Movie Minute: Emptiness

 Emptiness, a 2-D animated short written and produced by award-winning Mexicana filmmaker Soco Aguilar premiered in Mexico City on Friday, December 9 at 7:00 pm (red carpet starts at 6:00 pm) at Cinemex Pabellón Polanco Theater in Mexico City. The film is a narrative metaphor for the hundreds of thousands of mothers and families worldwide with missing loved ones.

Emptiness is directed and animated by illustrator and animator Ricardo Varela Ramos. Ale Cienfuegos Mao is the film's art director and senior animator. Erik Alcantara scored the film and is responsible for the film's sound design. More than 20 animators from Mexico, Spain, Turkey, Canada, and the United States worked on the film.

Emptiness' Mexican filmmaking team was motivated to tell the story driven by the record number of forced disappearances in their country and an unpleasant experience suffered by Aguilar, who has three children. According to the BBC, Mexico marked a grim milestone in 2022, with the number of people officially listed as disappeared at more than 100,000.