Evaporated

Don Lázaro is a former gunslinger that has left behind his years of violence to care for his granddaughter, Beatriz. The child suffers a terminal disease and doesn’t have much hope to live. Lázaro is visited by a former friend for an appointment that will decide Beatriz’ future.

I like to think about the plastic possibilities of cinema in conjunction with bodily exploration, in a quest for dynamism and surprise in the image. In this piece, there is an intrinsic theme of identity, memory, and displacement between Mexico and California, and the impression of those geographies on my gaze.

Lily, a little girl, prepares a party for her father while she is in the care of her cousin Teo, who completes her idea of family.

Bere is an unsuccessful stand-up comedian who gets kidnapped by Mino and Sal outside the bar where she works. They want to use the money to pay for Focha's recovery. But the kidnapping will not go as planned.

On the eve of the Candelaria festival in Mexico, Ariana suffers her love for the Cebu bull that lives in the countryside on the other side of the river. At the celebration, Cebu will be taken to the village to be persecuted and killed. Among the persecutors is Manuel, Ariana's husband and father of the baby she carries.