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Sound: Zendejas; Carlos Music: Zendejas; Carlos Art direction: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Participation year at FICM: 2008
2007 | Color | 6min In a small factory in the middle of the desert, thousands of slave robots work processing information. They are being watched all the time by another robot. One of the slave robots, identified as ?R4?, stops working for a moment and notices that all his fellow robots are in a frenzy of work. He immediately receives an electric shock by an overseer robot, who forces him to return to work. Under strict surveillance R4 experiences a sudden hallucination in which he flies into an open space between floating numbers. When he returns from his vision, he decides to fight for his freedom. Country: México Direction: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Script: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Production: Boy Animation; Blue Photography: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Sound: Zendejas; Carlos Music: Zendejas; Carlos Art direction: Mar Mancilla; Alberto Gabriel Participation year at FICM: 2008
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
