Movies: Playlab Films

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 ...

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” (...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

Love stories from Yucatán...

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

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

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

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...

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....