Gabino and his partner Luisa are unsettled by the intrusion of Paco, Gabino’s cousin, into their cramped Mexico City apartment. Pereda captures the enervating power dynamics that gradually emerge between the trio in his sharp, wry vision of the existential ennui of youth.

The World of Love depicts the story of Joo-in (Seo Su-bin), a seventeen-year-old high school girl who keeps her thoughts and feelings to herself. She receives mysterious notes after refusing to participate in a school-wide petition signed by all of her fellow students. The film title is a clever and poignant word play as ‘Joo-in’ sounds like ‘owner’ in Korean, suggesting both a personal agency and the reclaiming of her story.

Working as a mover in Mexico City, Gabino drifts between jobs, family obligations and an elusive search for his missing dog in Nicolás Pereda’s wry, understated portrait of lives caught between movement and stasis.

La Bola Negra tells the interconnected stories of three men in three different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritance, and one of Federico García Lorca´s last, unfinished works.