Fernando Martínez

Quando Emilio (Oscar Martínez) é diagnosticado com Alzheimer, ele e sua família resolvem partir em busca do seu amor de infância.

Amores Gatos is an experimental tragicomedy about a wannabe-poet jack-of-all-trades dilettante that earns his living as a cat-sitter in NYC. On a raucous night on the job he manages to lose the same cat three times only to realize, when the owners unexpectedly return, that their cat has been replaced by another.

Maria, uma menina maia de 17 anos, vive em um isolado vilarejo guatemalteco nas costas de um vulcão ativo. Um casamento arranjado a aguarda. Embora sonhe em conhecer a cidade, seu status de indígena não permite que ela vá a esse "mundo moderno". Até que Maria engravida e uma complicação faz com que a garota seja salva justamente por esse mundo moderno. Mas a que preço?

Ignacio is shooting a documentary on the people who disappeared in 1982 during the armed conflict in an indigenous Guatemalan village. Amongst the families are Delfina and her son Juan. Delfina still hopes to find her husband, but Juan knows who was responsible for the disappearance of his father: someone who still lives in the same village.

In Guatemala, violence is contagious. The neighbors of Villas de La Esperanza, in fear of an eventual invasion of those infected by violence, arm themselves and patrol nights, risking their lives for the safety of their families. But battling violence with violence only spreads the contagion, and the neighbors will realise that the greatest danger is not what lurks outside their secure gated community. The real danger lies within. In Guatemala violence is contagious, and we are all infected.