Gabriel Herrera Torres

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Gabriel Herrera Torres

Gabriel Herrera Torres is a mexican director, graduated from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC, UNAM) in 2010 and with a master's degree in film direction from the Polish National Film School (PWSFTviT). He has made several short films and currently teaches film, works on social and ecological documentaries and is making PHD studies focusing on philosophy and film theory. He …

Known For

Floating WorldFloating World · 2008
Floating World
2008
MovieDrama
After returning to her childhood home, Sofia faces the challenge of living day after day, immersed in a vicious circle where the world seems to stop and where the most important thing is to live hedonistically. However, Sofia will sooner or later have to face the real reason that keeps her trapped in her own life, escaping the conflict that she does not want to face.
ToothlessToothless · 2021
Toothless
2021
MovieAnimation
Clara looses one tooth while sleeping. Swallowed by a gigantic mouth, she enters an underground world where a Surreal Sci Fi advertising invites her to "ELECTRODENT" a clinic that promises to fix teeth... but not only.
TearsTears · 2025
Tears
2025
MovieAnimation
A film about the inability to make a decision. A world filled with possibilities and a lost heroine who may not want to choose at all.
Margarethe Doesn’t Want to be Seen DancingMargarethe Doesn’t Want to be Seen Dancing
Margarethe Doesn’t Want to be Seen Dancing
MovieHistory
It is the European Middle Ages. Ana’s mother is out in the street and, for no apparent reason, has started to dance. Ana feels deeply humiliated by her mother’s unexplainable behavior. To make matters worse, her mother keeps dancing without stopping for several days, and eventually other people start joining her without giving any explanation. Mortifed by embarrassment, Ana and other teenagers in the village try everything to distance themselves from the adult dancers; but the grown-ups seem determined to make fools of themselves, and to carry everything along with them while landscape, plants, animals, and social roles seem to turn ridiculous as well.
Time and MemoryTime and Memory · 2012
Time and Memory
2012
MovieDocumentary
A film essay that explores the relationship between film and memory, based on the personal memoir of the director. An autobiographical attempt to analyze this relationship going from the individual to the collective. From Chris Marker to Hitchcock and on to Kennedy´s assassination, passing through Fritz Lang and Bruce Willis, the memory of the images is fused with our own story, until they cannot be separated.
A BoatA Boat · 2016
A Boat
2016
MovieDocumentaryScience Fiction
Playful portrait of a group of men trying to build an impossible object.
Requiem for EternityRequiem for Eternity · 2011
Requiem for Eternity
2011
MovieDocumentary
In August 2007, after some medical studies, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. This movie is based on my memories of those days.
First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty RoomFirst Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room · 2008
First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room
2008
MovieDrama
Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.

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