Omar Robles
About
Mexican. Director and producer. He has a degree in Audiovisual Arts at the University of Guadalajara. His documentary "Aurelia y Pedro" won a Special Mention in the Berlinale 2016, the Ariel Prize of the Mexican Academy and was nominated for the Students Academy Award. His second short film "The Banished" premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma. He is especially interested in LGBT+ films, and currently works with his production company Tardigrada in the production of documentary and fiction films.
Once I Left to Become Maria
In the wake of her father’s death, filmmaker Sofia Castellanos begins to reconnect with her mother, María. Little by little, she begins to understand the woman that was left abandoned all these years – her identity stored and buried in dusty old boxes, her beautiful singing voice no longer nurtured. As the filmmaker questions why her mother abandoned her dreams, the film explores themes of gender and femininity.
The Night Flowers
In a small and conservative indigenous village on the shores of Mexico’s largest lake, live a group of transgender youth - the self-ascribed “Night Flowers” - who struggle to uphold their gender identity every day. As each of them confronts their insecurities and fears head-on, within their oppressive environment - and their notion of freedom becomes more complicated - their strong bond will generate in them a sense of identity that they have yet to find within their own town.