Things We Dare Not Do

Carina is 8 and likes rock & roll. Her life changes completely when she believes that her new teacher is the same woman she saw in a her father’s erotic magazine.

An emotional journey that takes us into one father – daughter relationship, through their struggles and dificultéis, ending in the house by the sea where they were happy together.

Margarita is a woman who lives in the streets of Mexico City, a character who moves between lucidity and madness.

How does it feel when your brother, someone you felt to be the dearest, brightest and most important person in the world, suddenly decides to join an ultraconservative Catholic religious order? Whilst the two siblings had spent time at Christian summer camps – he at the Legionarios and she with the Consagradas – the members of both orders had always seemed rather odd to them. Her brother swore he would never join the Legionaries and that it didn’t interest him at all. Why did he break this pact, what happened to him?

Ale and her best friend Rubén, witness the brief sighting of a comet. She hangs on to the moment.

Since an attack on students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in 2014 resulted in six deaths and in the forced disappearance of 43, the students’ families have been living in limbo with their unanswered questions, their struggle embodying the psychological and emotional toll of endemic violence upon Mexican society.

Artemio was born in U.S.A. Now he lives in a small town in Guerrero with his mother and his new family. Despite his roots in Mexico, he still doesn’t feel like a part of it. Together, they will show us a reality where the distance from those they left behind will come to life in every phone call.

This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers, which exposes the criminal complicity between the police and military authorities, between the political and economic elites and criminal organizations in Mexico, which appear to be different forces, but respond to similar interests.

Marcos is a 65 years old artist. He works in a gas station, depressed and annoyed with his life because he has never been able to exhibit his paintings. One day, Luis a young thief who's 13 years old, enters to his house thinking it was empty. Luis is the only one who knows about Marcos art. Suddenly, a kind of friendship starts between Luis and Marcos. And both begin to find new answers about life and art.

Carolina and Elsa, two friends of 10 and 13 years old who live in the same housing unit, enjoy a childhood full of mischief, video recordings and pop music in the nineties.

Ariel, a young mexican student, starts to have feelings for his best friend Roman.

Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.

Gema’s suicide attempt brings her three children together after many years, on the eve of an unusually cold Christmas in Guadalajara. Cristina, stubborn and deeply Catholic, sees herself as their mother’s caretaker; Sony, a psychic on the local Latino TV channel, fled as far as she could over twenty years ago and never came back; and Brunito, the much younger one, a frustrated biologist and forty-something gay man still dreaming of finding the love of his life. A cold front moves in and traps them inside the house, threatening to bring back the family’s most painful memory—and place it right on the table.

Armando is a young boy who spend his days between working at a storage and visiting his mother at a mental institution where she lives. After his last birthday solitude starts to bordering him deeply so he makes a new friend; Bombay.