Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Dogme №39.

Roberto and Isaac, both unemployed, embark on a job that will push them to the limit.

Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.

To understand the way they are feeling and why, Eva and Den converse about their ended relationship by going through the most important memories that were shared in the past. Through this remembrance, the memories’ capacity to be complete begins to be questioned as well as the love that was shared in the past.

Lola wants to escape her situation at all costs, even if it is only through her imagination, where she is a beautiful ballet dancer.

A group of friends travel to a small town fair, but when they get to the town, there’s is no one around, so decide to stay and party. Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Rodolfo wants to marry the aristocrat Adriana who rejects him. Humberto, her brother, kills a man for her. Rodolfo attributes the crime to the gypsy Renzo so that Adriana will gratefully marry him. Renzo is sent to the island of the condemned, where he is left for dead.

A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.

When you meet the love of your life at a party, but it's not your partner...

A ghost falls in love with the daughter of the owner of an old mansion, but her fiancé will fight to make sure the ghost leaves them alone.

Mexican feature film

A Florentine legend tells the story of a blunt and arrogant blacksmith who enlists with the Crusaders in an attempt to rekindle the love his wife once had for him. After seizing Jerusalem, he lights up a candle in the tomb of Christ and bets to a Minstrel that he can carry it to Florence, all by himself. On his way home, he runs into a series of characters that help him to reflect upon the meaning behind the sacred flame and change his life for good.

Her, a young student, knows Him, a nomad who comes to her life suddenly. A friendship is born between them and quickly becomes attraction, but both carry painful passages that act as a barrier between their feelings. Their past, present and possible future are revealed in the small moments they share, and they will have to decide between breaking down their barriers or getting lost in everything they cannot overcome.

Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier.

After an exhausting search, local authorities manage to capture Angel, who is accused of killing several women. A few months after his imprisonment in the maximum security prison of Malagua, he is questioned by a reporter named: Julio Bocanegra; who is looking for the truth behind the murders in Malagua.

The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and Cirque du Soleil creators in the mist of the creation of LUZIA, Cirque du Soleil next big top show. It is a cultural and intimate story of the meeting of creative minds seen through personal interactions and relationship building of the show creators. Filmed in Mexico City, Tijuana, Oaxaca and Montréal, this series features: Daniele Finzi Pasca (Co-author and Director of LUZIA), Patricia Ruel (Direction of Creation), Simon Carpentier (Composer), Eugenio Caballero (Set and Props Designer) as well as Majo Cornejo and Rodrigo de la Mora (Musicians).

An orphan kid with the dream of becoming a writer, is adopted by a ranch-owner. There meets the love of his life. Not everything is quite all right. both discover the mysteries of the ranch, and something more meaningful for their lives

This story unfolds as the rancher known for his love of rooster fights is shot by his rival and is left paralyzed in a wheelchair. He now is plagued by alcoholism and his obsession to not let his two sons to be caught up in the gambling world of rooster fights. But one defies his father and now confronts the man that left his father paralyzed. This story is about love, lies, passion and hate.

According to direct testimonies collected from the family of the Mexican filmmaker Christian González, with the actor Leonardo Daniel and with the actress Azela Robinson, this is a film that does not exist and may be is some other film made by the director Christian González but with the title changed by some US film distributor and with the protagonists added to the technical sheet on IMDB without any rigor and without really having acted in it. It could be "Furia de barrio" made in the same year of 1993 by Christian González where Leonardo Daniel and Roberto 'Flaco' Guzmán would have acted together and the photography would have been by Juan Carlos Martín, but Azela Robinson would not have acted in it who never acted in any film directed by Christian González nor did she work in any film with Roberto 'Flaco' Guzmán, as she herself has clarified. If "Furia del barrio" was reissued as "Infernal Apocalypse" more information is required to confirm it.

