Movies: Playlab Films

  • 2024
    Memories of a Burning Body

    Memories of a Burning Body (2024)

    Memories of a Burning Body

    6.22024HD

    Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, Ana, Patricia, and Mayela found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits ...

    Memories of a Burning Body
  • 1969
    Piggy

    Piggy (1969)

    Piggy

    01969HD

    Two friends discuss their dreams and nightmares as they go about their daily routines in Tekal de Venegas, Mexico....

    Piggy
  • 2022
    Maruja

    Maruja (2022)

    Maruja

    02022HD

    Maruja lives with her husband in San Ildefonso, a working-class neighborhood of Cornellà, on the outskirts of Barcelona. She is 87 years old, she gets bored at home and often goes out in search of fresh air that makes her smile, always with her shopp...

    Maruja
  • 2023
    Nostalgia for the Lake

    Nostalgia for the Lake (2023)

    Nostalgia for the Lake

    62023HD

    A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the everyday of a parallel time. when he wakes up, the same song haunts him again and again. his boat, “ara” (...

    Nostalgia for the Lake
  • 2024
    The Presence of Absence

    The Presence of Absence (2024)

    The Presence of Absence

    02024HD

    Filmed during a 12-day workshop in the Amazon rainforest of Peru under the mentorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, La presencia de lo ausente is intended to be a farewell letter, but on its journey it becomes an exercise in memory, time, trauma and ...

    The Presence of Absence
  • 2023
    This Is Not the End

    This Is Not the End (2023)

    This Is Not the End

    02023HD

    In an abandoned town in the Peruvian Amazon, the narrator ruminates on the things he wishes he had the courage to tell his parents....

    This Is Not the End
  • 2025
    Someday the night will come

    Someday the night will come (2025)

    Someday the night will come

    102025HD

    In a small, unassuming town in the heart of the Yucatán Peninsula, Virginio carries an invisible burden. The whispers of Xtabay, a Mayan mythical figure who seduces and portends doom, echo through his days, intertwined with the legacy of his father a...

    Someday the night will come
  • 2023
    Lost Brother

    Lost Brother (2023)

    Lost Brother

    02023HD

    Deep in the Amazon rainforest, there is a mysterious tree that houses a lonely spirit that can lure small children into the forest where they will never be seen again. Two sisters play with a small spider, as if it was their long lost brother – a dan...

    Lost Brother
  • 2024
    David (For Now)

    David (For Now) (2024)

    David (For Now)

    02024HD

    A group of children in the Mayan town of San José Oriente spend their days riding motorcycles and playing soccer, but one of them has other plans. Shot during the Creator's Lab 2023 in Yucatán, México, under the consultancy of Apichatpong Weerasethak...

    David (For Now)
  • 2023
    strip of eyelid finds its morning

    strip of eyelid finds its morning (2023)

    strip of eyelid finds its morning

    02023HD

    The rainforest bears witness to life; life bears witness to the rainforest....

    strip of eyelid finds its morning
  • 1969
    Maze of Joy

    Maze of Joy (1969)

    Maze of Joy

    01969HD

    On the outskirts of the town of Izamal, in the heart of Yucatán, Mexico, the Oxte family live a life of small joys and inspiring familial love. Elena and her two sons, Liam and Janielle, spend their days cooking, playing with their pets, biking, knit...

    Maze of Joy
  • 2024
    Bird, Bat or Butterfly

    Bird, Bat or Butterfly (2024)

    Bird, Bat or Butterfly

    02024HD

    Young Darwin is feeling bored in his Yucatan village. Playing games on his parents' phone or using the forest as a playground with his brother doesn't help shed his gloom. So he decides to find out if Shaman Charli's stories are true and plucks up th...

    Bird, Bat or Butterfly
  • 2023
    Letter from Peru

    Letter from Peru (2023)

    Letter from Peru

    02023HD

    My first love, Michaël, died at the age of 20, killed in the Peruvian jungle in the fall of 2000. 22 years later, I go for the first time to the Amazon, under the direction of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, to the place where Michi lost his life....

    Letter from Peru
  • 2024
    What I Wish I Knew

    What I Wish I Knew (2024)

    What I Wish I Knew

    02024HD

    Love stories from Yucatán...

    What I Wish I Knew
  • 2023
    You Have [1] Unheard Message

    You Have [1] Unheard Message (2023)

    You Have [1] Unheard Message

    02023HD

    Defective portraits from a remote Amazonian village exposes bleak memories of addiction, disease and abandonment....

    You Have [1] Unheard Message
  • 2023
    Los Misticos

    Los Misticos (2023)

    Los Misticos

    02023HD

    In a remote village within a Peruvian jungle, a boy finds himself in between the natural world and the spirit world. Through this, he gains an acute awareness of the energy of his long lost ancestors....

    Los Misticos