Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

A widowed veterinarian and his son who claims to speak to animals are captured by the Chinese mafia in 1920s Mexicali and forced into the city’s hidden tunnels, where a mythical creature awaits to change their fate.

Annya and Guillermo are aspiring actors entering adulthood in Tijuana: Guillermo works at a Call Center and Annya is an Uber driver. After a misunderstanding, Annya ends up accepting a ride from a director who has just returned to the city to produce his new film.

Following a rare punishment. Tomás, 10 years old, discovers himself as a human being. This punishment becomes the most precious gift of his life. His Freedom.

Anum is a sad young man who, trying to get away from the city to erase bad memories, will meet a strange being.

Triplemanía XXVIII was a professional wrestling event produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA or Triple A). The event was originally scheduled to take place on August 22, 2020 at Arena Ciudad de México in Mexico City, but was moved to December 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It marked the 28th year in a row that AAA has held a Triplemanía show, and the 34th overall show held under the Triplemanía banner since 1993.

Women who live in Ciudad Juarez organize safe havens for children in some of the most violent neighborhoods in Mexico. There, Diana, Joseph and Gael seek out the freedom that they once had on the streets, and try to heal the wounds that the violence of organized crime has caused them.

A short film, Bergmanesque and surrealist in tone, shot in black & white 8mm. A man, a coffin, a cliff. Yet not without humour.

It's hard to believe Paul McCartney - the mariachi-singing ex-Beatle - is turning 70 years-old next month. After a three-hour performance in front of 200,000 people at Mexico City's historic central square, the Zócalo, the ex-Beatle proved that not only is he as talented as ever, but he is as eternally charming and energetic as one would expect from the former mop-topped demigod. McCartney amped the crowd at the Zocalo by yelling "¡Viva Mexico, Cabrones!" -- a sure fire way to get the crowd up onto their feet -- and made sure to pepper Mexican slang into a few of the songs performed that night. For good measure, Sir Paul also waved the Mexican flag. During the concert, McCartney was joined by a traditional Mexican mariachi band for the Beatles' classic, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, an evening highlight that will not be forgotten anytime soon by the masses in attendance.

Anselmo and his family are kidnapped in their own home by Lucas. Sometime later, Anselmo receives a surprise visit.

Revoltoso | Set on 1913. Jabalito, a small one-eyed wild boar is on the scene of one of the first filmed wars in history: the Mexican Revolution. In the midst of the war he discovers cinema. Revoltoso is a stop-motion short film. The look and feel is inspired by Cubism.

After getting out of prison, Ramon Vallarta tries to put his life back together, establishing himself in a new career and reconciling himself with his former sweetheart. Also other stuff. Sequel to Quinto Patio.

A cartel worker demonstrates his skill at climbing, but a series of violent events complicates the Devil's path to power.

A group of young people looking for their place in the world through a party night discovers how loneliness and internal conflicts are intertwined with the search for intimacy, love and drugs at a party where no one is the protagonist. An honest and moving look at the complexity of youth and the struggle to find the human connection in an increasingly isolated world. Will they find hope in the darkness of the night? Or will they be lost in their own loneliness?

A little girl will have to sing to the mythical goddess of water so that this valuable liquid can reach her community.

Valentin Trujillo videohome written by Carlos Enrique Taboada.

A boy migrates from Guerrero to Colima in Mexico, guided by the illusion of his parents, who want him to study high school. Nevertheless, the inequality barriers force him to work as a sugarcane harvester.

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

A group of young Mexicans crosses the Rio Grande and ends up in a town where the Klan is actively persecuting drug smugglers and doesn't care at all about collateral damage.

Rich is a thirty year-old filmmaker whose career seems to go nowhere. While wasting his days in Tequesquitengo, he falls in love with Daniela, a young woman who shares his place in the world, but not the same feelings. A weekend with her and her young friends will make him question his life so far and his concept of love.

The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.

The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her best friend, Clara, to move into her home and enjoy the wealth with her. All fares well until Elena falls in love with a male suitor - and thus threatens to jeopardize Clara's place in the household and her share of the spoils. Indignant, Clara vows to do everything in her power to prevent this new romance from blossoming.

Unscrupulous promoter creates hostilities that ruin the friendships between six young musicians.

