Image Cuesta; Raúl He studied international business at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores (ITESM), received a master’s degree in computer systems from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and took a course in narrative photography by the Pedro Meyer Foundation and the World Press Photo organization. He has worked in several television shows, music videos and documentaries. He produced and photographed David ou le retour à la terre (2013) by Anaïs Huerta, and he has participated in the making of several Mexican feature films. He competed in the 4th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his short fiction film Máximo (2006). His first feature Rehje (2009), co-directed with Anaïs Huerta, won a Special Mention for a Documentary Made by a Woman at the 6th FICM; as well as the award for Best Documentary at the 2nd International Film Festival on Human Rights in Mexico (DHFEST); the award for Best Documentary at the 6th Independent Documentary Film and Video Latin American Meeting: All Voices Against Silence, Mexico; the Young Hope Award at the 20th Présensce Autochtone Festival in Montreal, Canada; the Jury Prize at the 5th Indigene International Film Festival in Katmandú, Nepal; the Grand Prix at the 5th Documentary Festival, L’Amérique Latine en Documentaries in Lyon, France; and a nomination for an Ariel for Best Documentary at the 52nd Ariel Awards, Mexico. He received various grants for the creation of his second feature length documentary, Los días no vuelven (2015): from the Fund for Quality Film Production (FOPROCINE, in Spanish) and the Promotion Program and Cultural Co-Investments of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), in 2011, as well as the Media Arts Fund Grant, in 2013, from the Tribeca Film Institute, United States, among others. He was selected to participate with this feature project in the Coproduction Forum at the 1st Riviera Maya Film Festival (RMFF), Mexico. Los días no vuelven participated in the 4th RMFF; the 11th Monterrey International Film Festival, México; and was part of the Official Selection of the 13th FICM. He is in the process of making his third feature film Los días por venir, selected for the Documentary Pitching of the 7th DocMontevideo, Uruguay. Other Movies 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 Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. See More Related News Hernán Cortés: two atypical visions 04 · 10 · 25 MIL CAMINOS TIENE LA MUERTE: Arsenio Campos (1946-2025) 04 · 03 · 25 EL CAMINO DE LA VIDA: THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED by Matilde Landeta 03 · 27 · 25 Juan Rulfo and the silver screen 03 · 20 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Cuesta; Raúl He studied international business at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores (ITESM), received a master’s degree in computer systems from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and took a course in narrative photography by the Pedro Meyer Foundation and the World Press Photo organization. He has worked in several television shows, music videos and documentaries. He produced and photographed David ou le retour à la terre (2013) by Anaïs Huerta, and he has participated in the making of several Mexican feature films. He competed in the 4th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his short fiction film Máximo (2006). His first feature Rehje (2009), co-directed with Anaïs Huerta, won a Special Mention for a Documentary Made by a Woman at the 6th FICM; as well as the award for Best Documentary at the 2nd International Film Festival on Human Rights in Mexico (DHFEST); the award for Best Documentary at the 6th Independent Documentary Film and Video Latin American Meeting: All Voices Against Silence, Mexico; the Young Hope Award at the 20th Présensce Autochtone Festival in Montreal, Canada; the Jury Prize at the 5th Indigene International Film Festival in Katmandú, Nepal; the Grand Prix at the 5th Documentary Festival, L’Amérique Latine en Documentaries in Lyon, France; and a nomination for an Ariel for Best Documentary at the 52nd Ariel Awards, Mexico. He received various grants for the creation of his second feature length documentary, Los días no vuelven (2015): from the Fund for Quality Film Production (FOPROCINE, in Spanish) and the Promotion Program and Cultural Co-Investments of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), in 2011, as well as the Media Arts Fund Grant, in 2013, from the Tribeca Film Institute, United States, among others. He was selected to participate with this feature project in the Coproduction Forum at the 1st Riviera Maya Film Festival (RMFF), Mexico. Los días no vuelven participated in the 4th RMFF; the 11th Monterrey International Film Festival, México; and was part of the Official Selection of the 13th FICM. He is in the process of making his third feature film Los días por venir, selected for the Documentary Pitching of the 7th DocMontevideo, Uruguay.
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
Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More
Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. See More
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