Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

After Diego is the victim of a hit-and-run, his brother Pablo recruits a team of eclectic friends to enter a soccer tournament, win the prize money and pay for his brother’s life-saving surgeries.

Juan Camaney returns with his large group of soldiers, all of them dedicated to action & battle.

A portrait of Tomás Sánchez, a leading contemporary Latin American artist, showcasing his life, work, and profound reflections. The presentation highlights his remarkable artistic achievements and the deep meditative qualities of his art.

An ancient jewel is sought after by criminals & archeologists.

The crazy adventures of a third-rate mechanic who works in a hangar at Mexico City airport. This mechanic spends his time telling fictional adventures to a little boy named "Memin," who calls himself "his co-pilot." One day, "Captain Thousand Hours" is forced to prove his courage to help a beautiful young woman named Sandra find her family. Forced by circumstances, Captain Thousand Hours must prove to "Memin" and his other friends that his experiences were real.

Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home afterwards. Many complications, much melodrama.

A peasant woman arrives in the capital and is run over by a young man, who, to compensate her, gives her a job as a maid.

Months after the gruesome events of Ramen Hell, Alejandro and Frank try to escape to Colombia with the help of René, a mysterious driver, and Tarántula, a thug drug dealer.

The Rastreadoras de El Fuerte are a group of mothers of disappeared persons in northern Sinaloa who, in the absence of the authorities, twice a week go out with picks and shovels in search of the remains of their children; a testimony of the abandonment of the State, the aggressions of the drug traffickers, the indifference of society and the pain, but also of the strength and courage that keep these women together, and of their empowerment to mobilize society in community organization.

A young motorcyclist rides and rides in circles on his motorcycle. The more he rides, the more beautiful he gets. Is his beauty his, or does his beauty belongs to the others? Is he playing the game of the world, or is the world playing his game? Where does he ends and the world begins? Is he inside of himself or is he outside of himself? And is there such a thing as being "inside" or "outside" when you are THIS beautiful?

It narrates the obstacles Sebastian Delgado, a slacker and aspiring writer faces when, to win the love of a beautiful girl, finally decides to do something: a movie.

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What can thousands of electric energy workers do after being laid off from one day to the other? 16,599 workers reinvent themselves in order to resist, to go back to their jobs and also avoid that electric energy in Mexico be privatized. Four years of amazing stories of resistance and of confrontation with the Mexican government, in the midst of an acute global labor crisis.

Documentary about the triumph of the Mexican National Team at the Olympic Games in London. Discover tales, stories and hear the different perspective of the Mexican team players. Have fun with this recognition of the 18 players who participated in the Olympic Games.

Grace, a 15-year-old teenager, spends her free time playing Roblox. One day, Grace meets someone in the game who, seemingly innocently, quickly gains her trust. What Grace doesn't know is that this someone will completely change her life in just a couple of hours.

It is a warm afternoon in Mexico City; Cornelio and Fabiola are finishing their workday. While they pass through different points of the center and Cornelio narrates the world to Fabiola - In the spaces of silence-; a game of love and intimacy is revealed.

Alex wants his parents to live the present, to recognize him and to cope with his little brother's death which happened nine years ago.

Bad-hat townsfolk want to dispossess local Indians of their tribal lands; priestess and white ally fight back. One of four in a series.

Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.

Rocio, a Maya Mam girl, lives in the mountains with her mother, who is pregnant and her granny. Due to an early delivery from her mother, Rocio is stuck with caring for a herd of sheep, the first time she has done it on her own. Playing in the mountains she loses one of the sheep. Looking for it, she will lose the rest of the herd. In the midst of this tragedy, Rocio will have to face her innocence, conquer her fear of fog and learn that freedom entails responsibility. Nature will teach her that you do not have to defeat your fears, you just have to experience them. The Greatest House in the World is a story of children -which we all are- when facing fears, the unknown, the uncertain... the fog.

About two girls with an intense friendship and a shared dream of moving to Hawaii. They decide that the best way to raise the money they need, is to rob the most prolific drug dealer in their neighborhood.

Uncultured nouveau- riche wants to be received in high society. Loose adaptation of Moliere.

When King Motecuzoma dies in 1468, a drought sets upon the Mexicas' land. The younger Motecuzoma sends a retinue to collect tributes from the peasants and make an offering to Coatlicue at Aztlán, the home of their ancestors. The peasant Ollin finds a discarded tribute and makes his own journey to Aztlán to appease his rulers.

March and August find themselves with the responsibility to find the key to open a chest, crossing the barriers between reality and fantasy.

In Mexico, in 1994, Mariano, a tormented teenager has decided to commit suicide, leaving behind his testimony: a videotape explaining the World the reasons he had to do this. The result is a nostalgic and touching portrait of a young man´s soul who´s trying to redeem a family tragedy caused by him a few years before.

Maria is a mother who, after the departure of her son, faces loneliness and the imminent loss of memory and her conception of time.

Favored son of a wealthy rural family forced to go into hiding after killing someone in a duel.

Short animated film. Plot unknown.

Three young drug addicts are admitted into rehab, oblivious to the fact that the clinic is actually the hideout of a gang of drug dealers.

A man is searching for a gang that raped and murdered his wife and daughter, he's ready for revenge.

Florian, a cheerful explorer of the multiverse, spends his life traveling through endless worlds in search of things to love. Guided by a magical door, he discovers impossible creatures, breathtaking landscapes, and wonders beyond imagination. But when he finds a world more beautiful than any he has ever seen, Florian realizes that the greatest adventure isn’t discovering new places, it’s choosing to stay, and becoming part of the love he found there.

Stop wasting energy following the plot. Who cares if your socks don't match? This is the mental vacation you needed. So sit down, relax and enjoy the best that a mercantile society can offer us: Fake remedies, seizure-inducing lights and the tenderness of opening your heart to a bandit. Classic songs with new faces and new songs that promise to be pool aerobics classics.

Mexican feature film

A biopic about the writer Kenneth Grahame, the birth of his iconic story "The Wind In The Willows", and his life with wife Elspeth, and Alastair their troubled young son.

Three stories centered on Simón (Manuel Ibáñez), a kind of multiple hero who runs through the countryside and the city: a middle-class hippie, a frustrated guerrilla revolutionary and admirer of Che Guevara, and a troglodyte in rags, all in which he interacts with different women. Thesis work.

Following a suicide attempt, 19 year old Lito travels from Monterrey to Querétaro to visit his 20 years old cousin Koko; where he joins his group of friends with the intention of selling drugs to pay for a weekend trip to the beaches of Michoacán. Among psychotropic pills, LSD and mushrooms; among improvised friendships and trips to nature, a bond is created reinforcing their friendship; while Lito seems to find the path towards reconciliation.

Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps.

Emi wakes up one day feeling strange.

The story focuses on the resilience of a girl in the face of the loss of her grandfather.

Mauricio flees from the police and takes refuge in the apartment of Ivonne, who gives him blood to save his life. Carlos the policeman who is in love with her, finds Mauricio's passport and has the inspector offer 10 thousand pesos to whoever turns him in. Mauricio confesses to Ivonne that he is innocent of the crime, and asks her to marry him.

Juan is a modest young man who is new to the city. Falling in love with his neighbor Maria, he begins to uncover the mysteries that surround the Motel where he lives. In the process, he immerses himself into his own darkness.

Salomon is celebrating his daughter's birthday until Isaias ambushed him ending his bloodline. What Isaias won't count on is that Salomon survived and he will come back for a vengeance.

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.

What happens to places when they lose their people? Where do all the stories go?