Bruno Santamaría Razo

Directing

Bruno Santamaría Razo

Mexico City, Mexico

Born in Mexico City. Cinematographer and documentary director, graduated from the Cinematographic Training Center. Her first film, Margarita, presents an intimate look that is constant in her work, such as The best thing you can do with your life, Vivos and Artemio. His work has been shown at the Berlinale, Hot Docs, FIPA, Sheffield Doc Fest, Camerimage, FICG and FICM.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Margarita poster
8.0

Margarita is a woman who lives in the streets of Mexico City, a character who moves between lucidity and madness.

Margarita

2016

Margarita poster
8.0

Margarita is a woman who lives in the streets of Mexico City, a character who moves between lucidity and madness.

Margarita

2016

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building poster
NR

Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building

2026

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building poster
NR

Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building

2026

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building poster
NR

Mexico City, early 90s. The day Bruno turns 11, his growing feelings for his best friend Vladimir clash with the sudden announcement that his father has HIV. Like in salsa songs, his family tries to sing and dance their pain away. Thirty years later, Bruno films and reimagine the memory of what he could not quite perceive as a child.

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building

2026

Things We Dare Not Do poster
4.4

In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.

Things We Dare Not Do

2020

Things We Dare Not Do poster
4.4

In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.

Things We Dare Not Do

2020