Ben Guez

The picture is about the inexplicable property of a person to fill with energy and life even the most frightening and abandoned places. This is a portrait of the abandoned city of New Idrija and the last years of the lives of those who spent their youth in believing in an alternative version of the “American Dream”.

A group of UNAM students and their teacher prepare Antigone, a Greek tragedy that addresses the conflict between the rules of power and the will of a young woman to do the right thing. Life, theater and fiction are interwoven following the montage in the halls, in their homes, in public spaces and surrealist landscapes of the city.

A magical-realism documentary inspired by the writing of Juan Rulfo about a shepherd and his wife living in a Mexican ghost town.

A stone lies in a drying, forsaken soil just outside Barcelona. A group of women covers it with a red shroud. The last shepherd of the city, grazes the sheep that will protect the stone with their wool. On the mountain overlooking the city, a symbiosis occurs amid the ever-nearing chimes of change.

Three ageing brothers must face an uncertain future and the inevitable end to years of self-imposed isolation as the abandoned village of Escó in Spain, where they have lived all their lives, faces its second threat of extinction.