Directing
Patricia Velásquez
Acting credits
6.5After a long period ofexile, Félix and Magui return to their country. Magui's fathers take them to one of the houses of the family. Félix resistance to adapt himself to the social reality of the country and the presence of "aliens" on the region start to trouble the chief of the family.
No tan lejos de Andrómeda
1999
5.0The Nicaraguan border in the eighties. Eleven-year-old Claudia and her younger sister experience the street fighting at first hand outside their car window. Their parents are Sandinista activists and, although the family is now escaping to neighbouring Costa Rica, the struggle continues. Their parents fire off terse commands and the girls are packed off to their relatives. The film focuses on the point of view of the two sisters, who are very close, as they learn more than they are able to cope with, but too little really to understand. A revolutionary struggle, seen through the eyes of children.
Red Princesses
2013
Behind the camera
NRAlejandra and Joaquín are a couple marked by his ups and downs. His emotional instability has left him unemployed again, which has made the relationship even more complicated. Alejandra does not understand why everything is so difficult for her husband, nor the reasons for his unhappiness, when he seems to have everything.
Temporal
2024
6.6Thoughtfully, lovingly, Aurora tells the story of an unwanted pregnancy. Alongside her work as an architect, 40-year-old Luisa gives inspirational creative workshops to children. One day, she comes across 17-year-old Julia by the school toilets; it turns out she has unintentionally become pregnant. Luisa decides to help her – in the process manoeuvring herself into a difficult position somewhere between friend, teacher and mother figure. Or does she secretly enjoy playing this role?
Aurora
2021
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The Skin of the Water
2024
6.0No synopsis available yet.
The Skin of the Water
2024
6.0No synopsis available yet.
The Skin of the Water
2024
After a stroke, Óscar Naranjo is no longer the same. But his life is not over and the man who was once the tree that sheltered the entire family, is now the one who needs his loved ones. The documentary delves into a family that will have to take on tough challenges to remain united, as if the tree that held them all their life continues providing the same shade.
La sombra del Naranjo
2016
After a stroke, Óscar Naranjo is no longer the same. But his life is not over and the man who was once the tree that sheltered the entire family, is now the one who needs his loved ones. The documentary delves into a family that will have to take on tough challenges to remain united, as if the tree that held them all their life continues providing the same shade.
La sombra del Naranjo
2016
9.0Patricia's Velásquez's feature debut follows a Costa Rican boy who hopes to attend a soccerschool his family cannot afford -but that his brother is determined to sen him to by any means necessary. Two Waters is a beautiful tale of friendship and loss, moral compromises great and small, and the persistence of dreams.
Two Waters
2014
9.0Patricia's Velásquez's feature debut follows a Costa Rican boy who hopes to attend a soccerschool his family cannot afford -but that his brother is determined to sen him to by any means necessary. Two Waters is a beautiful tale of friendship and loss, moral compromises great and small, and the persistence of dreams.
Two Waters
2014
The lives of Matias family as they struggle with illness and his brother boxing career
Matías
2010
The lives of Matias family as they struggle with illness and his brother boxing career
Matías
2010
The lives of Matias family as they struggle with illness and his brother boxing career
Matías
2010
5.8A 35 year old Chilean exiled mom reconnects an old college love through Facebook, that moments sets dilemma: she might turn into the woman she swore she will never be: her mother.
Apego
2019
5.8A 35 year old Chilean exiled mom reconnects an old college love through Facebook, that moments sets dilemma: she might turn into the woman she swore she will never be: her mother.
Apego
2019