Signs and Gestures

Soledad, a traditional healer, lives with her grandson Jose in an Indigenous Village. Soledad's daughter, Adela, moved to Mexico City many years ago and now wants Jose to join her, but Soledad believes the boy is better off in the village.

Alma is a nine year old girl living in an urban environment in the U.S.. When she loses her mother, she has to travel to her grandmother Esperanza in an indigenous village in Mexico.

A young man, born and raised in the vastness of the galaxy, lands on an unknown planet. As he surveys the landscape, he recognises fragments from ancient stories. Driven by a quiet urgency, he contacts his ship’s command to retrieve archival recordings of the last humans to abandon earth. Slowly, it dawns on him that he has returned to his ancestral home.

In a highly controlled smart city in the year 2084 two climate migrants try to connect through old-fashioned letters.

A young Indigenous boy imagines his future while listening to the sounds of a seashell, while an Indigenous man recalls his past listening to the same shell.

A filmmaker returns to her home land, an indigenous village in Mexico and reflects on the passing of time.

During the ceremony to change the authorities in an indigenous town, where a council of elders passes leadership to a new council made up of younger men, all the money of the town is counted publicly. The next day, the treasury is empty: Who stole the money?