Everardo González

Directing

Everardo González

Known for

Directing

Credits

19 titles

Bachelor's degree in Social Communications at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and a degree in Directing by CCC. In 2003 he finished his first documentary feature film La canción del pulque. His subsequent work was Los ladrones viejos and El cielo abierto, both have won awards and honorable mentions.

Known for

Wilderness poster
7.3

This is a movie built from impericia, from misunderstanding, from surprise and mutual amazement; it is a film that reflects on the idea of community, the relationship of mankind with the environment in which nature, beasts and human beings depend on each other to continue inhabiting a barren land.

Wilderness

2020

El Paso poster
7.0

This is a story about the families of those that once were our witnesses, our eyes and our voice, but were threatened, had to leave Mexico and forced to live in exile, seeking for political asylum. It is not about powerful journalists, it is about invisible reporters that represent the weakest links of the news network’s chain and now are living in an immigration limbo.

El Paso

2015

Lopon poster
NR

In the majestic Tristen Norbutse Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, families leave their children to start teaching the Bön, the oldest Buddhist tradition. Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, a sage of Tibetan origin, is revered and recognized throughout the world as one of the great living masters of this millenary spiritual tradition. Lopon seeks to delve into the reasons for the personal search for spirituality and how this practice is integrated into Western culture.

Lopon

2020

A Wolfpack Called Ernesto poster
6.7

World-renowned Mexican filmmaker Everardo González brings us inside the chilling world of Ernesto, an amalgam of various teenage boys, who, in choosing a gun and a life of organized crime, becomes both victim and perpetrator.

A Wolfpack Called Ernesto

2024

A 3 Minute Hug poster
6.5

As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented migrants and their relatives, divided by a wall, prepare to participate in an activist event. For three minutes, they’ll embrace in no man’s land for the briefest and sweetest of reunions.

A 3 Minute Hug

2018

Devil’s Freedom poster
7.3

Mexico, 2016. In some of the world's most dangerous cities life is not worth much. Looking into the eyes of the protagonists of violence, victims as well as executioners, helps to understand how fear inserted itself in the subconscious of our society. Through a network of concrete stories, we are facing the most obscure traits of the human psyche, the frail balance between humanity and evil.

Devil’s Freedom

2017

Behind the camera

Wilderness poster
7.3

This is a movie built from impericia, from misunderstanding, from surprise and mutual amazement; it is a film that reflects on the idea of community, the relationship of mankind with the environment in which nature, beasts and human beings depend on each other to continue inhabiting a barren land.

Wilderness

2020

El Paso poster
7.0

This is a story about the families of those that once were our witnesses, our eyes and our voice, but were threatened, had to leave Mexico and forced to live in exile, seeking for political asylum. It is not about powerful journalists, it is about invisible reporters that represent the weakest links of the news network’s chain and now are living in an immigration limbo.

El Paso

2015

El Paso poster
7.0

This is a story about the families of those that once were our witnesses, our eyes and our voice, but were threatened, had to leave Mexico and forced to live in exile, seeking for political asylum. It is not about powerful journalists, it is about invisible reporters that represent the weakest links of the news network’s chain and now are living in an immigration limbo.

El Paso

2015

Lopon poster
NR

In the majestic Tristen Norbutse Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, families leave their children to start teaching the Bön, the oldest Buddhist tradition. Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, a sage of Tibetan origin, is revered and recognized throughout the world as one of the great living masters of this millenary spiritual tradition. Lopon seeks to delve into the reasons for the personal search for spirituality and how this practice is integrated into Western culture.

Lopon

2020

A Wolfpack Called Ernesto poster
6.7

World-renowned Mexican filmmaker Everardo González brings us inside the chilling world of Ernesto, an amalgam of various teenage boys, who, in choosing a gun and a life of organized crime, becomes both victim and perpetrator.

A Wolfpack Called Ernesto

2024

A Wolfpack Called Ernesto poster
6.7

World-renowned Mexican filmmaker Everardo González brings us inside the chilling world of Ernesto, an amalgam of various teenage boys, who, in choosing a gun and a life of organized crime, becomes both victim and perpetrator.

A Wolfpack Called Ernesto

2024

A 3 Minute Hug poster
6.5

As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented migrants and their relatives, divided by a wall, prepare to participate in an activist event. For three minutes, they’ll embrace in no man’s land for the briefest and sweetest of reunions.

A 3 Minute Hug

2018

Devil’s Freedom poster
7.3

Mexico, 2016. In some of the world's most dangerous cities life is not worth much. Looking into the eyes of the protagonists of violence, victims as well as executioners, helps to understand how fear inserted itself in the subconscious of our society. Through a network of concrete stories, we are facing the most obscure traits of the human psyche, the frail balance between humanity and evil.

Devil’s Freedom

2017

Devil’s Freedom poster
7.3

Mexico, 2016. In some of the world's most dangerous cities life is not worth much. Looking into the eyes of the protagonists of violence, victims as well as executioners, helps to understand how fear inserted itself in the subconscious of our society. Through a network of concrete stories, we are facing the most obscure traits of the human psyche, the frail balance between humanity and evil.

Devil’s Freedom

2017

Drought poster
4.8

In northern Mexico, residents of a cattle-ranching community struggle to survive amid harsh conditions caused by an ongoing drought.

Drought

2013

Drought poster
4.8

In northern Mexico, residents of a cattle-ranching community struggle to survive amid harsh conditions caused by an ongoing drought.

Drought

2013

Pulque Song poster
9.3

Portrait of daily life and its inhabitants at the pulquería “La Pirata”. A homage to all those who drink pulque, to ranchera music, to the “barrio” and to pulque.

Pulque Song

2003

Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio poster
6.7

Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories of delinquents inhabiting the city’s streets, their alliances with high ranking police officials that allowed them to operate, the betrayals that followed, and the price they ended up paying.

Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio

2007

Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio poster
6.7

Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories of delinquents inhabiting the city’s streets, their alliances with high ranking police officials that allowed them to operate, the betrayals that followed, and the price they ended up paying.

Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio

2007

Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio poster
6.7

Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their distinctive code of ethics, the various categories of delinquents inhabiting the city’s streets, their alliances with high ranking police officials that allowed them to operate, the betrayals that followed, and the price they ended up paying.

Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio

2007

Aftershock poster
NR

Different stories regarding the earthquakes on Tuesday 19 September 2017.

Aftershock

2019

The Last Journey poster
NR

Dr. Federico attends the people with whom he shared his life, now septuagenarians with degenerative diseases, he tries to convince them to end their lives with dignity, like hundreds of patients he has helped to die. Not all of them understand him, nor share his postulates, but now they will have to accompany one of them in his last days.

The Last Journey

2024

Children of the Narco Zone poster
8.0

This short film speaks to how hard it is to teach in a violent atmosphere. Teachers have to adapt to union conditions, educational reforms, low wages, distances and isolation, and the great challenge in instilling in their students a moral code, in communities where this concept is fractured. How do you tell a child that his father or his brother’s actions destroy a society’s social fabric, when they think it’s normal to follow that moral code?

Children of the Narco Zone

2018

The Open Sky poster
8.0

First came the word, then the assassin's bullet, then the silence. This strong documentary by Everardo González about Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the voice of the voiceless in El Salvador, killed march 24th, 1980. Portrays the inevitable destiny of an announced crime and the beginning of the civil war.

The Open Sky

2011