The best of films from MEXICO from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Short Film: ELVIRA
Best Micro-Short Film: ETERNAL FLAVOR (SABOR ETERNO)
Best Animation: TASTE OF ME
Best Story: FEAR
Best New Media Film: BATTLE OF THE BATTER
Best Family Film: FOR CLARITA
Best 1 Minute Film: PAPERLIGHT
Best Direction: A TRAIN THAT ONE DAY WILL RETURN
Best Performances: PAPER DOLLS
Best Documentary: EL MAR ES CANNIBAL
BATTLE OF THE BATTER, 9min.
Directed by Michael Aseret Diaz Sanchez
Kusogaki hosts the extravagant “Battle of the Batter”, the greatest baking competition in the universe (according to him), where his sisters Jamora and Mamonk compete to be crowned the ultimate baker, and, conveniently, give him all the attention he wants. But when the contest requires him to choose a single winner, he panics and does what any reasonable kid would do: he creates a mysterious man-watch to turn the kitchen into a chaotic battlefield. Between tricks, explosions, and way too much frosting, the real challenge becomes far more personal than culinary.
https://www.instagram.com/bibuba.productions
FEAR, 11min.
Directed by Reyna Ivonne Mendoza Estrada
A teenage girl is hospitalized in a public psychiatric clinic after a suicide attempt. What begins as a search for care becomes an experience marked by institutional abuse and neglect. Through her testimony and a visual stop-motion reconstruction, the documentary explores the conditions of psychiatric hospitalization and the dynamics that normalize violence in mental health spaces, challenging the idea of protection and care.
https://www.instagram.com/keeesiiii_
TASTE OF ME, 4min.
Directed by Alexa Sánchez
A man and a woman are cooking dinner for each other. As they prepare the meal, they begin to include parts of their own bodies in the dishes, so that when they eat, they´ll become a part of each other forever.
https://www.instagram.com/saborami_stopmotion
FOR CLARITA, 8min.
Directed by Mar Ramirez Guerrero
An exceptional young mail carrier aspires to become the town’s legendary ideal mail carrier; to achieve this, she must earn one final badge by helping the town’s most stubborn man write a letter to his late wife and delivering it before the delivery truck departs. Although she fails to deliver the letter on time, she comes to understand that listening to and sharing the stories of those we love is what truly matters, and she earns a badge even more meaningful than any other.
Eternal Flavor (Sabor Eterno), 3min.
Directed by Alonso Garza Chávez
Maria achieved every chef’s dream: cooking in one of Paris’s most prestigious restaurants. However, this accomplishment doesn’t fulfill her as she always thought it would. Everything changes when she receives a call from her uncle and must urgently return to the town where she grew up. Upon returning to its streets filled with memories, Maria embarks on a journey to her roots, facing the dilemma of continuing a family legacy or returning to the life she built in Paris. Perhaps, among the flavors of her childhood and the warmth of her home, she will find the answer she has been searching for.
PAPERLIGHT, 2min.
Directed by Teresita de Jesus Fuentes Calderón
A class accident by two little stundents turns out into a creative game where their differences transforms mistakes into a new share universe full of imagination.
https://www.instagram.com/paperlight_sf
El mar es cannibal, 15min., Documentary
Directed by Ángeles Regina Rodríguez Ramos
To support his family, Don Lolo works as an open-sea fisherman—a pursuit that has seen him shipwrecked three times. Yet, he returns with the same faith, determination, and courage, facing the uncertainty of an ocean that can either grant him life or take it away.
A train that one day will return, 3min., Drama
Directed by Xènia Mas Peñas, Laura Rosa Maqueda
A shared chocolate becomes the first gesture of a story that, without them knowing it, will unite them forever. A surprise, a gift or a hug. When the farewell arrives, a letter shows that love does not stop time, but transforms it into a memory.
Paper Dolls, 7min.,
Directed by Sofía Romo Saavedra
A girl who still finds refuge in her paper dolls and in the fantasy of childhood begins to confront an uncomfortable reality: society starts to see and treat her as older than she truly is.
https://www.instagram.com/sillycrowsproductions
ELVIRA, 13min.,
Directed by Andrea Monserrat Erazo
Elvira, a 60-year-old woman, lives trapped in a iolent marriage. During a Mother’s Day celebration, life presents her with an opportunity to break free from her daily reality.
https://www.instagram.com/hambrientos_films
