José Pescina

Close Quarters

Manuel and Lupe want to have a baby. When Manuel discovers he is infertile, he starts to fall apart both physically and emotionally. After exploring several options, Manuel turns to Rubén, his new friend, to act as their donor.

Captain Blackbeard

A girl plays at being a pirate when she learns that her father's ranch will be invaded. Convinced that she can help, she goes into the forest, not knowing that she will find something worse.

Without Blood

In a frontier landscape at the beginning of the 20th century, gunmen descend on a remote farmhouse, determined to exact revenge. Their target, a doctor — alone with his son and daughter — tries desperately to protect his children. Inevitably, bullets fly.

Carmín Tropical

Mabel travels to her hometown to find the murderer of her friend Daniela.

Caballero Águila

After high school is over, three friends have to choose their paths. Pastor dreams of flying and winning Flor´s love, while her jealous brother Nacho gets seduced by the local gang, and falls in to crime.

The Tiger's Fight

After a year of drought, Nicolas prepares for "The Tiger's Fight", a prehispanic ritual where the village men fight to imitate thunder and foster the rain, hope of a good harvest. Inspired by one of the last surviving blood rituals in Mexico, "The Tiger's Fight" tells the story of Nicolas, a young man who wants to preserve the ritual, even when his love defies the traditions of his people.

Oasis

Ophelia goes to El Oasis, a tavern where men pick up men, looking for her husband. Her suspicions confirmed, she faints and a transgender prostitute unexpectedly helps her.

Deceit

Nacho gets involved in organized crime, a war of drug cartels is looming. Nacho must decide if he goes ahead or looks for a way out.

Exiles

Jonás, Leonor and Bernardo work on the last rehearsal before the premiere. The producer gives them the sudden news that the theater will close due to a political march. The premiere is cancelled. Despite everything, the three actors try to perform the play.

Otro muerto

Lazaro is a young gravedigger with a strange and unfortunate gift, he can see in people the crosses that announce the date of their imminent death. Inert before the immensity of death, he has learned to cope with his ability by being indifferent. The somber everyday life that Lazaro has submitted himself to accept is violently interrupted when a cross appears on the neck of the love of his life: Isaac. Lazaro faces his destiny; that of being consumed by the fact that he is only a spectator aware of the end of all those he loves.

Preludio a una Siesta

El Eco del Caracol

Enoc, a boy from an indigenous community fighting against the dispossession of his lands, is afraid to return home to explain everything to his mother without Nathil, his little sister. He suspects that the army killed her when they fired on the protest that the people of his town were holding. Frightened by the bells that call people to mass for the dead, he desperately searches for her among the rocks and waves of the sea.

Mariachi Nights

Four young athletes escape to tour the streets of Guadalajara by night.

Fuet