Writing

Marina Stavenhagen

Known for

Writing

Credits

15 titles

Known for

Amor y venganza poster
6.3

Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.

Amor y venganza

1991

Zapatista Women poster
7.0

April 1994 in the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. The Zapatista women talk about the living conditions of Mexican indigenous populations and the life of peasant women. They explain the reasons for their struggle and their uprising.

Zapatista Women

1995

Sonata de luna poster
6.0

A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband.

Sonata de luna

1992

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

Have You Seen Lupita? poster
7.3

Lupita, a young mexican girl, runs away from her family who want to commit her into a hospital. She will start a journey that will take us into a world that seems crazier than she is. With her sensuality, innocence and romanticism, Lupita invites us to think that the world can be experienced in other ways.

Have You Seen Lupita?

2012

No artwork available
NR

Built on a lake and reshaped over centuries, Mexico City is a metropolis defined by water—scarce, overwhelming, and ever-present. Through its streets and its people, the film explores how this fragile relationship continues to shape a city that floods, thirsts, and slowly sinks.

Beloved City

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Behind the camera

Amor y venganza poster
6.3

Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.

Amor y venganza

1991

Zapatista Women poster
7.0

April 1994 in the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. The Zapatista women talk about the living conditions of Mexican indigenous populations and the life of peasant women. They explain the reasons for their struggle and their uprising.

Zapatista Women

1995

Sonata de luna poster
6.0

A high-strung love triangle of mystery and suspense arises between Julia, a beautiful and ambitious woman who, helped by Raúl, her lover, kill her husband.

Sonata de luna

1992

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

Have You Seen Lupita? poster
7.3

Lupita, a young mexican girl, runs away from her family who want to commit her into a hospital. She will start a journey that will take us into a world that seems crazier than she is. With her sensuality, innocence and romanticism, Lupita invites us to think that the world can be experienced in other ways.

Have You Seen Lupita?

2012

No artwork available
NR

Built on a lake and reshaped over centuries, Mexico City is a metropolis defined by water—scarce, overwhelming, and ever-present. Through its streets and its people, the film explores how this fragile relationship continues to shape a city that floods, thirsts, and slowly sinks.

Beloved City

—

FRIDA: THE GIRL JUST DOESN’T GO AWAY poster
NR

Explores the transformation from artist to icon of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, one of the most recognized influencers of our time. The many representations of her, beyond a single image have been appropriated by diverse groups from Chicanx and Mexican identity, disability to queer representation, just some of the diverse groups within which Frida Kahlo has become an inescapable reference and symbol. An extraordinary and unique phenomenon, Fridamania! Combines the iconic, mythic with an inexhaustible consumer culture.

FRIDA: THE GIRL JUST DOESN’T GO AWAY

2026

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo poster
NR

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as Werner Herzog and Eduardo Galeano reflecting on his work.

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

2017

Nahuí - the woman behind the legend poster
5.0

The woman behind the legend. Biographical film about Nahuí Olín, painter, model and poet born in the late nineteenth century and died in 1978, who lived in Paris and San Sebastian, and throughout his life rubbed shoulders with artists like Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera , Frida Kahlo or David Alfaro Siqueiros, among many others.

Nahuí - the woman behind the legend

2020

Dentro de la noche poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Dentro de la noche

1991

María: La Diva Eterna poster
6.9

Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and independent women who are in control of their lives. Known as La Doña, she was a beautiful and strong woman. Admired and ahead of her time, she is our eternal diva.

María: La Diva Eterna

2023

In The MIddle of Nowhere poster
5.7

A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.

In The MIddle of Nowhere

1993

Round Trip poster
6.5

Lucia is a Mexican girl from a poor town who sets her mind to cross the border to The United States to find her son's father who she hasn't heard from in years. On the road she meets Fernanda, a high middle class girl that has unresolved issues with her ex-boyfriend and is willing to travel hundreds of miles to resolve them once and for all. Lucia and Fernanda are two girls from two very different social backgrounds, yet they travel the same road hoping to reconnect with the men they love. But it seems destiny has brought them together in their individual quests to share a path, to know each other and to know themselves a little better and discover if happiness is at their destinations.

Round Trip

2009

Whispers Of Silence poster
NR

At the end of World War II, the concentration camps were liberated. Some of the survivors managed to contact relatives in Mexico who helped them with visas, and they were able to arrive in this new and strange country. Thus, they gradually began the difficult process of adapting to a new culture, a new language, and a new climate.

Whispers Of Silence

2021

No artwork available
8.0

The tale of a guard at Chapultepec Castle that has fallen in love with a beautiful ghost who haunts its hallowed halls, and his tragic but happy end.

The Last Moon

1990