Movies: Unam

Since Rosa was little, people used to say around town that her grandfather was a black dog. The legend, belonging to the Valley of Oaxaca, spoke of a man who had the ability to turn into a black dog and roam the streets at night. Through images of th...

Samuel is a taxidermist in charge of dissecting a fish, however, he begins to be stalked by his neighbor who seems to be plotting something terrible against him. Samuel becomes obsessed with this idea, and little by little he will unravel the truth o...

One song traces a pathway from oral poet and Mazatec shaman Maria Sabina's tradition to Mazatec rapper Xéti NdáJnio and Medicine woman Zara Monrroy, also a poet, rapper and dancer from the Comcaac Nation. Two stories of indigenous rappers struggling ...

Gerardo returns home with a pack of dogs barking in the background on a dark night. Inside his house he will find an altar with flowers and orange lights. Now it will be the silence that will guide his steps to find out what is on that altar....

Ulises hasn't seen his friends since they graduated from high school. But now, walking to the reunion party, he is full of hope and joy to relive his past glories and rekindle the passion he had with Paulina, the girl he was always in love with but n...

Through a choral diversity of testimonies, the documentary explores the myth of the axolotl, transporting us from the story of a chinampero whose lifestyle reflects the environmental decay of Mexico City, to the efforts of a group of scientists racin...

Upon the death of his grandfather and playmate, Bruno, an 8-year-old boy, embarks on a journey in a magical world, trying to finish the unfinished story he was building with his grandfather to become a king....

Twenty-one-year-old Julia had to leave her daughters under the care of a children's shelter house. Five years later, Julia keeps fighting to rebuild her life and get reunited with her daughters....

Effort to construct an audio-visual dance between the body of an 90-year old man and the body of his house, that has become an extension of himself....

Luisa and her sister Estela will play hide and seek during a particular night. They both have suffered an important loss in their family, the mourning and grief will be present inside their house all night long....

In this documentary, we learn about five stories that converge at the same point, the bathroom. Each bathroom tells the story of its inhabitant....

A trip that the author makes to a distant beach trying to find the place where his grandfather made a painting years ago....

A film essay that explores the relationship between film and memory, based on the personal memoir of the director. An autobiographical attempt to analyze this relationship going from the individual to the collective. From Chris Marker to Hitchcock an...

Gilberto leaves his home on the last day of his father's life, travelling around the city in search of the places that were meaningful to him: his old house, the museum where he worked, and the streets of a very lively city. This escape becomes a rec...

Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat....

Jaime, a nostalgic old man, gets a device that can make him relive his memories, which he uses to see the last Christmas he lived with his family in 1995. This will show him that all memories have a price....

In a mix-up, Tamara, an axolotl puppet, is forced to recover her mother's necklace from the least expected place....

During an awkward family gathering, María, a young lady going through a love crisis, discovers a secret that will transform her reality....

A journey through the day of a worker in the form of memories and sensations, through which we will reflect on the slow passage of a life dedicated to work....

Poncho, an 8-year-old boy, becomes obsessed with finishing a time machine, since he wants to meet Papá Nacho, his grandfather, again; who passed away months ago....