2016 | Color | 93:58 The waterfalls of El Salto de Juanacatlán in Jalisco were once known as the “Mexican Niagara Falls”. The sudden arrival of the international industry in the 70s turned its waters into a poisoned hub for the destruction of life. Now, in the village of El Salto, one family rescues its memories, in a battle for the resurrection of the Santiago River’s waters – and for this village’s survival. Direction: Polgovsky; Eugenio Script: Polgovsky; Eugenio Production: Polgovsky; Eugenio, Chavezmontes; Julio Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Sound: Enciso; Enrique, Polgovsky; Mara, Nieto; Marcelo, Polgovsky; Eugenio Cast:González; Graciela, González; Sofía, Enciso; Enrique, Hernández; María Guadalupe Participation year at FICM: 2016
2016 | Color | 93:58 The waterfalls of El Salto de Juanacatlán in Jalisco were once known as the “Mexican Niagara Falls”. The sudden arrival of the international industry in the 70s turned its waters into a poisoned hub for the destruction of life. Now, in the village of El Salto, one family rescues its memories, in a battle for the resurrection of the Santiago River’s waters – and for this village’s survival. Direction: Polgovsky; Eugenio Script: Polgovsky; Eugenio Production: Polgovsky; Eugenio, Chavezmontes; Julio Photography: Polgovsky; Eugenio Sound: Enciso; Enrique, Polgovsky; Mara, Nieto; Marcelo, Polgovsky; Eugenio Cast:González; Graciela, González; Sofía, Enciso; Enrique, Hernández; María Guadalupe Participation year at FICM: 2016
Malintzin 17 Minimalist in resources and filmed from the unusual vantage point of a second-floor flat window, Malintzin 17 portrays two parallel expressions of parental care. For seven days and seven nights, filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky and his five-year-old daughter Milena watch a pigeon tending her chick in a dangerous tangle of electrical wires just outside their balcony. See More
Lightbyrinth A work of video art inspired by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell; the piece is part of a special initiative to celebrate the opening of the Maxwell Centre. Using Maxwell’s original equipment, including his zoetrope (an animation device), Polgovsky explores the nature of light and perceptions of color in Lightbyrinth. See More
Trópico de Cáncer At the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, many families survive by hunting animals and selling them along the highway. See More
54 years after the Halconazo 06 · 12 · 25 Salón Los Ángeles on Screen 06 · 05 · 25 Sundance Film Festival CDMX 2025: ABEL, HEROD'S LAW and more 05 · 29 · 25 Four 22nd FICM short films presented at the 64th Cannes Critics’ Week got a special screening in Paris 05 · 26 · 25
Four 22nd FICM short films presented at the 64th Cannes Critics’ Week got a special screening in Paris 05 · 26 · 25
