Teresa Sánchez

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building (2026)

Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno ...

Xibalba Monster (2025)

Rogelio (8) wants to unravel the mystery of death. When his parents send him off to Yucatán, he meets the Xibalba Monster, an old hermit who is sick but has made a deal with the Lords of the Underworld to remain amongst the living. ...

A History of Love and War (2025)

This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer faces trial for Mexico's violent history. The fourth feature from Santiago Mohar Volkow, Una historia de amor y guerra centres on real estate baron Pepe Sánc ...

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. ...

Crocodiles (2024)

A young photojournalist in the city of Veracruz, Mexico, will risk his life to dig up a shocking truth after picking up the investigation that his journalist friend and mentor left unfinished when getting killed by the organized crime. ...

Till Your Soul Dances (2024)

Alma, a middle-aged woman, really wants to attend dance classes. However, her busy daily routine of caring for her sick mother Gladys and the lack of cooperation from her brother Rubén prevent her from doing so. ...

Lázaro at Night (2024)

Three friends – a trio in love – get together after an audition. Their prosaic exchanges take a different turn when they remember how they met. ...

Heartbeat (2023)

The newly separated Leonor comes from the monied class, while sixteen year old aspiring ballerina Emilia does not. They begin a tense pas de deux waiting out Emilia's pregnancy in a remote country home, isolated from the world and each other. ...

Tótem (2023)

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded ...

The Color of The Room (2023)

Ramiro has been diagnosed with autism. He loves order, his music, his sheets, the rhythm of the day, and the color of his room. His mother, Aurora, who has cared for him for years, will not reveal the reason why she has decided to move her son to her best ...

firedream (2023)

A Mexican teen Lucas in a gray industrial town befriends co-worker Oscar. Oscar leaves, entrusting Lucas with treasures. Through photography, Lucas captures observed light, finding connection and solace. ...

Eye Two Times Mouth (2023)

Luz works at a gallery but her real passion and purpose in life is as an opera singer. She's been invited to audition for Madame Butterfly at one of the principal theatres in Mexico City. Luz must practice. Her friends Lycian and Chío instruct her. How to ...

Flora (2022)

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda's Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking o ...

Dos estaciones (2022)

Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign ...

Estanislao (2021)

After 15 years, Mateo returns to the old textile factory to say goodbye to his recently deceased mother. Incidentally, he will have to spend time with his alcoholic father, whom he can't stand. ...

El Mito (2021)

In Querétaro at the end of the 17th century, a spanish maiden has given birth to a creature. ...

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. ...

Tere (2021)

Fauna (2021)

Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their father's only interest in them is sparked by Luisa's actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel ...

The Darkness (2020)

A former elementary school teacher emerges badly bruised on the shore of a lake. After a lengthy trek through the hot Mexican sun, she lands at the primary school where she once worked. ...

Ellos lo saben (2020)

Recuerdo De Mi Presentación (2020)

My Skin, Luminous (2019)

Enigmatic and deceptively playful in tone, this film from Gabino Rodríguez, in collaboration with Nicolás Pereda, boldly transforms mundane, realist observations at a rural Mexican schoolhouse into fantasy and a sly comment on childhood, rituals, and rac ...

The Chambermaid (2019)

Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life. ...

Minotaur (2015)

Minotaur takes place in a home of books, of readers, of artists. It's also a home of soft light, of eternal afternoons, of sleepiness, of dreams. The home is impermeable to the world. Mexico is on fire, but the characters of Minotaur sleep soundly. ...

Andrea en una caja (2014)

Patricia and her partner Andrea have an argument over their life together, leaving their relationship in limbo. When Patricia leaves for a work trip, Andrea makes a decision to which might change their lives forever. ...

Greatest Hits (2012)

When Gabino's father returns home after a long absence, the two men awkwardly attempt to re-establish a relationship; but Gabino and his mother quickly tire of this man who has become a stranger to them and decide to kick him out, before realizing that he ...

Summer of Goliath (2011)

Summer of Goliath is a documentary/fiction hybrid that narrates various stories of the people of the town of Huilotepec in rural Mexico. Teresa's husband has disappeared and she believes he has left her for another woman. Gabino, her son, is a soldier who ...

Perpetuum Mobile (2009)

An itinerant mover works from the streets of Mexico City with his partner and lives with his beleaguered mother. A heightened tension within the home – by the absent older brother and unmentioned father. Gabino's casual pursuit of a career is interrupted ...

Where Are Their Stories? (2007)

Vicente (Gabino Rodríguez) is a young farmer in a rural village who scrapes by while taking care of his ill grandmother. Several of Vicente's uncles intend to their ailing mother's land without her knowledge. Vicente seeks help from the municipal presiden ...

Jodidos polleros (2007)

Antonio and Jorge compete in the transportation of undocumented Mexican migrants to Texas, the new El Dorado. Their gangs are heavenly armed, and do not fear the police. Gilberto is determined and courageous, and wants to arrest them. ...

The Days of Love (1972)

In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen. ...