Juan Carlos Rulfo

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Juan Carlos Rulfo

Born 1964-01-24 · Ciudad de México, México

Juan Carlos Rulfo (Mexico City, January 24, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker. Heir to the tradition of his father Juan Rulfo, Juan Carlos has been able to translate into cinematographic narrative the rural Mexican atmospheres that his father enshrined in his literature and at the same time forge a career for himself that has taken him out of his father's shadow to demonstrate his talent.

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Behind the camera

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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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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

De Panzazo poster
5.1

Panzazo! It reflects the reality of education in Mexico and demonstrates that Mexican society panzazo passes in an exclusionary system in which no lessons for life are achieved. We see in this movie moms, dads, principals, teachers, officials, union representatives and opinion leaders to draw a global picture that does not allow indifference. The data, interviews and what the students filmed with handheld cameras give rise to indignation and intelligent to realize the part that touches everyone contribute. The project ran for three years entering the reality of the students and their families, capturing the daily dynamics of schools in such diverse parts of the country such as Ciudad Juarez, the interior of Yucatan, Morelia, the mountains of Chiapas and Guerrero, as well as Naucalpan and Iztapalapa in the metropolitan area of ​​Mexico City. EDIT: To clarify, "de panzazo" means "just squeaking through."

De Panzazo

2012

Érase una vez poster
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Juan Carlos Rulfo's father used to send him postcards from the places he visited. 27 years after his father passed away, Juan Carlos, son of the author of Pedro Páramo, decides to film those places his father talked and wrote him about.

Érase una vez

2018

Lorena: Light-Footed Woman poster
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A young woman of the Tarahumara, well-known for their extraordinary long distance running abilities, wins ultramarathons seemingly out of nowhere despite running in sandals.

Lorena: Light-Footed Woman

2019

Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember poster
6.0

Juan Carlos Rulfo, the son of the acclaimed Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo, travels to the plains of Jalisco in search of information on his father. What starts as a tribute to a great artist, however, becomes a meditation on aging and how it's affecting the history of a generation of great Mexican literature.

Juan, I Forgot I Don't Remember

1999

Carrière, 250 Meters poster
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A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemetery in which he will end there is a life journey of just 250 meters. "Carrière: 250 Meters" follows him as he reflects on the wealth of global traditions of storytelling, travelling through past and present, across countries and cultures from Paris to New York, Mexico and India and joined by his family, friends and collaborators. A testament to the life and work of an extraordinary man and a key architect in contemporary cinema.

Carrière, 250 Meters

2011

Grandpa Cheno and Other Stories poster
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A young man sets out to the small town where his grandfather once lived to learn the story behind his death. There he learns from the town elders not only what happened to his grandfather but stories about old times and the ways the town has changed.

Grandpa Cheno and Other Stories

1995

One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo poster
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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

LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE poster
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Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the distance between COVID-19 patients and their family members through letters, that eventually turn into video messages or photographs during the peak of the pandemic giving people hope and certainty. It is also a voyage through the lives of mexican families who faced the most painful pandemic, due to their social, economic and political contexts while being moved by hope and love.

LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE

2021

In the Pit poster
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A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.

In the Pit

2006

In the Pit poster
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A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.

In the Pit

2006

Binnizá, The Beings Of The Clouds poster
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In the Isthmus of Oaxaca, Binnizá: Guardians of the Clouds celebrates Indigenous creativity and storytelling, revealing how these traditions preserve cultural heritage for future generations.

Binnizá, The Beings Of The Clouds

2026

Los que se quedan poster
6.0

Story about nostalgia, identity and memory, but above all, it has to do with love and dreams. It is an intimate journey about what happens with those who have relatives who have left for the United States in search of a better life, in an exploration of the consequences of migration.

Los que se quedan

2009

La historia de I y O poster
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Once upon a time there was a couple who hid their emotions, until one day chance knocked on their door.

La historia de I y O

1999

The Story Of An Encounter poster
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The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and Cirque du Soleil creators in the mist of the creation of LUZIA, Cirque du Soleil next big top show. It is a cultural and intimate story of the meeting of creative minds seen through personal interactions and relationship building of the show creators. Filmed in Mexico City, Tijuana, Oaxaca and Montréal, this series features: Daniele Finzi Pasca (Co-author and Director of LUZIA), Patricia Ruel (Direction of Creation), Simon Carpentier (Composer), Eugenio Caballero (Set and Props Designer) as well as Majo Cornejo and Rodrigo de la Mora (Musicians).

The Story Of An Encounter

2016