Image Torres Torres, Jesús He studied communication at the Center for Communication Studies (CECC, in Spanish) in Mexico City. He won, among other scholarships and grants, the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in 2000, and received the support of the 10th National Competition for Short Film Projects launched by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) in 2010. He was the winner of the 6th Alejandro Galindo Screenwriting Improvement Workshop and was part of the Projects in Development Nuevas Miradas at the 34th International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba. He has participated with his work in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). At the 6th FICM, he competed with his short fiction film En la luz del sol brillante (2008), that was also presented at the 20th International Short Film Festival, Brazil; at the 13th Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival, New Zealand; and the 24th Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (TGLFF), Italy, among others. At the 9th FICM, he participated with his short fiction film Vendaval (2011) that was also presented at the 54th Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Spain, and the 16th Film Festival of Lima, Peru. 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 Torres Torres, Jesús He studied communication at the Center for Communication Studies (CECC, in Spanish) in Mexico City. He won, among other scholarships and grants, the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in 2000, and received the support of the 10th National Competition for Short Film Projects launched by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) in 2010. He was the winner of the 6th Alejandro Galindo Screenwriting Improvement Workshop and was part of the Projects in Development Nuevas Miradas at the 34th International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba. He has participated with his work in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). At the 6th FICM, he competed with his short fiction film En la luz del sol brillante (2008), that was also presented at the 20th International Short Film Festival, Brazil; at the 13th Out Takes: A Reel Queer Film Festival, New Zealand; and the 24th Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (TGLFF), Italy, among others. At the 9th FICM, he participated with his short fiction film Vendaval (2011) that was also presented at the 54th Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Spain, and the 16th Film Festival of Lima, Peru.
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