Rita Patiño, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was found by a human rights organization inside a Kansas psychiatric hospital, where she had been involuntarily confined, for 12 years, despite the fact that the hospital authorities were never able to determine who was this woman, where did she come from, or what language she spoke. After the consequences of confinement and medical negligence, Rita returned to Mexico, where she lives with Juanita, her niece, and primary caregiver, in a context of precarious economic possibilities. A moving portrait of the lives of these two Tarahumara women, questioning the multiple forms of racism and discrimination that indigenous women in Mexico and the United States face.

Since an attack on students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in 2014 resulted in six deaths and in the forced disappearance of 43, the students’ families have been living in limbo with their unanswered questions, their struggle embodying the psychological and emotional toll of endemic violence upon Mexican society.

Adaptation of The Fall Of The House Of Usher.

A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.

After a year of marriage, Viri and Agustin reunite with Agustin's old high school friends for a dinner where a revelation will test the bonds they had formed over 30 years ago.

The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and Cirque du Soleil creators in the mist of the creation of LUZIA, Cirque du Soleil next big top show. It is a cultural and intimate story of the meeting of creative minds seen through personal interactions and relationship building of the show creators. Filmed in Mexico City, Tijuana, Oaxaca and Montréal, this series features: Daniele Finzi Pasca (Co-author and Director of LUZIA), Patricia Ruel (Direction of Creation), Simon Carpentier (Composer), Eugenio Caballero (Set and Props Designer) as well as Majo Cornejo and Rodrigo de la Mora (Musicians).

Two swimming brothers, Reyes and Luis Baños, from Corralero. Through their annual competition, values ​​such as rivalry and brotherly love emerge. This competition is not only physical but also emotional, reflecting the deep connection with their homeland.

Maria, a young woman facing the loss of her only love, writes daily letters to cope with her grief. In a final act of farewell and acceptance, she decides to let go of the past and begin living to fulfill the dreams they both had.

An outsider man comes across the house of El Enfrascador de Almas. Without him knowing, the outsider listens to the detailed explanation of what an Enfrascador does in the day-to-day work of trade.

Mexican feature film

In 2006, a summer course with a foreign teacher changes the life of a family in Chiapas. Years later, their grandson reconstructs the story, uncovering a dark secret hidden within the ordinary.

A short documentary that exposes sexual harassment against men through two intimate testimonies, accompanied by images in public spaces where skin becomes a canvas for insults and aggression. A raw and sensitive portrait that questions the social silence surrounding this issue.

A man tells the story of the time he filmed a UFO and nobody seemed to care.

Breathe. A group of maximum security prisoners recounts the injuries they suffered as children. Breathe. The prisoners themselves narrate the wounds they have inflicted. Breathe. The box reminds them that they have to suffer to continue living.

Short film. Plot unknown.

Marcos is a 65 years old artist. He works in a gas station, depressed and annoyed with his life because he has never been able to exhibit his paintings. One day, Luis a young thief who's 13 years old, enters to his house thinking it was empty. Luis is the only one who knows about Marcos art. Suddenly, a kind of friendship starts between Luis and Marcos. And both begin to find new answers about life and art.

By night, Esteban (Sebastian Ligarde) is an assassin for the mob. By day, Esteban is a pimp and his boss explains to him that the demand right now are prostitutes that are very average looking. He manages to find one girl and her name is Julia (Vanessa Yudic). Julia is a young secretary who mostly keeps to herself, but still longs for a good man in her life. Julia at first is contemplated by the job offer Esteban has offered her considering it's prostitution, but since she's very attracted to Esteban, she takes the job and let's him take fully advantage of her and her innocence. Julia, young, naive, and virginal, thinks Esteban really loves her because she gives herself up to him. She thinks all that he does is out of love and "tough" love.

Mexican romantic musical.

Stand-up comedian Alexis de Anda shares thoughts on gynecologists, drugs, and sex.

Mexico, 1940: Despite peoples' disbelief in him, and rejection having been called "Crazy", Guillermo; a young Mexican scientist creates a new, revolutionary electromagnetic transmission color system for television in the basement of his house.

These are the whispers of the last time two best friends were together one afternoon on the rooftop.