Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 6:30 pm, classic-editor
Documentary shorts exploring a diverse range of topics in creative and engaging ways. Beyond talking heads, they deliver a message to your heart.
The Moon Will Contain Us
Dir Kim Torres, 2023 Costa Rica 18 minutes
As a magical moon creeps in, different timelines entwine in the mysterious and stagnant town of Manzanillo.
The Echo Of Her Voice
Dir.Rodrigo Guzmán Espíndola, 2023 Mexico 14 minutes
In an immeasurable search for justice for her daughter’s death, Margarita discovers that her voice can form part of a larger struggle that has emerged in the face of the current wave of femicides in Mexico.
Remember Us
Dir Pablo Leon, 2024 USA 14 minutes
A journalist documents the experiences of people who lived through the tragic 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, exploring themes of childhood loss, violence against women and the indigenous population, and regaining a sense of hope for the future that spans over three generations.
The Ballad of Tita and the Machines
Dir Miguel Angel Caballero, 2023 US 15 minutes
In a near future where Artificial Intelligence in the workforce is a societal norm, Tita, an injured and elderly fieldworker, reluctantly hires an artificially intelligent humanoid substitute worker to fill in for her picking strawberries and unexpectedly attracts the curiosity of the creators of this technology when their AI workers are unable to do her back-breaking work.
52 Minutos
Dir. Jean Chapiro, 2024 Mexico 11 minutes
Ana, a young woman with anorexia, is caught up in the struggle between sanity and restriction.
Makam Maj (Where are you going?)
Dir Sofía Ptacnik Rosas, 2023 Mexico 24 minutes
Taupp, a young Cucapa woman living in the 16th century, finds out through dream visions that bind her with modern Mexico City that she is the one chosen to preserve humanity by giving birth to the future race.