A poetic and political film about border demarcations and their consequences, the struggle for survival of adobe brick makers in the Mexican-US border region and the magic of a river.
Santa Cruz del Islote in the Caribbean, more than 1,000 people living on roughly two and a half acres, the most densely populated island in the world. Living (and surviving) in a paradise that’s running out of fish …
The prostitutes of La Merced in Mexico City: between 50 and 80, often abused and beaten, courageous, strong and completely devoid of illusions. Highly intimate confessions brimming with burlesque humour.
Javier Toscana untiringly observes everyday coping techniques of handicapped people in Mexico City – until his eyes are suddenly at risk.
After an assassination attempt on the life of the Mexican president a man is locked up as a psychiatric case for the next 23 years. A record of the extinction of a human being.
Mysterious incidents occur in a Nicaraguan fishing village: divers re-emerge paralysed from the waters. A strong belief in mermaids correlates with the tragedies.
The touching portrait of two adolescents in Mexico. At the height of puberty they are forced to replace their parents for their younger siblings while their mother is in prison.
They spend every day by, in or on the ocean – the inhabitants of “Sacred Hill”, a rocky peninsula in the deep south of Mexico.
