Fernando Martínez

A mysterious man returns to a bar to reminisce about the dream girl he once lost, but soon realizes the reality of it all was his worst nightmare.

María, jeune maya de 17 ans, vit avec ses parents dans une plantation de café sur les flancs d’un volcan, au Guatemala. Elle voudrait échapper à son destin, au mariage arrangé qui l’attend. La grande ville dont elle rêve va lui sauver la vie. Mais à quel prix...

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.

Emilio cherche le grand amour de sa jeunesse avec l'aide de sa fille et de sa petite-fille. Renouera-t-il avec cet amour perdu avant que sa mémoire ne le trahisse ?

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he manages to lose the same cat three times only to realize, when the owners unexpectedly return, that their cat has been replaced by another.