Lila Avilés

To release sweat from the skin's pores as a result of existing. A production by Carmen Martínez where she explores love, youth, old age, and desire.

Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled with moral abuse by her mother, sister and friends, calling her silly offensive names referencing her overweight. When she became an adult, things didn’t really get any better. She’s fired for being fat, she wants a liposuction but the doctor informs her she’s not a candidate due to her overweight, and all her universe seems to be collapsing after a series of unfortunate events. But everything will soon get better thanks to some magical beetles she finds in a Tarot café.

Eduardo finds out about the imminent death of Lucia, his pregnant wife, who must give birth immediately to begin treatment, but her baby died soon after birth. Awakening from the operation Lucía asks to see her son. Faced with the dilemma Eduardo decide to keep death in secret and with the help of other parents comply Lucia's desire to feel mother before facing a certain death.

short film painting in motion first part of the tetralogy of words

Julian is a young vampire who tries to live a normal life.

Tonatiuh and Maria experience a passionate and turbulent relationship. One night, in the heat of an argument, they suffer a dramatic automobile accident. Tonatiuh is left in a coma, where he sees Alicia, his nurse, including her in his dreams about Maria. Time later, Alicia has an accident and suffers amnesia while Tonatiuh wakes up. One year later, Tonatiuh and Alicia meet and an impossible love arouses from oblivion, haunted by the ghost of Maria's memories.

A love triangle between Mateo, Nadia and Tomas. The story of a friendship, the portrait of a paralyzed generation, the tale of how they live, love and find each other in their solitude.

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

Set within an intimate social circle, Cábula follows a group of friends whose long-standing bond is disrupted when a hidden pact—referred to as a “cábula,” or secret agreement—resurfaces. Over the course of a tense gathering, buried resentments, loyalties, and unspoken desires gradually come to light. As conversations drift between humor, nostalgia, and confrontation, the characters must face the consequences of choices made years earlier. Through quiet observation and shifting perspectives, the film explores the fragile dynamics of friendship, memory, and the subtle ways people negotiate truth, guilt, and affection within close-knit communities.

Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

Lila Avilés, the award-winning writer-director of Tótem and The Chambermaid, follows Leticia Gallardo and her all-female band Mujeres del Viento Florido, musicians from more than 60 Indigenous communities across Mexico who travel from the mountainous region of Tlahuitoltepec to Oaxaca and Mexico City bringing joyous popular music and a kind of brassy defiance of centuries of persecution. - MoMA

Lila Avilés, the award-winning writer-director of Tótem and The Chambermaid, follows Leticia Gallardo and her all-female band Mujeres del Viento Florido, musicians from more than 60 Indigenous communities across Mexico who travel from the mountainous region of Tlahuitoltepec to Oaxaca and Mexico City bringing joyous popular music and a kind of brassy defiance of centuries of persecution. - MoMA

Lila Avilés, the award-winning writer-director of Tótem and The Chambermaid, follows Leticia Gallardo and her all-female band Mujeres del Viento Florido, musicians from more than 60 Indigenous communities across Mexico who travel from the mountainous region of Tlahuitoltepec to Oaxaca and Mexico City bringing joyous popular music and a kind of brassy defiance of centuries of persecution. - MoMA

short film painting in motion first part of the tetralogy of words

Luz works at a gallery but her real passion and purpose in life is as an opera singer. She’s been invited to audition for Madame Butterfly at one of the principal theatres in Mexico City. Luz must practice. Her friends Lycian and Chío instruct her. How to make her voice and hands dance. She’s told “Your mouth is twice the size of your eye,” and this is all part of a divine geometry that governs the world. The 25th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales.

Luz works at a gallery but her real passion and purpose in life is as an opera singer. She’s been invited to audition for Madame Butterfly at one of the principal theatres in Mexico City. Luz must practice. Her friends Lycian and Chío instruct her. How to make her voice and hands dance. She’s told “Your mouth is twice the size of your eye,” and this is all part of a divine geometry that governs the world. The 25th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales.

The daily life of Ana, a 9-year-old adult.

The daily life of Ana, a 9-year-old adult.

The daily life of Ana, a 9-year-old adult.

A fashion film directed by Lila Avilés Solís, about three girls who walk the streets and some places in Havana, Cuba, dressed by the Mexican designer Alexia Ulibarri, talking about beauty, freedom, happiness...

A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.

A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.

'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.

'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.

A fashion film, a metaphor about the separation process. It is a timeless story about how we assimilate breakups and how we have to rebuild ourselves based on memory and detachment. Strengthening our inner and outer being, almost like a metamorphosis.