Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

In a mysterious place, Tessa must confront that which has been lingering in the most dark places of her mind. Only by escaping will she know the truth.

Drifting from her reality on the streets of Mexico City, a woman's chaotic thoughts spill into verse in short film Weird - directed by Flavio Morales and Nicolas Corvino. Overwhelmed by the routines and structures that direct her day-to-day, she questions the nature of love, life, death and existence itself, undergoing a metamorphosis as an uncanny feeling takes hold. Playing with visual effects makeup to evoke the image of a fish, Morales and Corvino enlisted makeup artist Feña Acuña to center their protagonist's dissociation, exploring the depths of her mind as she becomes immersed in thought.

Mexican movie

The life of a telephone line told through a chain of 72 international phone calls. Starting with a toy phone that wants to possess the soul of a child and ending with a psychopath who ends up destroying this long chain of phone calls.

A young woman is seduced by her cousin's husband when the couple arrives at his house during the pianist's tour.

A woman emigrates to Mexico and leaves her young daughter with relatives. After a few years she returns to look for her but they are not going to make it easy for her.

Braham, an introverted young man, rejects the conflictive violence of human beings and remains apart from them, until he falls in love.

A man sleeping is woken by screams coming from outside of his apartment. Through the peephole he sees a woman being brutally abused by a hooded man. When he finally manage to unlock his door to help the woman, something strange happens.

Mexican romantic musical.

Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella.

Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.

The story of a hitman who came from a marginalized neighborhood and managed to stand out in a criminal organization. He wants to reach the highest levels and on his way he has to prove to his bosses and competitors that he is the best.

A cop is assigned to investigate this so-called chupacabra that’s been seen all over town.

Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.

In the short film "fanitullen", national romanticism, death metal and bloody slapstick are mixed to tell the story of how scorned love unleashes the darkest forces in man and nature.

A Mexican teen Lucas in a gray industrial town befriends co-worker Oscar. Oscar leaves, entrusting Lucas with treasures. Through photography, Lucas captures observed light, finding connection and solace.

Lucía boards a bus where she wakes up naked after falling asleep.

Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.

Documentary film commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Mexican team.

In 2006 Mexico declared war on drug trafficking and since then, violence spread like wildfire throughout the country. Until today more than 120,000 people have died violently and thousands were forced into exile, kidnapped or disappeared.

The Count Cagliostro and scientist Raymond discovered a component that is only found in the mines of Guanajuato, this serves to create a formula to help them in their plans to conquer the world.

What does the re-greening of Antarctica mean for seemingly distant places like Mexico? “The Stride of Lichen” narrates the story of Antarctic glacier ice, its encounter with the sea, and the advance of lichen and moss. Meanwhile, a community is forced to live only in memories on the Mexican coast.

Valentina, a ten-year-old girl, lives with her conservative and religious family. As she watches her teenage sisters navigate their adolescence, Valentina's own childhood begins to fade. Her innocent curiosity gradually transforms into a harsh moral judgment, directed both at herself and her sisters, as she grapples with the confusing onset of puberty.

Ricardo returns from retirement and is hired to do a job for his former boss: kill a presidential candidate. He will have to accept the assignment or his girlfriend and niece will suffer the consequences.

Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.

A quirky peeper with a telescope accidentally discovers serial-killer activity across the courtyard.

Pesadilla sin fin is a fascinating piece from the late '80s Mexican horror scene. The film's atmosphere is thick with dread, weaving a dreamlike quality that pulls you into its sinister world.

Dante spends his days between factories, skateboards and corpses, but the only thing he cares about is the Death Metal band he plays in with his best friends. Lucy, the girlfriend of his comatose brother, comes to visit, and here presence will cause chaos, confusion, but also hope.

One son takes after mom, one son takes after dad. They don't get along, and the family splits into two households.

This film chronicles a meeting: that of the Tarahumara Indians and a camera that looks at the people that are etymologically called "foot runners." Musical montage: steps rhythms, traditional gestures and postures.

Tzintzuntzan is the name of a town in Michoacán, Mexico. At Easter, so-called "spies" roam the streets on horseback, tirelessly searching for Jesus, house by house. Their intention is to arrest, condemn, torture and sacrifice him. This ancient tradition culminates in a Good Friday procession in which all the images of Christ are carried.

Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen.

Daniel is a scientist who just got married to April, an attractive, immature and extroverted youth who reveals a side of herself which he has not yet seen, unleashing conflicts with the inhabitants of her hometown.

In the middle of a dangerous operation, various armed people take El Chicano, a well known drug trafficker in Guerrero. The bosses of the cartel mobilize themselves to locate their ally until they get information that El Chicano was turned into the U.S. in exchange for a reward. What the bosses don't know is that they are also in the brink of being captured by the same bounty hunters.

Mexican feature film

Stories about different characters who have in common the nightclub where they go dancing.

In an underclass neighborhood of Mexico City, a place where a unique troupe features a circus act, led by Don Ramón, he and his wife Petra have to take care of the daughter of a neighbor who has been jailed for drug trafficking. Petra decides that the girl must earn a living, entrusting her several domestic tasks; while befriending Pepito, who works as a clown on the street. Things get complicated when someone with satanic tendencies arrives to Ramon's house, and the visitor develops an interest on Petra. A fight between the three adults causes that the little girl suffers a fatal accident, so the solution will be to use her meat for the tamales sold by Petra.

A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.

Magos y Gigantes tells the story of Gigante, a vertically challenged giant, Ada, a fairy who's wings have yet to blossom and Trafalgar, a curious looking little wizard and their adventures while attending the biggest magic tournament in the land of Reino Magico, and the ensuing mayhem when Titan Caradura, an evil wizard, is disqualified from the tournament and seeks revenge by hatching up an elaborate plan to steal the magic powers from all the inhabitants of Reino Magico.

Musical romance set in 1880s Mexico.

Lucas is a 12-year-old boy who falls in a strange whirlpool in the garbage vortex floating on the Pacific Ocean. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a peculiar world: Thingdom, the place where all things no longer useful go

The Second entry in The Valencia Saga. On Christmas eve, while he waits for his mother to come home, a young man discover some secrets involving the place, that makes him feeling uneasy of being alone.

The well-known story of the girls who come from their villages to the capital to work helping with household chores, without thinking that in addition to that they were going to do other, better-paid jobs.

After their bus breaks down deep in the jungle; a group of weary travelers must walk their way to safety, but a deadly ancient Indian tribe is following them & out to kill them one by one.

Getulio (Valentin Trujillo) is a merciless drug trafficker and gunman who, in search of riches and power, involves himself with narcopolitics. The most crude assassinations are commited by the hands of Getulio. Nobody will ever discover him or know why.