Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia 2025

<p>Due to the nomadic work of his father, a military man, Pato has had to grow from city to city and create a manual to constantly say goodbye. Pato has only a couple of hours left to say goodbye to Isa, his first love and the first person immune to the manual. The only way to solve it is to travel through his memories, before the day ends.</p>

<p>Aki is struggling to continue her lifelong work as a dancer, actress and theatre director, while at the same time caring for her ageing father. As a series of international performances are cancelled, we witness doubts swirling on the surface and a steely resilience within. As life challenges collide with the trials of the creative process, this film is a sensitive contemplation on what we can control in our lives and what remains out of our hands. It&#39;s a film that explores creativity, authenticity and how to keep true to yourself as the years go by.</p>

<p>Hilda, a Mazahua language teacher, teaches children, youth, and adults in her community to speak and write in this Indigenous language, at a time when its use is gradually fading. Through each class, Hilda defends a way of living and remembering&mdash;her teaching is an act of resistance and love for a language that refuses to disappear. Her voice, her classroom, and her conviction uphold the collective memory of her people.</p>

<p>Victor, a taxidermist biologist consumed by the obsession of reviving his beloved chilhood pet, defies the laws of nature in his attempt to create a perfect version. However, his ambition drives him to cross boundaries beyond the nature.</p>

<p>Valeria and Sof&iacute;a, two passionate young women looking for a birthday adventure, steal a mysterious locket that transports them back in time, to the colonial era of Valladolid, now Morelia. Now, they must decipher the object&#39;s secret before they are trapped in another era.</p>

<p>Ofelia is a 17-year-old girl who wastes her time hanging out with her friend Daphne, baking pot brownies and selling them around town. One day, while visiting her friend&#39;s workplace, she is captivated by a newly arrived fish. On impulse, she decides to steal it. However, this separates the two friends. Ofelia decides to look for Daphne in all the places she used to go with her.</p>

<p>Chico is an emotionally repressed young man who comes from a violent environment. After the loss of his mother, his father&#39;s alcoholism worsens, leading Chico to suppress his emotions further due to abuse and mistreatment. His internal struggle triggers impulsive decisions with serious consequences, and his only refuge is the diary his mother gave him.</p>

<p>Mati, an 8-year-old girl, accidentally learns of her grandfather&#39;s death when she spies on a phone call from her father. Although Hugo doesn&#39;t know his daughter has heard the news and denies it, the two grieve together: Mati takes refuge in drawing, and with a new companion who appears in her life; Hugo chooses to remain silent. A new discovery by Mati will bring them closer together.</p>

<p>In the northern part of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. In the community of Achupil, Shaman Aurelio Olivares performs the transfer of power ritual for young Francisco Hern&aacute;ndez, accompanied by his parents and family, as well as the godparents of the ritual on a sacred hill, to receive his healing as a new healer.</p>

<p>Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare.</p>

<p>Antonio, an elderly man living in solitude, mourns the loss of Cristian, the love of his life.</p>

<p>The community of Urand&eacute;n, surrounded by Lake P&aacute;tzcuaro, moves to the rhythm of the dreams of children and young people who have found a way to transcend in canoeing. However, the vitality of this island is threatened by an unexpected turn of events: the drought begins to undermine not only their passion for the sport, but also their way of life.</p>

<p>A short film that evokes childhood, memory, and loss &mdash; exploring nostalgia through personal experiences in fewer than five minutes.</p>

<p>Gabriel was murdered and the killer was never found. This is the reconstruction of a memory.</p>

<p>Magali, a 30-year-old writer dissatisfied with her professional achievements, discovers on the night of her latest work&rsquo;s premiere that her younger sister, Karen, just 16, is pregnant. Determined to support her, she travels to her hometown to offer her the option of an abortion in Mexico City, should she choose to do so.</p>

<p>The documentary explores how the members of the Youth Symphonic Band &ldquo;M&uacute;sicos de Tir&iacute;ndaro&rdquo; have built their identity through individual and collective experiences shaped by memory, P&rsquo;urhepecha tradition, and social dynamics. With an interdisciplinary and ethical approach, it reveals how their multisituated experiences have become key elements in consolidating a constantly evolving sense of belonging.</p>

<p>The last woman in a forgotten town has a nightmare that confronts her with the limits of memory and death.</p>

