INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
Casa Chica
Director
Lau Charles
Producer
Luna Martínez Montero
Cinematographer
Ángel Jara Taboada
Editor
Santiago Zermeño
Sound
Jorge Leal Carrera
Website
Contact
El CCC » Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C.
Calzada de Tlalpan 1670, Col. Country Club,
Alc. Coyoacán, C.P. 04220, Ciudad de México
[email protected]
2025
Mexico
25 min 43 sec
Color
CASA CHICA is a short film that tells the story of two siblings: 11-year-old Quique and 5-year-old Valentina. After their parents separate, they move into a tiny apartment under their mother’s care. On their first Sunday with their father, he introduces them to his "new family," where the siblings discover that their half-sister is the same age as Valentina.
Director and visual artist who graduated with honors in Film Directing from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. Her short film OLOTE has traveled to dozens of international festivals including the Morelia International Film Festival, and the BAFTA Student Film Awards Shortlist.
Other films in INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
1:10
Absent
Aferrado
After Colossus
Almost Certainly False
Beneath Which Rivers Flow
Blue Heart
Choice
Deck 5B
Garan
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
Hippopotami
I'm Glad You're Dead Now
Lili
Little Rebels Cinema Club
Loynes
Masterpiece Mommy
Notes From Planet Three
One of Them
Samba Infinito
Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
The Eggregores’ Theory
The Last People
The Rain Will Weep
The Sacrificed Meat
Under the Mountains’ Shadow
