A personal exploration by the director, who uses cinema for a social, architectural, and artistic tour of San Luis Potosí, scattered with passages from the filmmaker´s own past.
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The original title is "Potocine" (ES).
The film was directed by Sebastián R. R..
The screenplay was written by Sebastián R. R..
Cinematography was handled by Jim Garrido.

2017
During the Cold War, while the great powers fight for nuclear supremacy, a uranium mine is opened in Albalá, in the Spanish province of Cáceres, as well as a movie theater, a symbol of the prosperity of the village from then until its closure in 1975.

2024
Cinema is an art that brings joy to millions of people around the world. However, it is difficult to create and produce, but there is an organization that teaches children how to make films so they can create the stories they dream of.

2024

2026

2025
In Culiacán, Sinaloa, 11-year-olds Fabi, Josué, and Francisco bond over shared struggles in their elementary school and use a film workshop to express the violence that surrounds them. Six years later, they reunite to reflect on their experiences and the unsettling normalization of violence in their lives, exploring its impact on their futures.

2024
In Cañete there was a large movie theater in the center of town until the 1980s. At that time many things still worked. From a child's point of view, the short film transports us to an ordinary afternoon in Cañete, when people still happily went to the movies despite how difficult life was.

2026
One night, in a small bakery in a village in northern Spain, we accompany a baker who, through the contrast between the noise of heavy machinery and abrupt silences, works in solitude. His son, the author of the work, depicts the process: he projects his artistic and class concerns within the world of cinema by comparing the production of bread and the mechanisms of cinematographic creation.

2026
A film student, who denies being in love with his teacher, wonders what cinema is, what love is, and why we do what we do.

2025
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Potocine
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Español
Mexico

