Viewfinder Films

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.

Maria, a primary school teacher, does her best to inspire a class of 10-year-olds, but is unable to because of one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child’s behavior spiraling, she makes a series of bad decisions that lead to her accidentally taking and locking this “bad apple” in her home. Maria tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament.

Set majorly Pamplona in 1965, follows the life of American writer Alan Jolis as he awakes to a vivid sensual world and grows up emotionally.

Federico Solorzano, paleontologist and collector, lives the last months of his life in his house in Guadalajara, Mexico. His collections count over 500 thousand objects ranging over a broad variety of kinds. His granddaughter Daniela dives into them, trying to understand her grandfather and his relationship to the world.