In Mexico, citizens outraged by the rampant corruption and the way of doing politics are questioning power every day. This documentary shows the personal and direct experience involved in the act of governing through four protagonists who reveal what is “the power of the chair”.

Returning from a business trip, a man meets some peasants who arouse fears in him.

This history talks about two different ways of seen a terrible situation. One is about guilty, how some times we are so inside ourselves that we don't realize that the people near to us could be feeling terribly bad. But it also shows that sometimes we feel guilty about something that wasn't in our hands.

During a video call, two friends remember the ex of one of them. It won't take long for the memories to materialize.

Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.

A man going through a crisis chooses to live somebody else's life for a week, transforming his identity.

A love triangle between Mateo, Nadia and Tomas. The story of a friendship, the portrait of a paralyzed generation, the tale of how they live, love and find each other in their solitude.

Twin rabbits Metstli and Toshtli are taking instant photos when Zacatuche, his youngest brother, tries to join them.

Tony Ray is not enough to impress Diana thus decides to become a boxer. At last he can have it all: money and feel worthy enough to propose.

Femicide is a growing phenomenon in Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez.

Upon the death of his grandfather and playmate, Bruno, an 8-year-old boy, embarks on a journey in a magical world, trying to finish the unfinished story he was building with his grandfather to become a king.

Julián is a single father, who will try everything to give his daughter Renata, a very special birthday present. Meanwhile, he will realize Renata's mother is further he thought.

After learning his father was murdered for winning a game of cards, Juan Coronado Jr. goes from town to town in the Mexican countryside in search of those responsible- ready to avenge his father's death.

Counter-espionage ring of beautiful young women protects atomic secrets from the bad guys.

"El Ojitos", a drug trafficker, is looking for a substitute to put him in the sights of the police and his enemies. He finds in Juan a replacement to make him believe that "El Ojitos" has died. However, he does not expect that Juan's luck will lead him to a better life.

Andrés is having a hard time at school and he is provoked past boiling point.

When Gabriel finds out he might be HIV positive, he starts looking for the guy he hooked up with at a party the night before.

A very macho young man actually has a secret confession. He likes to dress up as a woman and be with other men.

A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.

Two football soccer Mexican fans win a trip to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, during their journey they raffle different adventures that they draw, until a night of partying where they meet two very peculiar Finland girls who offside their lives for ever.

Mexican feature film

A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).

A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the djina (a devil) but on the way they find an exiled country, that asks for help them to spread there existence and find a way to prevent that the organizations of United Nations and NGOS do not forget them. It is a history full of magic and feeling, wrapped in the colouring landscapes of the great desert of the Sahara. Among the liberated territories there are 10 million mines, temperatures of up to 60 ° c and little food to testify the wealths of a great people there culture, traditions, tragedy and there similarities with the rest of us.

An experimental and sensory portrait of the Mexico City Metro System through the job of a subway driver and the spaces she journeys.

Beneath the Surface introduces readers to the story of the wealthy Kingsley family of Southern California. At the center of the action are the power-hungry children of an aging billionaire, who prove unprepared for a storm of deceptions and ruthless family ambition, while out on a weekend voyage.

Years after losing his daughter in a car accident and being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, Octavio, a concert pianist, discovers that he can live until the end of his days as if he were not dying, oblivious to what awaits him at the threshold.

A biopic about the writer Kenneth Grahame, the birth of his iconic story "The Wind In The Willows", and his life with wife Elspeth, and Alastair their troubled young son.

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Joel, an 11-year-old boy, will guide us through the forest of the Popocatépetl volcano and with his childlike wisdom leaves us lessons on a natural life.

Emanuel Gil is having a crisis point, since he has not found inspiration for his next book. At the right moment, Dianne appears, and Emanuel believes he can find the inspiration needed to start up his new story.

Political thriller involving the players related to the assassination of presidential candidate Coloso.

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.

In the 2000s, a young woman navigates the emotions and challenges of becoming a mother, while trying to care for her little brother.