Experiencing Interruptions?

To love (is)

What did they teach us that love should be, what to endure in its name, how has it gone through me? women ask themselves as they explore their feelings through the camera, creating and liberating themselves collectively.

  • Sunya Itzia Madrigal Alvarez Ugena
    Director
  • Dira Sofía Carranza Hernández
    Director
  • Sunya Itzia Madrigal Alvarez Ugena
    Producer
  • Sunya Itzia Madrigal Alvarez Ugena
    Editor
  • Briseida Jaqueline Bustos Tinoco
    Writer
  • Osmara Paloma Núñez Chávez
    Writer
  • Paulina Rodríguez García
    Writer
  • Nereyda Jazmín Pérez Rodríguez
    Writer
  • Linda Wendy Vargas Guerrero
    Writer
  • Claudia Itzel Bejarano Wacuz
    Writer
  • Ana Camila Ruiz Cortéz
    Writer
  • Andrea Nájera C.
    Writer
  • Dira Sofía Carranza Hernández
    Writer
  • Sunya Itzia Madrigal Alvarez Ugena
    Writer
  • América de la Torre
    Writer
  • Geraldine Guillén González
    Camera
  • Osmara Paloma Núñez Chávez
    Camera
  • Ana Camila Ruiz Cortéz
    Camera
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Amar (es)
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 8, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:09
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • AMBULANTE
    Morelia
    Mexico
    May 12, 2024
    Selección oficial Coordenadas Michoacán
  • FICMA
    México
    Mexico
    November 14, 2024
    Selección en competencia en "Cortometraje Mexicano documental"
  • Festival Arte para Todxs: Disidencias/Derechoshumanos
    Morelia
    Mexico
    November 16, 2024
    Selección oficial
  • CINEFESTMICH
    Morelia
    Mexico
    January 30, 2025
    Selección Muestra Itinerante
  • Divergentes: arte y cine
    Morelia
    Mexico
    March 8, 2024
    Selección oficial
  • Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Paracho
    Paracho
    Mexico
    July 26, 2025
    Selección oficial
  • FECIBA
    Ciudad de México
    Mexico
    November 16, 2025
    Selección oficial SOMOS BARRIO
Distribution Information
  • Grupo Ratio Films
    Sales Agent
    Country: Mexico
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Sunya Itzia Madrigal Alvarez Ugena, Dira Sofía Carranza Hernández

SUNYA I. MADRIGAL ALVAREZ UGENIA (a.k.a. Sunya Ratio)

Sunya Madrigal is a filmmaker and hybrid art director, with works screened in 14 countries. Sunya has a Master's in Philosophy of Culture and a degree in media.

Winner at MPIFF Mexico Prague International Film Festival with the hybrid film work "Dimension Zero"; award for Best Experimental Short Film, at the Andromeda Film Festival -Turkey- and, selected at the FICM with the experimental short film “Habitar"; a project awarded for the AcompañArte scholarship. She was part of Talents Guadalajara at the FICG 36 within the Directors Studio; a finalist at FICMA, MIC MX, and SHORTS MÉXICO, selected at Ambulante Pulsos Michoacán with two collective works and one on her own. Her documentary "Otoño Verde" on sexual and reproductive rights has been screened nationwide at Mic Género, Cinetekton, RESISTIMOS Festival, and various cultural spaces.

She has directed degrees in audiovisual production and digital art and has taught and led workshops at multiple universities in Mexico.

She is the founder and curator of Divergentes Arte y Cine, a festival about cinema and artistic creation with a gender perspective. Since 2015, she has coordinated the creative hybrid film and art studio GRUPO RATIO FILMS.

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Director Statement

AMAR (es) es un cortometraje colectivo creado por realizadoras michoacanas, surge de las vivencias y todo lo compartido en talleres de realización de cine con perspectiva de género que generaron en 2023, en los que dialogamos, creamos, grabamos y crecimos juntas.