Jacobo Lieberman

Lucca's World (2025)

Determined to help her son, who has cerebral palsy, Bárbara takes her family to India for an experimental treatment. ...

Down the Rabbit Hole (2024)

Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy. ...

You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack (2024)

Through key testimonies, this documentary looks at a gang rape that took place during the 2016 San Fermín festival and sparked protests worldwide. ...

The Echo (2024)

In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. ...

The Black Demon (2023)

Oilman Paul Sturges' idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get h ...

Sansón and Me (2023)

Borders have defined Sansón's life. There's the physical and psychological border between Mexico and the US. And now, looking at a life behind bars, there's the one that separates him from his loved ones. Since it is forbidden to film inside the jail, Rey ...

Oaxacalifornia: The Return (2021)

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see the changes that have settled over them, and follows the family on their return to Mexico. ...

Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors. ...

I'm Leaving Now (2019)

After 16 years in Brooklyn, working three low-paying jobs and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children, undocumented immigrant Felipe decides to return home to his family in Mexico. But when he informs them of his plans, he discovers that ...

Chicuarotes (2019)

Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician's union, which could transform their live ...

Leona (2018)

Ariela, a traditional Jew, meets Ivan, a young man who is not Jewish with whom she begins a secret relationship despite her family beliefs. ...

Rita, the Documentary (2018)

An aesthetic and politic portrait of Mexico's 90s decade through the biography of artist Rita Guerrero, who developed in different fields, mostly music and theater. ...

Witkin & Witkin (2017)

A pair of identical twins, one a photographer and the other a painter, have very little in common. ...

Mamartuile (2017)

The President of Mexico is in the last period of his term and only counting the days before his retirement. It appears to be a quiet adieu, until an international conflict has him treading murky waters. ...

Tempestad (2017)

A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to south Mexico, both testimonies collide and take us to the center of a storm: a ...

You Will Know What to Do With Me (2016)

Nicolás, a photographer, has suffered epilepsy since childhood and he is forced to take care of himself and sacrifice a lot, though he lives a normal life. On the other hand, Isabel is a woman who, apparently, has her whole life figured out although her m ...

Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (2016)

Puentes de Salud is a volunteer-run clinic that provides free medical care to undocumented immigrants in south Philadelphia. Here, doctors and nurses work for free to serve people who would otherwise fall through the cracks. Clinica de Migrantes, a potent ...

A Monster with a Thousand Heads (2016)

When Sonia receives the news that her husband's cancer has progressed to a critical stage, she races to secure the insurance company's approval for the care that can help him. ...

Beyond My Grandfather Allende (2015)

Marcia, granddaughter of Salvador Allende, the first democratic socialist president who was overthrown by the Army in September 1973, seeks to reconstruct the personal and familiar image of her grandfather, buried by his historical person, her exile and th ...

Ramona (2014)

Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind. ...

Panama Canal Stories (2014)

Five shorts spanning a century on lives impacted by the Panama Canal. Men, women and children who are influenced by the existence of the "Canal", the event that changed the history of not only a country but the world. ...

The Golden Dream (2013)

A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California. ...

Who Is Dayani Cristal? (2013)

An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. ...

Flight of the Butterflies (2012)

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interes ...

The Delay (2012)

Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone: she watches over everyone, sleeps very little, and works too much. She's increasingly overwhelmed. One day, on impulse, María decides to abandon Agustín. ...

The Tiniest Place (2011)

Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country's civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their community. Soulful, beautifully rendered, this amazing debut is an evocative testament to place, memory and the powe ...

The Forgiveness of Blood (2011)

A seventeen-year-old boy and his younger sister's dreams and aspirations are put on hold when their father is accused of murder. ...

Carrière, 250 Meters (2011)

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemetery ...

Visa to Paradise (2010)

Narrated by himself, by those who knew him and those he rescued, Gilberto Bosques describes the action taken between 1939 and 1942, in Marseille, as Consul General of Mexico in France, where he saved tens of thousands of people: Republicans Spanish, Jews, ...

Kassim the Dream (2009)

A man proves that against all odds, he can turn tragedy into inspiration by becoming a world class champion, in this gripping tale of survival and courage. ...

Insignificant Things (2008)

Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some ...

Tear This Heart Out (2008)

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of pos ...

The Desert Within (2008)

To redeem himself from a great sin, a man dedicates himself to building a church. ...

One Minute to Nine (2007)

One Minute to Nine (also known as "Every F---ing Day of My Life") chronicles Wendy Maldonado's last five days of freedom before she and her son were sentenced for the manslaughter of her husband, and the years of domestic abuse the family experienced prior ...

Trade (2007)

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also ...

My Life Inside (2007)

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her fa ...

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family. ...

The Eye on the Nape (2001)

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship. ...

A Breakfast Chronicle (2000)

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the ...

ANACHRONISMS (2000)

Three different ways of facing the apocalypse five hours before the end of the world. fantastic and romantic moments of love, an anxious waiting time and the desperate search for pepper in an apocalyptic and crazy world. Events cross and mix. Time seems to ...

Sr. X (2000)

La historia de I y O (1999)

Once upon a time there was a couple who hid their emotions, until one day chance knocked on their door. ...

Frontera (2022)

During the last moments of a romantic involvement with an older man, Martina finds herself deeply overwhelmed by disappointment and confusion, left alone to question who she really is. ...

Oliverio and the Pool (2022)

When something unexpected happens in Oliverio's family, all he wants to do is walk away. He settles on a deckchair by the pool and decides there is no reason to move. Life swirls around him, revealing secrets and presenting new challenges. Through moments ...

This Is Not a Comedy (2021)

A comedian finds new meaning in his life when his best friend asks him to be her sperm donor, and he meets a girl who connects with the cosmos. ...

Crescendo (2019)

Victoria is auditioning for second violin at the prestigious string quartet lead by her teacher Antonio Montenegro. The night before the audition, Victoria attends a cocktail party with the intention of remaining on his good side. ...

Rita, the Documentary (2018)

An aesthetic and politic portrait of Mexico's 90s decade through the biography of artist Rita Guerrero, who developed in different fields, mostly music and theater. ...

Las mujeres invisibles (2018)

Hipólita is a domestic worker who, like her mother before her, has worked in Samuel's enormous colonial house for decades. After Hipólita becomes aware of class differences and Samuel invades her privacy, she decides to take control of her work and her l ...

Mamartuile (2017)

The President of Mexico is in the last period of his term and only counting the days before his retirement. It appears to be a quiet adieu, until an international conflict has him treading murky waters. ...

You Will Know What to Do With Me (2016)

Nicolás, a photographer, has suffered epilepsy since childhood and he is forced to take care of himself and sacrifice a lot, though he lives a normal life. On the other hand, Isabel is a woman who, apparently, has her whole life figured out although her m ...

Rock Hours (2016)

After Elena suffered an accident, her father Anselmo is forced to take care of her. Despite not having a very good relationship they will be immersed in a coexistence that will change their emotional bond. ...

Santa Sangre (1989)

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name. ...