Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
Ciudad is an immersion into the neighborhoods of Mexico City, offering a diversity of viewpoints, which, when put together, skillfully combine to make the city.
Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
Director Sofía Peypoch scans and digs into the earth to confront traumatic memories and keep alive the memory of those we are attempting to erase.
EARTH ALTARS
- Sofía Peypoch
- 2023
- Mexico
- s.t. English
- 68 min
Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
On a mission on a beautiful Pacific island, Mexican soldiers reflect on their choice of life and exist, for a moment, far from the violence that plagues the country.
Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
By observing the mundane activities of a quiet street in Mexico City, and a bird's nest that overlooks them, this posthumous minimalist film pays tribute to kind parenting.
MALINTZIN 17
- Mara Polgovsky, Eugenio Polgovsky
- 2022
- Mexico, Switzerland
- s.t. French and English
- 64 min
Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
Through a gentle yet disarmingly frank dialogue with his mother Hilda, Tzotzil director Xun Sero gives us rare and precious insight into the women of his community.
Focus Mexico : Light Between the Shadows
As the number of missing persons in Mexico rises, this film-essay offers a narrative, anthropological and archaeological exploration of the roots of this violence.
TOTEM
- Unidad de Montaje Dialéctico (UMD)
- 2022
- Mexico, Chile
- s.t. English
- 65 min