<p>Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.</p>

<p>A curious thirteen-year-old Lola befriends a mysterious sea creature on the shore of her new hometown. Together, they venture to the nearby fun fair, where Lola confronts mixed feelings of longing and belonging as she invites her new friend into the place she now calls home. Against the backdrop of this fictional story, documentary recordings from interviews with Lola and her school peers tell a coming of age story about migration and identity.</p>

<p>Fast asleep at his desk after a long day at work, Javier suddenly wakes up to discover his cat starving. However, his mischievous and jealous drawings absorb the house keys and him in an attempt to get him to dedicate all his energy to them.</p>

<p>Unfolding me makes a simile between error and a disease of mood disorder, understanding error as something random, incomprehensible, disruptive. In three sleepless nights, Henrietta experiences a psychotic breakdown, in which her self becomes detached from her body. FOCINE Grants for preproduction, production, postproduction, exhibition and preservation.</p>

<p>Through a series of voicemails, a Mexican migrant worker struggles to connect back home as the harsh environment she now lives in is reflected onto the only thing she thought would be familiar: the sea.</p>

<p>An animated short film inspired by true events. Ruwen&#39;s Letter is a family memory and a document about a historic event that marked humanity. This handwritten object represents hope, longing, and the rebuilding of a bond between two siblings separated by an event that hurt many others.</p>

<p>At the edge of a dusty road, an abandoned dog desperately tries to return to his owner, only to be run over in the attempt. Injured and unable to survive in the shadow of his melancholic memories, he will find refuge among forgotten pets hidden in the waste of humanity.</p>

<p>A story about the relationship with music.</p>

<p>Two friends embark on an adventure to visit sculptures around the world. As they experience art and beauty together, their relationship blossoms and evolves.</p>

<p>Being a teenager in Michoac&aacute;n, one of the main theaters of the drug war, caused me to grow up in fear and confusion. In this short film, I try to capture the train of thought I experience whenever I reflect on that time. Focusing not on how the events happened, but how they felt. Reflecting on my past so I can, hopefully, heal some of it.</p>

<p>A woman offers a lock of hair to her magical puppet theatre. She turns the crank handle, and it gives her a gift, the artifact absorbs her into a performance of puppets and insects where her presence will illuminate life.</p>

<p>Toby and his human are enjoying a peaceful afternoon, but a fleeting flash of light outside the window breaks the harmony. Something has changed.</p>

<p>Emilio, an 8-year-old bunny, spends all his time playing on his cellphone. Pedro, his father, is worried about him and one day decides to take him along to his job as a taxi driver. During the ride, Emilio will realize the variety of experiences, characters, and places he has been missing out on by spending so much time on his phone.</p>

<p>A journey inward that delves into feminine identity&mdash;fragmenting, reimagining, and reclaiming its representations through stop-motion collage in a search for freedom.</p>

<p>Pedro, a young and curious moth, longs for a change in his wings and finds his way to an old tailor shop hidden somewhere in the world of insects. There, he is greeted by Patricia, a meticulous and intimidating spider, who warns him about the dangers of such a transformation. But every choice comes with a price, and in that workshop, nothing is as simple as it seems.</p>

<p>&quot;Somewhere Within Me&quot; is a self-reference documentary that delves into the profound friendship between Brahel and Andoeni. Their bond, formed in childhood, evolves through love, personal growth, and Brahel&rsquo;s gender transition. Reuniting after years, they rediscover their connection, exploring themes of identity, art, and self-discovery.</p>

<p>Do&ntilde;a Leonarda and Don Chabelo have been married for more than 60 years, they live in isolation and reflect on the complications that their old age and Don Chabelo&#39;s blindness bring, with a mature and long-standing love, expressing their fears and the care they have for each other.</p>

<p>The little shepherds ARMANDO and BRAULIO talk about their dreams while shepherding their flock in the majestic forest that extends at the foot of the Alfonso Serrano Large Millimeter Telescope.</p>

<p>As the sea swallows her village, Lupe leads the fight for relocation, but leaving means leaving behind the place that formed her. Between submerged memories and roots that endure, &quot;La Mar&quot; portrays the silent farewell to a home that can no longer be inhabited. An intimate contemplation of roots, loss, and the bond that unites us to the place we come from, even as it disappears.</p>

