Direction: Natalia Almada

Direction Natalia Almada

Cast Adriana Barraza

Synopsis For 35 years Doña Flor has worked as a clerk in a government office, her life cloaked in order and routine. One morning she awakens to find her cat has died. Refusing to accept the loss of her sole companion,...

Direction Natalia Almada

Synopsis Documentary explores how humanity expresses itself with technology and the intended and unintended consequences of our tech-dominated world.

Direction Natalia Almada

Synopsis Told using Mexico's 200 year-old tradition of corrido music, To The Other Side recounts the story of an aspiring corrido composer facing two life-changing choices: to traffic drugs or unlawfully cross the border into the United States.

Direction Natalia Almada · Ivan Boccara · Jem Cohen · Carla Faesler

Synopsis In June 2009, Tamaas, an international non-profit arts organization, invited eight poets and filmmakers coming from France, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, and the United States, to Tangier, Morocco. These four poet-filmmaker pairs collaborated using Super 8 film and writing original text...

Direction Natalia Almada

Synopsis From dusk to dawn El velador accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords. In the labyrinth of the narco-cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us...

Direction Natalia Almada

Synopsis Past and present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather, General Plutarco Elías Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. Time is blurred in this visually arresting portrait...