Image Elizondo; Renata Direction, Script Renata Elizondo is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. From an early age, she found in stories a form of refuge and a defense mechanism—an interest that inspired her to pursue film studies at the age of seventeen at Arte 7.Throughout her education, she wrote the short films No hay lugar como el hogar [No Place Like Home] and Esto es lo que nos hace mujeres [This Is What Makes Us Girls]—a project for which she received the award for Best University Short Film at the Maracaibo Film Festival in 2023.At the age of twenty, she worked on the projects Esequie and Brindisi Per Domani in Italy. She subsequently explored the video essay format through deeply personal works before moving into fiction with Brote en el concreto [Sprouting Through Concrete] (2025)—her first short fiction film. In this 26-minute work, Silvia, a teenage girl from Coahuila, arrives alone in Mexico City to escape a forced marriage and start a new life. Other Movies Naza Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. See More 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa Esperanza is a young novice living in a quiet convent full of old nuns. After eating some “special” mushrooms, innocent Esperanza becomes modern and psychedelic Brenda: a subversive girl who raids a high-society party, sings subversive songs and charms young fellows. See More The Buzz During a live national television interview, Verónica, a famous and widely admired actress, struggles to uphold the image of a perfect life as her inner world fractures under the weight of private abuse. Trapped between silence, fear, and a sudden panic attack, she must decide whether to continue performing the illusion—or break the cycle in front of everyone. See More Related News The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26 Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Elizondo; Renata Direction, Script Renata Elizondo is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. From an early age, she found in stories a form of refuge and a defense mechanism—an interest that inspired her to pursue film studies at the age of seventeen at Arte 7.Throughout her education, she wrote the short films No hay lugar como el hogar [No Place Like Home] and Esto es lo que nos hace mujeres [This Is What Makes Us Girls]—a project for which she received the award for Best University Short Film at the Maracaibo Film Festival in 2023.At the age of twenty, she worked on the projects Esequie and Brindisi Per Domani in Italy. She subsequently explored the video essay format through deeply personal works before moving into fiction with Brote en el concreto [Sprouting Through Concrete] (2025)—her first short fiction film. In this 26-minute work, Silvia, a teenage girl from Coahuila, arrives alone in Mexico City to escape a forced marriage and start a new life.
Naza Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. See More
5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa Esperanza is a young novice living in a quiet convent full of old nuns. After eating some “special” mushrooms, innocent Esperanza becomes modern and psychedelic Brenda: a subversive girl who raids a high-society party, sings subversive songs and charms young fellows. See More
The Buzz During a live national television interview, Verónica, a famous and widely admired actress, struggles to uphold the image of a perfect life as her inner world fractures under the weight of private abuse. Trapped between silence, fear, and a sudden panic attack, she must decide whether to continue performing the illusion—or break the cycle in front of everyone. See More
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26 Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26
