Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

At 16, Amir decides to break up with his boyfriend and pursue an active sex life with no string attached. It's in this search that he meets Emilio, an older kid he ends up falling in love with.

Cowboy-hero series, number two of two: Townsfolk pledge all their jewels and valuables as security for a large loan to undertake a public works project... and then the swag is stolen.

The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.

A young hitman is challenged by the city's top hired gun to see if he's worthy to take his place in the world.

This short by Akosua Adoma Owusu offers a spellbinding, semi-autobiographical interpretation of a traditional Ghanaian folktale in which the contemporary collides with the mythological in both content and form.

The making of a soldier in Peru. A group of young men, some of them teenagers, voluntarily enlists in a rigorous military program within the Peruvian Armed Forces. They are driven by their desire to engage in an ongoing armed conflict in the VRAEM, an area with military intervention framed by a 'war on drugs' policy. They aspire to become ‘men of war’ and embark on a transformative journey from hopeful adventurers into soldiers. Amidst the violence in the secluded military environment in Peru, intimate moments unfold beyond a prejudiced gaze, where compassion and care blossom among them.

A drug dealer discovers that a double-crosser is the one who is responsible for exterminating the great leaders in the business.

After many setbacks, Mr. Prudenciano, in Mexico, came to the conclusion that he had no great future as a bullfighter. He sold what little he had and, along with his wife, settled in Seville. Things didn’t go much better for him in Spain either, although at least he can spend all day doing what he likes best: doing nothing.

Through a training trip, in which the filmmakers also participate, the contrasts that exist between the conservatism of machismo and the new masculinity are evident; testimonies, discoveries and liberation in a circle of men.

The turbulent life of a drug trafficker wanted by the border patrol and women. A man who seems to have 7 lives, all of them with bloody violence.

After a ferocious confrontation with the federal police, "El Chacha" is betrayed by his partner Mariano, who believes him to be dead.

A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.

In old Mexico City, a couple comes together; they try to save each other, but sometimes escaping is impossible.

A little girl who is allergic to almost everything is forced to live alone isolated from the outside world. When a small lemur brought from Madagascar to an illegal market in Mexico escapes and finds a way to the little girl's room, a strange friendship is formed.

A biographical documentary about Moisés Avendaño, artist, athlete, sportsman, adventurer, and doctor from Veracruz, Mexico. Seen from his golden years, until his imminent encounter with Parkinson's disease, in the present.

Mexican feature film

The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.

This short film shot in Tepic revives his spirit in a former wrestler who bursts into the public square, unleashing a viral storm. He doesn't ask for land, he doesn't proclaim himself a leader... he just shouts.

Mexican feature film

In some of the most extraordinary natural landscapes in Mexico, a group of mountaineers have set out to explore a world labeled as impossible, but from a space reserved only for birds.

A captivating diva, incarnation of Acapulco, remembers when she was the most famous movie star of Mexico. Meanwhile, Marco, Javier, Félix, Alfonso and Yolanda are getting ready for Easter Week, the period when the city revives, recovering for a few days its past glory. Each one tries to survive his own way in that paradisiacal set that everyday looks more like hell.

A fascinating journey through Mexican culture and spirituality in search of the origins of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon that emerged after the shocking clash between Europe and the Mesoamerican peoples. With all its lights and shadows, this 'brown skinned' virgin is the first and most important sign of Mexican identity.

A trumpeter returns to his town for his grandfather's funeral.

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?

This is the story of Lautaro, a ten year old boy who lives in the Tierra Caliente region in southern Mexico during the 40´s. When he is orphaned, he is sent to live with an aunt in a town 60 kilometers away. Lautaro decides, for a number of reasons, to walk back home, and on his way he meets many people, alive and dead, who help him get back home.

2OCT NEVER FORGET

A bullfighter is about to strike the last and deadly blow to a bull that is tired but does not plan to give up. At the decisive moment, the bull will dodge the lethal blow, which will allow him to decide what to do with his seemingly defeated opponent.

A movie actress and a film director decide to create their own version of what love should be, therefore each tuesday, no matter where or with whom they are, they see each other in order to love each other.

A woman finds old video tapes with memories of a trip taken by her late mother, Silvia. Moved by what she sees, she embarks on the same journey to the same place, falling asleep on the way.

Mexican feature film

Chanoc and Tzekub are stranded in an island after a storm wrecks their ship, and they must rescue a child from a local tribe.

The delegates of an international conference must decide on a "United Song", capturing the traditions and cultural characteristics of the participating countries. An unprecedented art showcase.

Three stories: A young man disobeys his aunt by not killing a cat. An orphan boy, in love with his cousin, is fond of war novels, imagining himself as a hero. A couple of schoolboys in love wander around the city and forget the brutality of their respective homes.

Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.

It is made up of 4 stories in comedy, historical and even experimental genres, which reclaim important moments of Taxqueño identity.

Asesinato a Sangre Fría is a Mexican film produced in 1990 directed by Sergio Véjar and starring Susana Dosamantes, Leonardo Daniel, Norma Lazareno, Anahí, Beatriz Moreno.

In Fuente Clara over ten years since any man born. The population, mostly female, are desperate and resorts to the reigning prince.

A woman lives within an automated system to which she must adapt for the rest of her life.

A dysfunctional young couple argues after their sex session.

In an allegory of impossible love, a girl is entangled in a tortuous romance with a boy made of paper.

Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.

Mexican feature film

Single father with a disability struggles to raise his son.