Image Roqué; María Inés She studied communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and cinematography at the CCC film school in Mexico City. Her work has been presented at more than 40 festivals around the world. She won the First Place Ex Aequo Award at the 2nd International Film School Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her first documentary feature Las compañeras tienen grado (1995), co-directed with Guadalupe Miranda, which also participated in the 20th Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York; the 6th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel; the 15th Women in The Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival, Chicago, among others. Her second feature-length documentary Papá Iván (2000) received three honorary mentions and three international awards, including the Coral award for Best Documentary at the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba, and the Ariel for Best Documentary Short Film at the 45th Ariel Awards, Mexico. She presented this work at the symposium “Recordar el pasado e inventar el futuro”, in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University, California. She received the Audience Award for Best Mexican Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with Un día más (2004). Her documentary feature Cavallo entre rejas (2006), co-directed with Laura Imperiale and Shula Erenberg, won the Ex Aequo Award at the 6th Latin American Video and Audiovisual Arts Festival of Rosario, Argentina (FLVR) and a Jury Mention at the 5th Three Continents Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She worked as a screenwriter and editing advisor with the underwater photographer Manuel Lazcano, in the short films: ECO, Bajo la lente de Manuel Lazcano (2007), which won Third Place at the 4th Eastern Mediterranean International Underwater Photography and Film Festival, Northern Cyprus, and La expedición Ja’tay continúa (2009), which won a Special Jury Award at the 36th World Festival of Underwater Pictures, Marseille, France. 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 The mysteries of Elena Garro 05 · 02 · 25 Irene Jacob. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE: Morelia 2023 04 · 24 · 25 Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025) and LOS CACHORROS 04 · 17 · 25 Hernán Cortés: two atypical visions 04 · 10 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Roqué; María Inés She studied communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and cinematography at the CCC film school in Mexico City. Her work has been presented at more than 40 festivals around the world. She won the First Place Ex Aequo Award at the 2nd International Film School Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her first documentary feature Las compañeras tienen grado (1995), co-directed with Guadalupe Miranda, which also participated in the 20th Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York; the 6th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel; the 15th Women in The Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival, Chicago, among others. Her second feature-length documentary Papá Iván (2000) received three honorary mentions and three international awards, including the Coral award for Best Documentary at the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba, and the Ariel for Best Documentary Short Film at the 45th Ariel Awards, Mexico. She presented this work at the symposium “Recordar el pasado e inventar el futuro”, in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University, California. She received the Audience Award for Best Mexican Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with Un día más (2004). Her documentary feature Cavallo entre rejas (2006), co-directed with Laura Imperiale and Shula Erenberg, won the Ex Aequo Award at the 6th Latin American Video and Audiovisual Arts Festival of Rosario, Argentina (FLVR) and a Jury Mention at the 5th Three Continents Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She worked as a screenwriter and editing advisor with the underwater photographer Manuel Lazcano, in the short films: ECO, Bajo la lente de Manuel Lazcano (2007), which won Third Place at the 4th Eastern Mediterranean International Underwater Photography and Film Festival, Northern Cyprus, and La expedición Ja’tay continúa (2009), which won a Special Jury Award at the 36th World Festival of Underwater Pictures, Marseille, France.
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
The mysteries of Elena Garro 05 · 02 · 25 Irene Jacob. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE: Morelia 2023 04 · 24 · 25 Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025) and LOS CACHORROS 04 · 17 · 25 Hernán Cortés: two atypical visions 04 · 10 · 25
