Image Retes, Gabriela She took courses in architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received her degree in education from the Public Education Secretariat (SEP), Mexico. She has worked in film projects from an early age, as editor, producer, actress and director. She co-wrote the screenplays for her father Gabriel Retes’ feature films, El bulto (1992), in which she was also an actress, and Bienvenido-Welcome (1994), both winners of numerous awards around the world. The first film received the Best Picture Award at the 18th Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain, and the 4th Puerto Rico Cinemafest, among others. As a screenwriter, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Bienvenido-Welcome; which she won the Silver Goddess Award for Best Screenplay at the 23rd Silver Goddess Awards, Mexico. This film also received the Second Coral Award at the 16th International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba, and the Grand Prize at the 14th Amiens International Film Festival, France. She participated as director in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with La luz de la oscuridad (2007), which won a Special Mention for Short Fiction Film. Other Movies 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 Related News 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 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Retes, Gabriela She took courses in architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received her degree in education from the Public Education Secretariat (SEP), Mexico. She has worked in film projects from an early age, as editor, producer, actress and director. She co-wrote the screenplays for her father Gabriel Retes’ feature films, El bulto (1992), in which she was also an actress, and Bienvenido-Welcome (1994), both winners of numerous awards around the world. The first film received the Best Picture Award at the 18th Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain, and the 4th Puerto Rico Cinemafest, among others. As a screenwriter, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Bienvenido-Welcome; which she won the Silver Goddess Award for Best Screenplay at the 23rd Silver Goddess Awards, Mexico. This film also received the Second Coral Award at the 16th International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba, and the Grand Prize at the 14th Amiens International Film Festival, France. She participated as director in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with La luz de la oscuridad (2007), which won a Special Mention for Short Fiction Film.
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
