CARLOS REYGADAS

Best Director Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for an iridescent poem of memory, anguish, and desire, in which Carlos Reygadas abandons realism in favor of inner truth, and distorted cinematography immerses the viewer in a dreamlike dimension. — A wealthy architect and his family leave the city and move to a remote country mansion. There, their new reality collides with his dreams and desires, and the boundaries between experience and fantasy blur. — Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2012

In his third feature film, Carlos Reygadas won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for a film with minimal dialogue and naturalistic cinematography, offering a transcendental reflection on faith and love that culminates in a cathartic experience. — In a Mennonite community in northern Mexico, a husband and father is tormented by guilt over an extramarital affair, destabilizing his family and social life. — Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2007 Best Film | Chicago International Film Festival | 2007

Continuing his thrillingly unclassifiable journey through the landscape of contemporary cinema, Carlos Reygadas blends social realism, religious symbolism, and explicit sexual imagery, composing a provocative and morally charged enigma about guilt and divine grace through personal collapse. — A tour guide in Mexico City becomes involved in an illegal kidnapping scheme. When the child dies, he confesses the crime to his boss’s young daughter, who works as a prostitute in a luxurious brothel. One crime leads to another, and the man embarks on a self-punishing path toward redemption. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2005 FIPRESCI Award | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 2005

In his stunning debut, which established him as a unique voice in contemporary cinema, Carlos Reygadas explores the inseparable unity of nature, religion, body, and soul, through an existential journey into uncharted cinematic genres and hauntingly beautiful images. — A cynical and disillusioned man travels from Mexico City to a remote canyon to commit suicide. There he meets a devout elderly widow and stays in her crumbling house. Although they exchange only a few words, her humanity reignites his desire to live. — Golden Camera - Special Mention | Cannes Film Festival | 2002 Critics Award - Honorable Mention | São Paulo International Film Festival | 2002 Best Director | Thessaloniki International Film Festival | 2002 FIPRESCI Award | Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival | 2002