RETURN TO VEGA
2026 / Colour / 35 mm / Fiction / 95 min
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by: Serge Garcia & Jacob Sperber
IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis:
In a nocturnal world of fleeting gestures, we meet MIC, a 30 year old transgender man in present day Mexico City. After work, Mic drifts through the undercurrent of a fading cabaret and male-only sex club where the pursuit of sex is not an answer, only another question. Driven by the ebb and flow of the quest itself, Mic enters spaces where few words are needed. Leaving nothing but the next encounter.
Awarded the Joaquim Jordà residency in Madrid by the Museo Reina Sofia, FID Marseille, & DocLisboa.
RETURN TO VEGA
2026 / Colour / 35 mm / Fiction / 95 min
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Written by: Serge Garcia & Jacob Sperber
IN DEVELOPMENT
Synopsis:
In a nocturnal world of fleeting gestures, we meet MIC, a 30 year old transgender man in present day Mexico City. After work, Mic drifts through the undercurrent of a fading cabaret and male-only sex club where the pursuit of sex is not an answer, only another question. Driven by the ebb and flow of the quest itself, Mic enters spaces where few words are needed. Leaving nothing but the next encounter.
Awarded the Joaquim Jordà residency in Madrid by the Museo Reina Sofia, FID Marseille, & DocLisboa.
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
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
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.
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
Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Film.
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.
(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
- Black Canvas/Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
- Black Canvas/Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
- Black Canvas/Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo CDMX, 2024
A GENERAL DISAPPOINTMENT
NARRATIVE SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Cinematography: Simon Köcher
Length: 25:00 min
Format: 16mm, 35mm
Year: 2022
Synopsis:
A General Disappointment bends the quotidian with ordinary scenes that are overlaid with stories told through text that wander through a night at a sex club, domestic duties at home, and the existential aftermath after a failed attempt to go on a date. The experience invites us to ponder over the systemic failures inherent to capitalist societies, and how vain their promises of happiness and self-fulfillment are.
A GENERAL DISAPPOINTMENT
NARRATIVE SHORT
Directed by: Serge Garcia
Cinematography: Simon Köcher
Length: 25:00 min
Format: 16mm, 35mm
Year: 2022
Synopsis:
A General Disappointment bends the quotidian with ordinary scenes that are overlaid with stories told through text that wander through a night at a sex club, domestic duties at home, and the existential aftermath after a failed attempt to go on a date. The experience invites us to ponder over the systemic failures inherent to capitalist societies, and how vain their promises of happiness and self-fulfillment are.
Festivals:
- Rencontres Internationales, Paris, 2023
- Official Selection @ FID Marseille 2022
- Official Selection @ BIEFF 2022
Festivals:
- Rencontres Internationales, Paris, 2023
- Official Selection @ FID Marseille 2022
- Official Selection @ BIEFF 2022
