A closer look at Malandra's Mind!
"The Enchantment of Consciousness" recounts the meeting between Leonardo, the film director, and Arcelia, the blue woman, who calls herself the “demon god.” Through rituals and the consumption of entheogenic plants, she reveals a spiritual vision that forces Leonardo to face a life-changing decision.
Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) Postproduction — Grantee 2022.
World Premiere at DocsMX 2023 — Official Selection.
Synopsis: Iñaki Oyarbide shares his vision of Butoh dance. Through the exploration of his body and the cathartic states he experiences while dancing, he reveals the connection between dance and creative energy: the ancestral memory of origin that lives in our DNA.
Our DNA
Aurora, an undocumented teenager living in Los Angeles with her mother, travels to Mexico in search of the father who abandoned her, only to uncover the reasons her mother never dared reveal his whereabouts and the secrets hidden in her own past.
A washed-up filmmaker accidentally poisons his neighbor’s beloved cat and, consumed by guilt, becomes entangled with a former cabaret singer whose secret youth may restore everything he has lost, if she never learns he was the cat’s executioner.
Don Lucio, a 90-year-old Yaqui sorcerer, rescues a newborn child beside his murdered mother and bargains with death for more years of life in exchange for the boy’s soul. Nine years later, death returns, and redemption becomes the final battle.
A local actress dies without ever fulfilling her dream of acting in a film. Through the testimony of her four daughters, the documentary explores grief, memory and the meaning of what is kept or discarded inside the home Teresa leaves behind, while she gets the opportunity to be one last time on stage.
Two in-laws in their sixties set off on a road trip to surprise their children and meet their newborn grandchild. As the miles unfold, grief, cultural differences and long-buried wounds push both women toward an unexpected reckoning.
After a fall from fame, Charly, a once-beloved TV host, discovers that his manager has secretly sold the rights to his image to create Charly.AI: a flawless digital version of himself. As the clone becomes more successful, desirable, and real than he ever was, Charly spirals into paranoia and obsession, willing to destroy everything, and everyone, to prove that he is still the original.