Image Ruiz, Rafael He studied audiovisual art at the University of Guadalajara (U. de G.), Jalisco, Mexico. He participated with his short fiction film Amores ridículos (2011) in the 6th Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM); the 14th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF); and the 22nd Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy. He received the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), during the 2012-2013 period, for the creation of his animated short film Hola (2013), which was part of the Official Selection of the 12th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He has participated with this film in the 7th Animasivo, Contemporary Animation Forum, Mexico City; the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), Jalisco; the 1st Aguascalientes Film Festival, Mexico (FICAGS); and the 17th GIFF, Guanajuato, among others. Other Movies If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More 40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More Related News Nuria Ibáñez on EL GUARDIÁN and How Cinema Helps Us Think About What’s Foreign to Us at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 “The Process is the Only Part of Cinema That's Ours”: Elisa Miller Presents BITÁCORA DE DIRECCIÓN DE TEMPORADA DE HURACANES 10 · 13 · 25 Activities for Impulso Morelia 11 Begin at the 23th FICM 10 · 13 · 25 64th Critics' Week: Ava Cahen Presented Shih-Ching Tsou's LEFT-HANDED GIRL at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Ruiz, Rafael He studied audiovisual art at the University of Guadalajara (U. de G.), Jalisco, Mexico. He participated with his short fiction film Amores ridículos (2011) in the 6th Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM); the 14th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF); and the 22nd Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy. He received the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), during the 2012-2013 period, for the creation of his animated short film Hola (2013), which was part of the Official Selection of the 12th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He has participated with this film in the 7th Animasivo, Contemporary Animation Forum, Mexico City; the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), Jalisco; the 1st Aguascalientes Film Festival, Mexico (FICAGS); and the 17th GIFF, Guanajuato, among others.
If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More
Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More
40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More
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Nuria Ibáñez on EL GUARDIÁN and How Cinema Helps Us Think About What’s Foreign to Us at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
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64th Critics' Week: Ava Cahen Presented Shih-Ching Tsou's LEFT-HANDED GIRL at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