<p>In the crucible of clay and tradition, Rufina, a Ayuujk potter from Oaxaca, transforms her pain into art, defying machismo and violence. Mujer de Barro is a story of resilience, freedom, and the transformative power of creation.</p>

<p>A devastated town, the history that hurts and a forgiveness that has not yet come. Serapio, a young Yoeme, questions whether resentment is inherited.</p>

<p>Our Memory Skin is an audiovisual work that explores the connection between identity, memory and spirituality through Chinantec culture. The narrative follows a symbolic journey through the Chinantec jungle, where elements of nature, mythology and everyday life intertwine.</p>

<p>Paths portrays the encounter of three generations: a Mayan healer, his apprentice Delfino, and Alejandro, a young man who has spent two months learning from both. Through their intertwined paths, this short documentary explores the transmission of ancestral knowledge and the deep connection between traditional medicine and the lives it touches.</p>

<p>As a pre-Hispanic legend foretold, everything was flooded: the sun set into the sea, and humanity disappeared. Only a few survived. "Water Sun," filmed in Super-8, explores the mutation of the landscape and the materiality of the environment in a world transformed by water.</p>

<p>Shadi Abed is a Palestinian refugee trying to bring his family from Gaza to Mexico to save them from genocide and fulfill his father Kamal&#39;s dream. While the Abed family survives the bombings, Shadi battles Islamophobia and institutional bureaucracy to reunite with them.</p>

<p>Deep in the Sierra Madre Occidental in Nayarit, Tei Mɨayema is a secondary school founded by Ubaldo, who fights to provide education to the youth of his Wix&aacute;rika community without forcing them to leave their land. Their story reveals the challenges of preserving language and culture in the face of institutional rejection of their intercultural model, making Tei Mɨayema a symbol of strengthening their people&rsquo;s identity and autonomy.</p>

<p>A water dowser discovers a hidden fount where a well will soon be dug. As the excavation progresses, Cretaceous rock slabs reveal that this semi-desert stretch in the low Mixteca of Puebla was once part of the sea. In Santa In&eacute;s Ahuatempan, a Ngiba community where water scarcity is common, ritual practices call the rains and underground rivers.</p>

<p>An exploration of La Quebrada Cliff Divers&#39; ritualistic dives from 100 feet into the sea from a dangerous cliff, with an original poem recited by them and testimonies on faith, life, and death.</p>

<p>Luz, a divorced Los Angeles court translator, returns to her mother&rsquo;s home in Oaxaca, where she struggles with societal judgment over being divorced and childless. After meeting a local healer and hearing a folktale about widows reclaiming their lives, Luz begins dating and discovers her independence.</p>

<p>Two middle-aged couples travel together to a remote island. As bad news arrive from inland, the world around them begins to collapse and their relationships will soon follow suit.</p>

<p>Amare, an afro-descent Mexican woman was forced to migrate towards the United States of America to support her family, especially her sister, Cielo. Fourteen years later Amare returns to attend her father&#39;s wake, facing the long passage of her absence as she tries to reconcile with her sister, her mother, and the roots she left behind.</p>

<p>It&rsquo;s 1991. Ana Mar&iacute;a and Juan Manuel, a newlywed couple, receive a creature as a wedding gift. Will they be able to care for it for a year to preserve their marriage?</p>

<p>Napo is a clown who has lost the joy of living. Togo learns that his friend is sad, and decides to visit him, taking him to a play to try to help him regain some happiness.</p>

<p>When Sol decides to terminate an unplanned pregnancy, she realizes she&#39;s alone. The lack of support from her partner and the weight of social prejudices lead her to question the value of communication and the power of emotional responsibility.</p>

<p>While their mother unpacks removal boxes, Valentina (5) and Quique (11) run riot around the flat. Their parents have separated. When their father picks them up to show them his new, old life, the children receive a painful glimpse into the adult world.</p>

<p>A farewell opens up a strange world, in which Carmela sees transformations in her face and in everything around her. She will cross the city looking for something that can reconnect her with her desire.</p>

<p>In a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the collection of money from merchants and residents of the area is an everyday occurrence. On a sunny Sunday, in a housing unit located in one of these areas, a merchant has not paid his fee and the hired killers have come to give him an ultimatum.</p>

