Axel W. Caballero

Latino Film Institute's LALIFF

Latino Film Institute Fellowships

—Jaie Laplante

An aging, widowed actor seeks a chauffeur. The actor turns to his go-to mechanic, who ends up recommending a 20-year-old girl. Despite their initial misgivings, a very special relationship develops between the two.

Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the object of her fantasies.

Two isolated women bond by sharing their lives from a distance through their apartment windows. They are blocks apart, but despite their efforts, will never meet. Two women. Two windows. Two realities.

A young boy takes on chores and small jobs around his neighborhood to raise money for a ticket to a magic show; but when his grandmother loses her job, he is faced with a difficult decision.

In near future, Mateo Torres is wrongfully arrested by a police drone while on his way to work. He finds himself in a fully automated prison cell where he struggles to find a living human being to set things straight.

A man finds his stolen bicycle, which now belongs to a stranger. While attempting to retrieve it, he struggles to remain human.

In the drought-stricken town of Agua Dulce, in the California High Desert, a ten year old girl challenges her grandfather, a cranky retired firefighter, to follow a crazy plan and bring the water back to the dry river.

From Oscar®-nominated director Erick Oh and 9-time Emmy® Award-winning Baobab Studios, NAMOO is a narrative poem come to life through hand-crafted animation. Inspired by the passing of the director’s grandfather, NAMOO—which translates to “tree” in Korean— follows the beautiful and heartbreaking moments of a man’s life, from beginning to end.

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