LA AMBULANCIA
2026 / Colour / 35 mm / Doc-Fiction / 15 min
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by Azalea Aguilar
IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis:
Artemisa overdoses, lives. In 1954, an ambulance hits her, she lives. Another chapter in the life of an unconventional single mother. The follow up to El Neceser Rojo is not a story of healing, but of survival as residue. Of single motherhood as aftermath, not resolution. Set in Mexico, it asks what agency looks like within domestic and patriarchal confines, and whether it ever truly existed at all.
LA AMBULANCIA
2026 / Colour / 35 mm / Doc-Fiction / 15 min
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by Azalea Aguilar
IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis:
Artemisa overdoses, lives. In 1954, an ambulance hits her, she lives. Another chapter in the life of an unconventional single mother. The follow up to El Neceser Rojo is not a story of healing, but of survival as residue. Of single motherhood as aftermath, not resolution. Set in Mexico, it asks what agency looks like within domestic and patriarchal confines, and whether it ever truly existed at all.
RETURN TO VEGA
2026 / Colour / 35 mm / Fiction / 95 min
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by: Serge Garcia & Jacob Sperber
IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis:
In the nocturnal churn of Mexico City, a nightclub bouncer finishes his shift and enters the night as just another body in motion. He moves through an industrial rave, a dying cabaret called Vega, and Compañeros, a labyrinthine space where anonymity softens into fleeting recognition—places shaped by ritual, anonymity, and fleeting contact. A portrait of nightlife as emotional management for systemic failure. R2V is the next chapter in the Subterranean series.
Awarded the Joaquim Jordà Residency in Madrid by the Museo Reina Sofia, FID Marseille & DocLisboa.
Film Labs:
FIDLab 2024
Nebulae Doclisboa 2024
RETURN TO VEGA
2026 / Colour / 35 mm / Fiction / 95 min
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by: Serge Garcia & Jacob Sperber
IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis:
In the nocturnal churn of Mexico City, a nightclub bouncer finishes his shift and enters the night as just another body in motion. He moves through an industrial rave, a dying cabaret called Vega, and Compañeros, a labyrinthine space where anonymity softens into fleeting recognition—places shaped by ritual, anonymity, and fleeting contact. A portrait of nightlife as emotional management for systemic failure. R2V is the next chapter in the Subterranean series.
Awarded the Joaquim Jordà Residency in Madrid by the Museo Reina Sofia, FID Marseille & DocLisboa.
Film Labs:
FIDLab 2024
Nebulae Doclisboa 2024
EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Qualified for the 97th Academy Awards for the Best Documentary Short Film category.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision in this award winning film.
EL NECECER ROJO
(The Red Vanity Case)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by:Azalea Aguilar
Cinematography: Edson Reyes
Length: 15:00 min
Format: 16mm
Year: 2024
Qualified for the 97th Academy Awards for the Best Documentary Short Film category.
Synopsis:
A red vanity case holds an unadorned story of a mother’s life. The daughter, ever the observer, watches as it fills with secrets, losses, and finally, ashes. This is the inheritance of migration, revealing the quiet tension between independence and abandonment, told with clinical precision in this award winning film.
(The Red Vanity Case)
Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2024
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (Winner: Best Mexican Short Documentary Film)
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (Winner: Best Mexican Short Documentary Film)
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (Winner: Best Mexican Short Documentary Film)
- Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
- Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
- Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024
- Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, 2024
- Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
- Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
- Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
- FIDMarseille präsentiert REPERTOIRE #2: Serge Garcia, @ Volksbühne, Berlin 2025
- FIDMarseille präsentiert REPERTOIRE #2: Serge Garcia, @ Volksbühne, Berlin 2025
- FIDMarseille präsentiert REPERTOIRE #2: Serge Garcia, @ Volksbühne, Berlin 2025