<p>Emiliano and Oliver, both sixteen, are inseparable. They spend their days together, sharing the same dreams for the future. But an unexpected event disrupts their present, leaving everything uncertain and unclear.</p>

<p>During a hot afternoon in Boyle Heights, a young girl navigates the innocence of childhood and the complexities of growing up while roaming through the vibrant courtyard of her family&#39;s restaurant. As day turns to night, she witnesses situations she may not fully grasp, but the unwavering support of her hardworking parents and older sister provide a haven for her to feel secure and loved.</p>

<p>Efra&iacute;n, a young gang member haunted by guilt, flees from the mother of his best friend, murdered amid the chaos of the neighborhood. As violence closes in and loneliness consumes him, he must choose between sinking into the abyss or fighting for a second chance before it&rsquo;s too late.</p>

<p>Bruno, a submissive factory worker, is invited to his boss&#39;s party. Upon arriving, he&#39;s sent for a bottle of tequila, which puts him at odds with his wife and the hostile environment where they live.</p>

<p>Carlos, desperate for not receiving a response from his boyfriend, takes a taxi that will take him to various parts of the city to look for him and to find himself through Aurelio, the driver of the vehicle that will transport him in the middle of the night.</p>

<p>A man discovers he has been crying for two months. His tears are strangely working in an inverse manner, transforming his interiors into a waterfall. He has to find a way to stop a cry he can&#39;t even feel.</p>

<p>Valeria works in a nocturnal flower shop where the plants emit eroticism. In her circle of friends, some humans have long, pointed ears, others have wings. Filmmaker Magaly Ugarte de Pablo tells a supernatural tale with roots in the Mexican fantasy tradition and a futuristic gender perspective. A gothic universe of self-discoveries, sexual awakenings and human beings in metamorphosis.</p>

<p>Benito is the physics teacher at a small high school. Neither the students nor the other teachers pay him much attention. His solitude is interrupted when he meets Lola, the new substitute biology teacher, and Benito falls madly in love with her.</p>

<p>Chucho is taken care of by his mother Alma for a few days, during which they will grow closer.</p>

<p>Olivia notices a blood stain on her panties during her 8th birthday. After trying to remove the stain, she tells her mother, who assumes that she has started her menstrual cycle. After a couple of interactions with her older cousin, Ernesto, her mother is no longer sure what is going on, however, they will only be able to talk about it 10 years later.</p>

<p>Victoria, a young aspiring writer, wanders through Mexico City in search of inspiration to continue her book. Lovers, romantic dealers, and lonely elderly women guide her along a path through extreme boredom, lightening the weight of the meaninglessness that has accompanied her for some time.</p>

<p>Bear and his neighbour Ivan are locked in a tense relationship. When Ivan&#39;s cat, Gretel, is attacked, Bear saves her and forms an unexpected bond with her. This act of compassion sparks an even greater conflict between the two, pushing their enmity to dangerous levels.</p>

<p>In a town where silence weighs more than words, 17-year-old Ana falls in love with Luc&iacute;a, a girl who arrives from the city. Amid furtive glances, prejudices, and the echo of what is expected of her, Ana embarks on an intimate journey into herself. A story about uncomfortable love, an identity that blossoms in secret, and the courage to choose one&#39;s own voice.</p>

<p>In the telephone booth of the community of Cinco Se&ntilde;ores (Ajalpan, Puebla), women wait every afternoon for news of David, who has disappeared. While men leave in search of their dreams, these women remain, anxious, hoping for a sign, trying to cling to hope in the face of uncertainty.</p>

<p>Evan, a young man from NY is on his way to Mexico for the first time, running away from a recent heartbreak. On his flight he meets Paloma, who is returning to her native Mexico after living abroad for many years. What seems at first like a random encounter, grows into a meaningful connection that transforms both of their journeys.</p>

<p>Seventeen years after their separation, Ernesto reunites with an old friend, only to realize he might be facing a complete stranger.</p>

<p>Lupita, a Rar&aacute;muri woman grieving a recent loss, seeks refuge in a snow-covered city in northern Mexico. In a bar, she meets Nayeli, a mestiza woman who invites her to spend the night at her home. In the quiet of that unexpected encounter, a connection begins to form, shaped by loneliness, the longing for closeness, and the invisible boundaries between two women who come from different worlds.</p>

