Mauricio Esquivel

If We Don't Burn, How Do We Light Up the Night (2025)

13-year-old Laura feels adrift in her newly stitched-together family. Just as the forests and endless palm plantations begin to feel like home, she uncovers a lurking secret that threatens the women she holds close. ...

Corners and Other Things That Fade (2023)

Agustín, a 70-year-old retired baseball player with a serious heart problem, faces a strong dilemma: whether or not to return to the baseball field. ...

I Have Electric Dreams (2023)

Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life. ...

Night Light (2022)

Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger siblings from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back. ...

Parcialmente Nublado Con Peligro De Tormenta (2020)

Land of Ashes (2020)

Selva, thirteen years old, discovers that when we die we just shed our skin. We can turn into wolves, goats, shadows, or anything as long as your imagination allows it. ...

Violeta at Last (2017)

Recently divorced, 72-year-old Violeta lives alone in her childhood house, tending to her lush tropical garden and making plans to turn her property into a boarding house. When she discovers the bank is about to take away her house, she breaks all the rule ...

Selva (2017)

The land expels and the ocean drowns, departures repeat themselves in every generation. Selva dances within voices and memories; in a game that prepares her for the inevitable separation. ...

Serva me, Servabo te (2024)

Seeking to save their toxic relationship, a couple decides to perform a ritual to contact the god Dionysus, but what they really summon are the violent thoughts and impulses they have repressed from each other. ...