Movies by Beto Benitez

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas
In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún ...

Paquete 3
El Cholo, a Peruvian taxi driver, flees from justice in his country and comes to Venezuela in search for a better future. After running into a gang of con-men who leave him penniless, he meets a peculiar group of Latin Americans who work for a gangster known as The Russian as hitmen. El Cholo is quickly trapped in a world of blood and ambition that makes him realize the true cost of life and death.

The Erection of Toribio Bardelli
After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief.

Bad Hair
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.

Ramón y Ramón
Having received the ashes of his father, with whom he had no more than a distant relationship, Ramón meets Mateo during lockdown. Despite their differences, a profound connection grows between them, prompting them to question themselves. Mateo decides to accompany Ramón on the journey to scatter the ashes in Huancayo. On the way, Ramón will realise that he was looking for answers to the wrong questions, and that he must heal from within in order to move on.