<p>Margarita and Evaristo, a peasant couple, live alone in their cabin at the foot of the Malintzin volcano. Every day they wait for the bird called Techiq to announce them the return of their son, who migrated long ago in search of work and has not returned. One morning, Margarita gets sick, and a forest creature appears to Evaristo. Is it death, or something more?</p>

<p>In 2013 , a law was passed in Mexico allowing private companies to enter the gasoline sales business. Foreign brands began to flood people&#39;s daily lives.</p>

<p>In the battle of the marching bands, Fer, the group&#39;s commander, helps her best friend get into rhythm. But she realizes B&aacute;rbara is falling behind because she&#39;s hiding something. Feeling helpless, Fer clings to her instrument, continuing to play.</p>

<p>The tiger has been stolen, or who let it escape? They deprive even the residents of water. Who should you pay attention to? To order, to one&#39;s own judgment, to fantasy? The tiger prowls the silent road, hides behind the golden mountains. This fable about the transition to adulthood, tells of lands, towns and people, who can also be cruel. It faces the disappointment of seeing things as they are, when the roar of a tiger awakens.</p>

<p>After a violent confrontation, a wounded soldier is rescued by Yolanda, an elderly farmer, and her granddaughter Alejandra. The two live on a ranch in the middle of the mountains, where they hide the young man. While Yolanda decides whether they should help him, putting their own lives at risk, Alejandra will try to confirm her own suspicions.</p>

<p>&Agrave;via, which means grandmother in Catalan, portrays Montserrat Gispert Cruells, who as a child flees Barcelona with her family during the Spanish Civil War and arrives in Mexico in 1941. Rodrigo, her grandson and the film&rsquo;s director, accompanies her in her final days as she reflects on her identity, her life as an ethnobotanist, her family legacy, exile, and the right to a dignified death. Together, they wander through her garden of memories.</p>

<p>Over the span of one racing season, the strikingly intimate Backside foregrounds the lives and actions of immigrant workers who look after prized racehorses at Churchill Downs barns in Louisville Kentucky &mdash; the site of the famous Kentucky Derby.</p>

<p>In the Isthmus of Oaxaca, Binniz&aacute;: Guardians of the Clouds celebrates Indigenous creativity and storytelling, revealing how these traditions preserve cultural heritage for future generations.</p>

<p>Boca Viejo portrays the fragility and strength of a small coastal town in southern Mexico that refuses to leave its territory.</p>

<p>In the midst of an unprecedented wildfire crisis encircling a major Latin American city, a dedicated team of forest firefighters unites to combat the flames, grappling with both a climate emergency and social collapse.</p>

<p>This is the story of two pianists: Romayne and Romeyno. Romayne, an American musician, left the comfort of Europe more than 30 years ago to learn about the Rar&aacute;muri cosmogony in the Sierra Tarahumara. Romeyno, his Rar&aacute;muri godson, is a young pianist struggling to make his way in classical music in Mexico. A journey in opposite directions, where both musicians search for their own identity.</p>

<p>Olimpia Coral Melo did not set out to become a feminist icon. The humiliation after her sex-tape went viral, made her want to give up her own name. She spent thirteen years promoting a law against cyber sex violence in Mexico. Now, as Olimpia Law reaches strongly throughout Latin America, she&rsquo;ll have to reconcile with her wounds and retrieve the name that shame tried to take from her.</p>

<p>Throughout its path to the Gulf of Mexico, the Apulco river is threatened by several extractive projects. In the high mountains of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, inhabitants from the surrounding communities struggle to defend their land, water and life, as they share the power and joy of saying &ldquo;no!&rdquo;</p>

<p>Exploring the origins and development of colonialism, several stories intertwine across the tides of the Pacific Ocean. Following the route of the Manila Galleon&mdash;which sailed between the Philippines and the ports of New Spain transporting Chinese goods between 1565 and 1815&mdash;time slithers like a snake: past and present</p>

<p>At the foot of Tepozteco, a sacred hill that governs the winds and fertility, lies the small town of Tepoztl&aacute;n. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Karla&#39;s body and mind are undergoing a revolution. While Karla navigates her transition, Kani shapes eight years of footage into a joyful film, as they handle the vagaries of a rural trans adolescence together.</p>

