Movies by Sebastián Aguirre
CARNAL
Olivia confesses to a priest that she accepted a dinner invitation from a sophisticated and artistic couple. While Olivia feels a complex confusion about what happened in the dinner, Camila's boyfriend searches for her without success after her disappearance.
Güeros
Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Perfect Obedience
The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sa...
Vortex
An alienated man, has no idea of what's going on outside his decrepit apartment in Burbank. When surrealistic events start happening around him, an inner struggle begins in which he'll have to figure out whether there's a strange presence haunting him or if it's just all inside his head.
Edna
Two distanced brothers meet again after some years of silence. In the funeral, they hear about a secret society called Edna, related with forgery and art robbery. They're looking for them to kill the two brothers
Velvet
Ale and her best friend Rubén, witness the brief sighting of a comet. She hangs on to the moment.
The Song of the Dead Children
Five children are isolated with their father on a lonely beach after the death of their mother. As the days go by, the children start torturing their father.