Image Rochín, Roberto He studied art at the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, United States. His first feature Ulama, el juego de la vida y la muerte (1987), won Ariel Awards for Best First Film, Best Picture, Best Music, Best Edition and Best Photography at the 30th Ariel Awards, Mexico; and the Silver Goddess for Best First Film at the 24th Silver Goddess Awards Ceremony, Mexico. The film was presented at the 1st Universal Expo 2000 fair, Hannover, Germany and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2003, among others. He won the Best Fiction Short Film award at the 29th WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival, Texas, for Un pedazo de noche (1995). For Paso del Norte (2001) he won an Ariel for Best Short Fiction Film at the 44th Ariel Awards and three awards at the 5th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF). He participated in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his feature Purgatorio, relatos de Juan Rulfo (2008), which won the Jury Award at the 36th Brussels Independent Film Festival, Belgium (FIFI in French); the Free Spirit Award at the 25th Warsaw Film Festival (WFF), Poland; and the Pre-Colombian Silver Circle Award for Best Picture at the 26th Bogotá Film Festival (Bogocine), Colombia. 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 Rochín, Roberto He studied art at the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, United States. His first feature Ulama, el juego de la vida y la muerte (1987), won Ariel Awards for Best First Film, Best Picture, Best Music, Best Edition and Best Photography at the 30th Ariel Awards, Mexico; and the Silver Goddess for Best First Film at the 24th Silver Goddess Awards Ceremony, Mexico. The film was presented at the 1st Universal Expo 2000 fair, Hannover, Germany and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2003, among others. He won the Best Fiction Short Film award at the 29th WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival, Texas, for Un pedazo de noche (1995). For Paso del Norte (2001) he won an Ariel for Best Short Fiction Film at the 44th Ariel Awards and three awards at the 5th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF). He participated in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his feature Purgatorio, relatos de Juan Rulfo (2008), which won the Jury Award at the 36th Brussels Independent Film Festival, Belgium (FIFI in French); the Free Spirit Award at the 25th Warsaw Film Festival (WFF), Poland; and the Pre-Colombian Silver Circle Award for Best Picture at the 26th Bogotá Film Festival (Bogocine), Colombia.
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