<p>In 1976, the new facilities of the Military College, designed by architect Agust&iacute;n Hern&aacute;ndez Navarro, were inaugurated. Perhaps the latter didn&#39;t fully appreciate the congruence of his proposal with the vital force of this space. By depicting the cadets&#39; daily lives, the documentary becomes an x-ray not only of the Military College, but of Mexico as a whole. The documentary portrays reality, but presents it as fiction.</p>

<p>In the heart of Mexico City, Melissa and Claudia, a married couple for over 20 years and the proud parents of five, navigate Melissa&#39;s own version of gender identity. Through laughter, conflict, and unconditional love, they challenge binary thinking and embrace Melissa&#39;s paradoxical evolving self &mdash; a bold and uncanny celebration of identity, resilience, and the challenges of the path of becoming one&#39;s true self.</p>

<p>Imagine that by 2050, we succeed in stopping the planet&rsquo;s deterioration. This documentary follows groups from Mexico, Spain, and Germany as they fiercely defend their lands from industrial destruction and build a global network of resistance.</p>

<p>Victoria Clay Mendoza follows Benjamin Pech in his final year as principal dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet. Between them, a friendship emerges in which they mirror each other: she faces the need to return to Mexico to care for her mother diagnosed with Alzheimer&rsquo;s, while he confronts a hip injury that brings an end to his stage career. A visual essay on the loving acceptance of what comes to an end.</p>

<p>Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we&#39;ll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice.</p>

<p>Chuy deported, returns to his violence-torn hometown in Sinaloa after 11 years. As he reconnects with an old friend who&#39;s now a hitman, he must face the dark past that made him flee and find his identity in a changed world.</p>

<p>Elida, a 16-year-old girl, is forced by custom and tradition into an arranged marriage with Dami&aacute;n, an older and haughty man. However, she refuses to continue these old ways because of her love for Olivo, a young man who constantly invokes his deceased father.</p>

<p>A candle vendor encounters a middle-aged man planning to end his life. Rather than dissuading him, she offers her unexpected assistance.</p>

<p>A drifter who sleeps with truckers meets a reserved driver and joins him hauling freight across northern Mexico. As they grow closer on the road, the drifter&#39;s past threatens them both.</p>

<p>The fears of five stoic young siblings abandoned by their parents mix with those of their schizophrenic grandmother who now looks after them, blurring and gradually dissolving the boundary between reality and imagination.</p>

<p>Basilio, a new caretaker of a deserted beach who stops receiving his salary, must decide whether to stay in this refuge or return to his village.</p>

<p>Mexico City. Juana (45) is a lonely journalist who copes with her monotonous existence working at the Siglo XXI newspaper and visiting her senile mother. For over a decade, Juana has mastered the art of burying her traumas, until a name takes her back: Pedro N&uacute;&ntilde;ez, a corrupt politician and suspect of running a child pornography ring and of the murders of her boyfriend and colleague. Juana will do everything in her power to obtain justice.</p>

<p>A forest ranger fights to protect the forest around her village from illegal logging. Filmed with non-professional actors it portrays the real-life struggles of environmental defenders across Latin America against deforestation.</p>

<p>Laura, an introverted thirteen-year-old girl, arrives in a small, secluded town enveloped by eerie palm plantations and an imposing forest. As she starts her new life there with a reconfigured family, Laura glimpses a hidden world where a chilling legend about a forest-dwelling beast that preys on women circulates. At first, she dismisses it as a childish fantasy, but when she meets the radiant Daniela, their friendship quietly ―but surely― takes her on a journey that unravels the true nature of the beast.</p>

<p>A fourteen-year-old must care for his bedridden father with multiple sclerosis, but when his neighbor invites him to a party, his world is turned upside down.</p>

<p>Seven strong-willed women fight to save their home from foreclosure. An 8-year-old girl, Roberta, navigates her unconventional family dynamics - a fatherless household with diverse feminine influences.</p>

<p>As Zendy prepares for the day&#39;s sale, she shares her deepest dreams and desires, wrapped in the aroma of seasonal sweets. An honest portrait of how tenderness transforms the everyday, creating a loving atmosphere in the life of a family in Sudzal, a small Mayan community in central Yucat&aacute;n.</p>