Gabino Rodríguez – MRQE

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building

Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.

Cobre

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the outskirts of an isolated mining town, Lázaro discovers a dead body. He thinks he has a respiratory illness and doesnt want to go back to the mine. Rumours, suspicion and desire surround him.

Fauna (2020/I)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Luisa and Gabino visit their parents in a mining town in the north of Mexico. Their fathers only interest in them is sparked by Luisas actor boyfriend when he acts out the role of a narco kingpin. To cope with family tensions, Gabino imagines a parallel reality of detectives and organized crime.

Toda La Luz Que Podemos Ver

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Maria, forced to marry a bandit, escapes into the woods with El Toro, fleeing her fate. Rosario, in love with a murdered general, watches her grave at the foot of a volcano.

Fausto

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literature, myth and local entanglements, the frontier between reality and fiction, and the seen and unseen, no longer apply.

Tormentero

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn’t have, spirits that materialize before him as his real family. Alcoholic and schizophrenic, surviving on a daily basis. But deep down he feels the time has come to regain what he lost several decades ago, when he brought the oil curse to his own island, the lush Ciudad del Carmen. At the same time at the mysterious Estero Pargo, the goddess Ixchel has been reborn and seeks to mate with humans in order to continue the cycle of life.

La 4ª Compañía

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes end up involving him with organized crime since The Dogs, who are also known as The 4th Company, a squadron of inmates at the service of the administration that controls the jail, its vice and its privileges. Corruption and crime have no limits; they ravage the city with car thefts, bank robberies and other crimes under the auspices of the authorities, the story takes place during the López Portillo presidency and his men.

Tenemos la carne

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.

Entre la noche y el día

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Francisco, a man with autism resides secluded, ignored and locked away. He’s a burden on his brothers, and decides to flee into the forest, where he befriends a rat.

Asalto al cine

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of four teenagers: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Childhood friends living in public housing in a rundown area of Mexico City, search to trump idleness. They toy with the idea of robbing a movie theatre. Afflicted by their past and present stance, each find the motivation to complete the deed. The adventure pushes them to face their own realities and jeopardizes the only valuable possession: friendship