Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

"Confirmed bachelor" quits playing the field and gets married.

Struggling with addiction, Sean is thrust into the chaotic world of squatting, where every day brings a new battle for survival. Amidst unstable homes, fleeting alliances, and the search for stability in a crumbling reality, he must confront his demons—or risk being consumed by them.

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Mexican movie

Timid guy creates an alter-ego who will get tough with people while he continues being gentle and jolly.

Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.

A man with chronic renal failure realizes that it is his last day of life. Choosing to spend it with the one he loves, he seeks to make the most of his remaining time. The narrative blends reality and fiction, intertwining his final moments with personal accounts and stories, exploring themes of love, loss, and the importance of relationships in the face of mortality.

Sara and Helena go to a retreat a few days before the pandemic is declared, upon their return they find that life has changed.

After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur conversation in culture.

A love story, of boyfriends and songs¸ of three sisters who travel to Colombia with their jealous father Hipólito to receive the inheritance of their late aunt Encajosa¸ who made it a condition that the three girls must be married to receive it.

Six girls who take her through different versions of herself, Kenia Os will have to face her emotions while trying to maintain the balance between the real and the virtual.

In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.

A thief steals a package full of drugs and hides in a church, posing as a Priest.

Manuela (Lucerito) has a lot of difficulties to get work as a fashion designer, since the world of "haute couture" is preferred by men. She decides to change her appearance in order to have luck, so Manuela becomes Manuelito. Immediately find a job as an assistant of Miguel (Guillermo Capetillo), who is also a designer. Miguel offers to share his department, and Manuelito agrees because she/he doesn't have a place to live. This raises a number of funny situations, especially when Miguel is alarmed to know that he is falling in love with his "male friend"

A young man sets out to the small town where his grandfather once lived to learn the story behind his death. There he learns from the town elders not only what happened to his grandfather but stories about old times and the ways the town has changed.

Kevin Texis shares an experience that brought him dangerously close to demonic possession. His testimony reveals a chilling encounter with supernatural forces that defied all notion of reality.

A man is murdered by a high-ranking Mexican government official's bodyguards, who are linked to a gang of kidnappers.

Mexican feature film

The film shows the story of Judah Maccabee, the hero that led the Jewish revolt against the Greek-Syrians.

A man renounces all of his personal possessions. Looking for liberty, he goes with his girlfriend to live in a cave, away from the corruptions of the material world.

Young woman tries to discover the family secret that led to her father being murdered, and she gradually is manipulated into a lesbian relationship.

A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacation days filled with sun-drenched naps, squabbling, waterskiing competitions and love-making, the amateur actors discuss their concerns in dry dialogues. For instance, semi-intellectual reflections on the end of time and how Michael Jordan plays basketball.

World-renowned Mexican filmmaker Everardo González brings us inside the chilling world of Ernesto, an amalgam of various teenage boys, who, in choosing a gun and a life of organized crime, becomes both victim and perpetrator.

Argentine filmmaker Andrés Habegger embarks on a deeply personal journey in this documentary, seeking to recover memories and information about his father, Norberto Habegger, a journalist and Montonero activist who disappeared in Brazil in 1978 during a joint operation between the Argentine and Brazilian military. Traveling to places that were part of his life and revisiting old photos and his childhood diaries, the director fills in the gaps in a family history that was interrupted.

Luis, a young 20 year old man must remain hidden in a house while the presidential elections pass. This is what Andrés, his boyfriend and presidential candidate of a very conservative party, asked him.

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.

When his father dies, Tito stars facing problems that will help him find himself.

Director Hatuey Viveros' beautiful film unfolds as a fascinating exploration of contemporary life in Mexico, searching to understand today's world, while portraying a younger generation who lack an understanding of their past. And as we journey with Aina on her own discovery, it becomes clear that the process of her search is just as important as the results.

A mentally unbalanced man wakes up in chains, in an unknown room. He must struggle to regain his identity and to break free before the bomb in front of him explodes.

A Family that need to speak a great truth.

Victim and victimizer exchange roles in a world like quicksand. Because reality only exist in the eyes of the one making it up.

Texas, 1848. Families are being forced off their land by the settlers who come to colonize this unpopulated state. A battle for the land and oil ensues.

Story about the challenges three members of a grupera music band must overcome to achieve fame.

Matilde, a dying little girl, will search for the stone that allow her not only to fulfill her dream of becoming a horse, but also, perhaps, even cheat death.

Mexican feature film

Trying to get over a nasty divorce, a young woman meets the man of her dreams, but quickly learns that he could possibly be her worst nightmare.

Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties.

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.

Two sisters buy an old dark house, soon they discover it's haunted.

A successful TV executive changes his identity and moves to a poor neighborhood in search of real human connection. There, he falls for an aspiring actress trying to start her career at the channel he runs.

Faced with the hardships of a tenant, landlord Don Fulberto insists on collecting rent in kind, giving rise to a drama of interests and blackmail. In another story, the alcoholic mother of a young prostitute wants to lure a beardless boy into the trade. Both stories reflect the manipulative desire of adults over young people. A self-serving desire that ignores the dark forces it unleashes.

Isabel and Antonio Condorcanqui, brother and sister who have been separated by Chile’s Dictatorship due to the family relationship they have with José Gabriel Condorcanqui or Tupac Amaru II.

Sequel to "Los bandidos de Rio Frio," reopening all the subplots from the first movie to make each of the narrative arcs swing unmistakably to justice.

Mauricio has inherited his father's house and travels there to fix its neglect, with the support of his partner Ana. Mauricio harbors deep anger towards his father for abandoning his mother, and his attitude clashes with Ana, who tries to be understanding and patient with Mauricio's difficult behavior despite indirectly receiving his anger. Gradually, they both have to face the question of whether it is love that binds them together or rather, a profound fear of loneliness.