Alfredo Torres is a Costa Rican documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on themes of migration, LGBTQIA+ rights, and environmental issues.
His debut short documentary, Jardines, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.
Torres holds a master's degree in Journalism from UC Berkeley, where he was awarded the Marlon T.
Riggs Fellowship Award.
His work has been featured by organizations such as the United Nations, Mongabay, and PBS.
A man in chains, a young man who dreams of being part of something, to become a militant for an armed group who must wield a cruelty in which he may not believe in. The characters, each voluntary or involuntary part of a mechanism that overcomes them, reveal their greatness or misery in the “minimum” tasks that they perform to survive. From that sometimes morbid poetry of the everyday and the irrefutable truth of the details, we see a country whose social body is sick and injured.
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.