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Directed by
Rubén Zerecero
Produced by
Sara Camacho

Heartbreakers is a 3-minute-32-second Latin American short film made 100% with AI by ZerezoFilms AI Studio in Mexico City, directed by Rubén Zerecero and produced by Sara Camacho. It is an intimate science-fiction drama in Spanish with English subtitles, framed in 2.39:1 anamorphic widescreen. This production diary breaks down how it was made in five parts: characters, voices, locations, camera, and the final screening.

LoglineYears after a car accident, a woman gets her memory back and finds that her husband has replaced her with an android who wears her face.

Technical specs

Title
Heartbreakers
Genre
Intimate science-fiction drama
Runtime
3 min 32 s
Aspect ratio
2.39:1 anamorphic
Language
Spanish, with English subtitles
Setting
A contemporary house in Santa Fe, Mexico City
Director
Rubén Zerecero
Producer
Sara Camacho
Studio
ZerezoFilms AI Studio, Mexico City
Technique
100% AI: characters, locations, voices and picture generated; edit and grade in post
Year
2026
Heartbreakers poster: two identical women's faces and, in front, a man in a coral shirt; tagline "Love never dies. It gets replaced."

Synopsis

Valeria loses her memory in a car crash while she is seven months pregnant. Years go by. One afternoon, in the dining room of her own house, it all comes back, and with it an unbearable certainty: while she was gone, another woman with her exact face took her seat at the table, her place beside her husband and her place in her son's life.

Heartbreakers is a story about a love that refuses to wait, and about what we are willing to replace rather than lose someone.

The production diary

  1. Part 1 of 5

    Heartbreakers, an AI-made Latin American short film: meet Valeria

    Meet the lead, and see why the film reads as cinema: how you describe a lens that does not exist inside a prompt, and how color tells the audience which timeline it is in.

    Read this part →
  2. Part 2 of 5 · Coming soon

    Julián and the android: one face, two women

    How a fully synthetic face stays identical across every shot, how the audience tells two women with the same face apart, and how actor voices are designed without cloning anyone.

  3. Part 3 of 5 · Coming soon

    The house: architecture, light and blocking

    A Santa Fe house that does not exist, lit the same way in every shot, and the color-coded top-view maps used to block actors who do not exist either.

  4. Part 4 of 5 · Coming soon

    The night of the accident: directing action with AI

    The sequence that took the most versions: previs, camera maps, the god's-eye shot and how you get a video model to respect physics, geography and tone at once.

  5. Part 5 of 5 · Coming soon

    The screening: Heartbreakers in full

    The complete short film with English subtitles, the final poster, and what we learned making auteur cinema with AI in Mexico.

Stills

Stills from the final cut of Heartbreakers, produced by ZerezoFilms AI Studio. For interviews with the director, press material or festival screenings, reach us through the form on this page.

  • Valeria in a terracotta sweater in the foreground; behind her, seated at the table, the android with her exact face in a light blouse.
    Valeria and the android
  • The android in a frontal close-up, smiling, the dining room behind her melting into oval bokeh.
    The android
  • Julián in a coral shirt touches his cheekbone after a slap, the city behind him in the late-afternoon haze.
    Julián
  • Inside a car at night: a pregnant woman leans toward the stereo while the driver laughs; city lights out of focus.
    The night of the accident
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