Amado

A canadian photographer gets trapped in Mexico during the 2020 pandemic lockdown, he narrates through voice notes and Polaroids his experience of having to deal with himself.

Surrounded by soap and water: a workday for two women in a steam bath. Surrounded by a crowd of naked men and secrets whispered behind these curtains of steam, Alma and Ha are forced to reveal their own truth.

Inside a room full of plants, a woman finds shelter from the outside world. Submerged in delirium, Alba experiences her withering.

After several years together, Noni makes a proposal to Julia that will take their relationship to the next level. Although she accepts, Julia’s body begins to show signs of rejection that become increasingly hard to ignore.

In an attempt to capture her subject, a photographer struggles against what remains beyond the frame.

Roca Partida is a contemplative portrait of a coastal community in Veracruz marked by institutional abandonment. Through the voices of its inhabitants, including a former lighthouse keeper, the documentary reconstructs the memory of a place that is vanishing in front of the sea. The lighthouse, in ruins, symbolizes all that the government has stopped looking at. In its final section, a warning about the growing presence of organized crime emerges. A territory that resists, but also fears.

A housewife is a slave to her own home. As she ages, she tries to remember who she was, and everything she ever wanted.

Martha, a renowned pianist, faces an unexpected rupture when she becomes a mother and her daughter, Luna, is born deaf. Used to understanding the world through music, Martha’s reality fractures as she discovers that loving her child demands new ways of listening, speaking, and connecting. Between concert halls and moments of silence, she learns that motherhood is not only about care, but about accepting difference, translating emotion, and reinventing the bond with the person she loves most.