Mario Balandra

Movies

A Separate Wind
Cipactli
Omar (15) and Karina's (12) mother has a stroke during the family holidays. The siblings, drifting apart, will start a long journey through Mexico towards their grandmother's house. On the road they will face a broken and divided country. Where mistrust, resentment and violence are everywhere. Diverse characters -strangers on their own land- will lead them, in labyrinthic stages, until their final destiny.
El principio de la espiral
Ana dies while attempting to have an abortion. Jeronimo, her boyfriend, falls into a deep depression after his failed suicide. Ana's mother takes care of him bringing him back to the family. Jeronimo, distraught, should make final decisions about what is right even given …his shaken mental state.
El último canto del pájaro cú
Ulises
Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. Lauro, a young and smiling nearby patient accompanies him on his final agony, reliving all Ulises' missed opportunities.