Event

Name: The Apricot / Marcos Code
Start: 2025-10-11T13:00
End: 2025-10-11T14:15
Location: The Beacon Cinema

The Apricot / Marcos Code

Children Program

The Apricot
(Short-Animation, Language: English, Spanish w/ English subtiles, Mexico, 9 min. 2024) Directed by: Alex Z. Avila

"The Apricot" tells the story of a 10-year-old boy and his first summer working on the family's apricot farm. This project is based on real childhood memories that the director holds dear to his heart.

Marcos Code
(Feature Documentary, Spain, Portrait, Social Issues, Disability, Motherhood, Neurodivergen, Language: Spanish w/ English subtiles, 79 min. 2024) Directed by: Patricia Pérez Fernández

"Marcos Code" is a moving documentary film that, through ten years of family footage, follows the life of Liena, an immigrant mother facing the challenge of raising her two sons in Spain. She loves, works, argues and plays, looking for guidance through the lens of her tireless camera, which never cuts nor switches off. Within the intimate setting of their home, the spectator is given the privilege of witnessing how Pablo, a young boy with unusual empathy, and Marcos the younger brother, autistic, charismatic and unpredictable, are raised. With humour and authenticity, Liena transforms a stigmatized motherhood into a meaningful life experience.