The Blue Trail

Berlinale-  2025 Silver Bear, Grand Jury Prize

Ecumenical Jury Prize (Berlinale)
Berliner Morgen Post Reader’s Award
Guadalajara Film Festival - Best Feature

7 Nominations Mexican Academy Award (Ariel)
Including best cinematography & best picture

12 Nominations Brazilian Academy Award (Grande Otelo)
Including best cinematography & best picture

Cartagena Film Festival 2025 — Special Mention: Gender Diversity Recognition
Havana Film Festival 2025 — Best Actress

Berlinale 2025
Toronto International Film Festival 2025
BFI London Film Festival 2025
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2025
Istanbul Film Festival 2025
Vancouver International Film Festival 2025
Stockholm International Film Festival 2025
Shanghai International Film Festival 2025
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival 2025
Sydney Film Festival 2025
Tokyo International Film Festival 2025
Busan International Film Festival 2025
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2025
Cartagena Film Festival 2025 | Special Mention: Gender Diversity Recognition
Havana Film Festival 2025 | Winner: Best Actress
Zurich Film Festival 2025
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2025
Sarajevo Film Festival 2025
Tromsø International Film Festival 2026
Reykjavik International Film Festival 2025
Cairo International Film Festival 2025
New Horizons International Film Festival 2025
Chéries-Chéris 2025
Biarritz Amerique Latine Festival 2025
New Zealand International Film Festival 2025
La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival 2025
Cinélatino – Toulouse Latin American Film Festival 2026
Leeds International Film Festival 2025
Film by the Sea 2025

“Cinematographer Guillermo Garza packs this fantastical odyssey with imaginative landscapes, from shots of a riverbank packed with rubber tyres to a lonely boat chugging through twisting rivers. Though the frame is boxy, the landscapes appear expansive, as if trying to break free from the screen’s boundaries.”

Indie Wire:

‘What helps make this “Blue Trail” soar beyond its roots are Guillermo Garza’s vivid, Academy-ratio cinematography” 

The Hollywood Reporter: 

"Mascaro’s films have been notable for his mastery of color and light, a quality still very much in evidence in his first collaboration with DP Guillermo Garza. The lush green jungles flanking the river are almost iridescent, the skies are a pristine blue, and the sparkling ripples of the Amazon and all its sinuous curves are hypnotic.“

Screen Daily:

"Throughout, the film follows its own twisting route, by water or otherwise, with DoP Guillermo Garza capturing some magnificent river vistas."

Ion Cinema:

"The score collides with DP Guillermo Garza’s sumptuous visuals, especially in a climactic duel between a red and white betta fish, the outcome of which will be the actual determination of Tereza’s ‘future.”

Director: Gabriel Mascaro

Writers: Gabriel Mascaro, Tibério Azul

Cinematographer: Guillermo Garza

Editors: Omar Guzmán Castro, Sebastián Sepúlveda

Composer: Memo Guerra

Art Director: Dayse Barreto

Costume Designer: Gabriella Marra

Producers: Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay, Giancarlo Nasi, Simone Oliveira, Marleen Slot