Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Viviana steals a huge sum of money from El Pollo, a drug dealer, and wants to hide her loot in her ex-boyfriend Bernando's shop.

Federal police agent goes undercover to bust rural crime ring. Series western.

Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.

Comedic retelling of the events around the biblical character: Samson.

This collabora,ve short film shows some of the results of a produc,on workshop imparted to a group of youth who inhabit the region named Water Forest, which provides with mul,ple natural and cultural benefits to the area with most popula,on density of Mexico.

Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town.

Juan Manuel intends his wife Clara, who is blind, sign the will in his favor, but she refuses. With them lives Soledad, goddaughter Clara. A day comes Carlos, nephew of Juan Manuel, who is interested in Soledad. Carlos is going to study medicine in the United States and maintains correspondence with Soledad. Juan Manuel shows interest in Soledad but prevents Clara meet her. She is the daughter of Clara, who hid that Juan Manuel had killed the father of Soledad and also caused her blindness.

Convict breaks out of jail to undo aristocratic crimes involving a fortune in jewels, a servant wrongfully accused of theft, and a dispossessed young heiress.

Miguel wants the love of Helena but he dies. In order to reach heaven and avoid limbo, there is one condition, he must forget Helena, but he will try to avoid this, since he doesn't want to reach heaven if he won't be able to remember her.

Two card-sharps fall for the same woman.

Exposition of two different processes of forensic identification in exhumed bodies with features of violence.

Based on a real testimony, "Where the cold burns" takes us back in time through an atmospheric journey towards the feelings of a woman. Aurora arrives at her childhood home in the midst of an accumulation of fog and intense cold. Uneasy, she visits this place to reunite with her dead father. But the past overwhelms her, those uncomfortable events of her childhood are relived, which has been marked by the love and abuse of her father.

A man suffers with amnesia because of an accident, meanwhile, his wife is looking for him.

About the Russian dancer Yolanda who arrives in Mexico with her company in 1909. There she falls in love with the young cadet Julio. However, the influential Carlos opposes this love. He wants Yolanda for himself and threatens her with a possible deportation to Siberia if she rejected his romantic advances.

A search sparked by the eternal struggle between faith and the fear of death. Toro traces the spiritual journey of Julián, a young man bound to the inherited fate of the bullfighting ritual.

In the 1970s, Mexican bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo boldly confronts the Inquisition and defies Latin American dictatorships, striving to ignite a global spiritual revolution.

Filmed at Foro Sol in Mexico City, Mexico on March 3, 2017.

The story is about Katy, now grown up as a lovely butterfly, and her children, young twin caterpillars names Kiki and Koko, facing off against aliens who came to their forest searching for food which happens to be inhabitants of the forest. With the help of their friends, Katy, Kiki and Koko were able to defeat the alien X and save their forest and its inhabitants. The sequel to "Katy the Caterpillar."

Hector is a man of the third age with serious problems of memory, the small homemade tasks of the daily life will be complicated as the day passes.

Desire and eroticism go hand in hand to obtain or fulfill sexual needs and become a perfect excuse. A girl full of eroticism and sensuality is capable of inventing any excuse to fill her sexual fantasies.

Mexican feature film

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.

UFO sightings are reported in northeastern Guatemala. Rober Daneri a frustrated college professor along with the production team of a sensationalist TV show embark on a supernatural journey across the thin boundary between blind faith, self-delusion and the unknown in search of truth.

A girl makes a park all by herself.

Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.

Hilaria's engaged to be married, but her fiance may never come back from Texas. Meanwhile, two local guys are interested in her...

Three friends – a trio in love – get together after an audition. Their prosaic exchanges take a different turn when they remember how they met.

A thief decides to rob a church, but before achieving his robbery, he must Confront a parishioner for emotional support.

After hearing the news of an asteroid just days away from impacting Earth, Paola enters into a deep conflict as she evaluates what she has done with her life up to that point and how she hopes to face her last days, just as Santiago, a former lover, reappears, seeking to close their unfinished story.

Lost short film about the death of the last Aztec Emperor.

Charlie and Hannah can't say it out loud, but they both know their relationship is coming to an end. As a last ditch effort, the two head south with Hannah's cat, along the dusty coast of Baja California. There they discover not only a new world, but that the troubles between them can't remain dormant for much longer.

Ana's shyness holds her back from talking to her crush, but with inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, this may finally change.

X Quinientos tells the story of Alex, David and Aurora, three people who live in opposite ends of the American continent, but who are connected due to their incapacity to accept mourning and to their need of changing in order to move on with their lives.

In the course of Alaide Foppa's life, she became a precursor of feminism in Mexico. She was an immigrant who, in her own way, tried to break the molds established by her upper-class upbringing. Her sensitivity and intellectual development made her question matters of social injustice, educational and gender inequalities, the importance of socially-committed art forms and the vindication of democracy throughout Latin America. Her tragic end reveals much about the history of Guatemala.

A deeply human portrait of the chaotic reality of the US - Mexico border. Full of stunnig images and crafted like a classic city-symphony where the sum of the pieces add up to a larger whole, Purgatorio, a Journey Into the Heart of the Border brings together a universe of small stories to create a compelling and visceral cinematic experience that takes audiences into the very soul of life on the border.

Rubén is a troublemaker who sees school as a monotonous routine that he must follow everyday, until one day his backpack is stolen, which has a very important piece of his final project, now he will have to do the impossible to recover it until it's too late.

Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.

Lopaka is a rather simple looking dude, but he controls all the drug pushing, gangs and whores.

Valeria works in a nocturnal flower shop where the plants emit eroticism. In her circle of friends, some humans have long, pointed ears, others have wings. Filmmaker Magaly Ugarte de Pablo tells a supernatural tale with roots in the Mexican fantasy tradition and a futuristic gender perspective. A gothic universe of self-discoveries, sexual awakenings and human beings in metamorphosis.

Eugenia 'China' Suarez embarks on an intimate conversation that will explore deep corners of their history, as they share in first person: what they think, what they feel, news, information never before revealed and how they see today's fast-paced world.

At Christmas time, the inhabitants of a neighborhood organize a pastorela (play that represents the birth of the baby Jesus) but one of the neighbors dies. The wake is turned by the neighbors into a big party.

A committee of four wise men trains the masked hero Mil Máscaras to defend the world. When someone kidnaps the members of the committee, the hero stops at nothing to rescue them.