Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

With the commercialization of the Day of the Dead as well as the growing popularity of Halloween, the Catrina wonders if Mexico will eventually forget about her and their traditions.

Lucía, an adolescent who studies at a Catholic school for girls, is at the stage of her life where all her classmates are changing except her. At an inopportune moment her menstruation arrives, Lucia full of fear and questions is condemned by the people around her who judge her for the changes in her body.

The members of Mexican pop group “Los Temerarios” face challenges in order to achieve fame.

Sofia is diagnosed with a mental illness. Is only what we can see and hear real?

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.

Heroes of Flesh and Bones

A Mexican immigrant fights for his life after being threatened by the mob.

Beyond the hostilities of the Libyan civil upheaval rose one of the most compelling expressions of the Arab awakening: an unarmed front. For a full year we follow the peaceful battle that began during the first days of the uprising. We see artists, intellectuals, ex-military, and young Libyans who sought to lead a different kind of revolution, one of ideas. Beyond the Frontline is an intimate and humane story. It explores the contradictions that coexist within Libyan society, in their struggle for justice and liberty.

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

"Alguien se acerca", "Viajeros", "Lilí" and "Azul celeste", four stories directed by Ramón Cervantes, Rafael Montero, Gerardo Lara and María Novaro, respectively.

An unnamed man goes to a hotel to commit suicide with pills while listening to songs by Marlene Dietrich. But that act that seems to trigger the mere memory of places and experiences before dying, suddenly merges with other characters and dramatic experiences, which give life to a limit work, of desperate, almost intolerable courage, obstinate in dismantling all institutional discourses of the history of Mexico, without ceasing to use extraordinarily all possible cinematographic resources.

The grande finale of the Chy y Mauricio saga! Jose Luis and El Zarco unite to defeat corrupt officer Barragan.

On a rooftop, surrounded by clouds and concrete, two friends find a space to spend their last day together. They look back on their childhood and share new laughs before embarking on their life journey.

A young man falls in an emotional crisis after learning his girlfriend is pregnant and willing to have an abortion. Due to his incapacity to deal with the situation, the shock takes him to a sensorial and psychic travel through disturbing images in twisted environments where he struggles to find her and be together one more time.

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."

After the kidnapping of her daughter, Paris becomes involved in the underworld of extortion and homicides to try to get her back.

Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another man.

A movie about a thief who got caught but redeemed himself by getting a job as a locksmith.

El Pueblo Del Sol captures not only the visual delights of Mexico today, but also grasps the day-to-day life of a people in a land filled with future promise. One is mesmerized by rich images of such natural beauties as the Isla Contoy in the Caribbean, Copper Canyon in the Chihuahua Sierra, the Paricutin Volcano, and Ensenada's Bay. Short IMAX documentary.

Invisible and forgotten, David remains a silent presence in his ex’s life. But as she moves on, he’s faced with the painful truth: some spirits cling not out of malice, but out of love.

In this deeply moving dialogue between mother and son, Mexican Tzotzil director Xun Sero confronts his past with honesty, understanding and forgiveness. Growing up without a father, he blamed his mother for the paternal absence in his life; this, for him, became his first act of violence against the feminine and his own mother. Societal pressure and shame prevented his mother from speaking about the realities of violence in her childhood and within her partnership with the director's father. Guided by the desire to understand who his mother is, Sero has created an extraordinarily sensitive first film where both mother and son open a dialogue in an attempt at self-discovery. Bravely, together, they open the door to a room of darkness and unknowns and begin to walk down a path of healing.

1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...

After being evicted from his house because he was behind on the rent, a man looks for his brother, who is a priest. Before meeting with him, he spies on the man to see if he has any money.

Panzeri was an honest man, a critical journalist, a freethinker. He faced power and died alone and forgotten. Kohan is an outsider obsessed with doing justice, getting Panzeri out of ostracism and bringing him back to this world. Without Panzeri, football has only a few days to live.

Based on a true story, it tells the story of opera singer Paco Sierra, who, realizing that the life of an artist does not provide him with enough money, plans and carries out a terrorist act: He assures the passengers of an airplane that he has placed a bomb.

Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.

Two farmers are stripped, without warning, of a large part of the land they work.

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.

In 2053 Mexico, a street-smart teen named Octavio and his cadaver K9 robot named Gato search for his missing father in a land ruled by cartels, uncovering a mysterious rebel group called AZUL that’s been searching for him.

After a long and successful career as a skater, Veronica has stepped away from competing, but continues her legacy by organizing skateboarding workshops to teach young girls from indigenous communities to skate, and to push them to fight back for the public spaces that have been occupied by men and to practice a sport that also belongs to women.

Pamela, a teenager who aspires to become a famous dancer, is invited to a dance academy run by the mysterious Madame Veronique. Once there, Pamela will learn that to obtain fame she will have to pay a very high price.

A couple travels to Cuba for a romantic getaway. Leaving Havana for Varadero, Paula convinces Lorenzo to take a detour at the famous tobacco plantations in the Viñales region.

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.

Is drinking juice as normal as having a deja vu?

Resembling a constellation of ideas and sentiments of a (still) wounded land, the taxi ride of the filmmaker through Mexico City interweaves Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s account of “The True History of the Conquest of New Spain”; from there sprouts the echoes of violence and what remains in silence.

1951, Mexico City. After synthesizing the main component of the contraceptive pill, young scientist Luis Miramontes deals with the religious and personal consequences of his groundbreaking invention.

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.

Nacho (Ismael Osorio) and Julio (Emir Martinez) ignore their feelings towards Marcela in order to unleash their most prosaic desires. The deeds of these two friends will have someone face desolation. But who?

Cecilia is seeking a new means of artistic expression. She doesn´t want to have children, they would hamper her development. An attempted robbery brings her together with Rafael, a 10 year old Chicano boy who can´t return to the USA. They inadvertently establish a mother-son relationship.

It's the story of four friends who think they have a boring life. One day, they decide to leave everything behind to follow their dream and venture into the soccer business. This is about the adventures they'll have to go through to buy a player.

Twelve Mexicans, scattered across different cities worldwide, capture their personal experiences during the early days of the 2020 pandemic lockdown. With only the resources at hand, they document their daily lives, reflecting the uncertainty, confusion, and anxiety that marked this unprecedented moment in history. From the relative comfort of isolation at home to the vulnerability of those at risk of losing their jobs or fighting the virus on the front lines.

Budo Sento Championship 25 took place Friday, September 27, 2024 at Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City, Mexico.

Susana meets Angel, they hit it off, they like each other, they make a good match. But everything crumbles when Angel begins to disappear, like a ghost.

In an effort to forget his dead wife, an old man drowning in his memories decides, with the help of a young scavenger, to get rid of all the items of the home he formed with her.