Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

A 1938 film.

Federal agent on horseback comes to town to catch some crooks. Series western: Mauricio Rosales El Justiciero number 8.

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

Sofía, aka 'ShyPussyCat' is going through a rough patch after her OnlyFans subscribers drop considerably. Because of this, Sofía decides to further the morbidity of her followers by starting to sell self-harming photos and videos.

A monster hunter confronts the evil vampire Vanaccek.

Luz is a young dancer who will have to face her inner demons moments before going on stage.

Jhony passes the summer with his older brother, who wastes his time along his friends, obsessed with alcohol, pornography and the different women he takes into his mother's bedroom. One day, a girl named Misha arrives at the neighborhood, fracturing their monotony. Nobody knows anything about her, except that they call her Misha because of her green eyes, like those of cats.

The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he was turned into the wind.

In Mexico City, poetry emerges at night as an act of resistance against urban chaos. Among the shadows and the pulse of protest, a chorus of poets raise it's voice, revealing their drive for life and death."

Seventeen-year-old Noemí lives under strict religious control where desire is sin. After connecting with another girl, she is consumed by visions of punishment. As reality and hallucination blur, she confronts the cost of repressing who she is.

Budo Sento Championship 23 took place Friday, August 2, 2024 at Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City, Mexico.

Susurro is a sonic narrative film that follows the journey of two women who climb to the top of a desolate mountain searching for the whisper of the universe.

LUX Fight League 38 was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, December 1, 2023 the Showcenter Complex in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Simón González (Ourense, Spain, 1964) is one of the greatest athletes Spain has given, a living leyend of international kickboxing. His legacy: thirteen kickboxing world championships and a historical record that hasn’t changed his disciplined and hardworking personality. After being the King of the World, Simón suffers a home accident that puts him in a wheelchair until today.

A tragic account of the illegal traffic of human beings in the border. A spine-tingling adventure, intense drama of a group of undocumenteds in a race against death.

La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.

When Marcos decides to buy a Plymouth, his car obsession takes another turn and lead him and his two friends on a tumultuous, and rather entertaining, adventure.

A young woman lives a quiet live, with a new romance at hand, until she finds her own image on a missing person poster.

A nostalgic-night trip through Mexico City. Through the heels of Gloria and Eden we will wander through those places that come to life when the sun goes down, where gender is blurred, colors vibrate, and souls shine under neon lights.

Love awakens unbridled passions, where erotic games, fantasies and ambition are catalysts that intermingle to the beat of this sublime symphony.

Written, produced, photographed, directed, and manipulated during performance by Rafael Corkidi, the "video theater" Querida Benita (1989) is a spectacle that breaks with the formats of film and video by situating itself in a sui generis setting (the Manuel M. Ponce Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts or a small stage in the basement of the El Juglar bookstore in August-October 1989), but it encounters the limitations of the dramatic current that it, moreover, inaugurates. These are the limitations of Mexican socialist unrealism.

In the shadow of a presidential election, Rodrigo, Héctor, and Gerardo wander the city in search of alcohol. The dry law unlocks a flood of hidden emotions. Driven by anger, sadness, and love, they run, seeking solace in the urban chaos.

Intimate portrait of Mexico City through sad and happy memories, told by some of its inhabitants.

Job is a deaf boy who is going through his adolescence in the company of his girlfriend Lili, but very far from his mother Elena. He spends his days devising a way to kill Elena; he tests with others and with himself the effectiveness of his plans.

Etta Tall, an indigenous woman from the Inupiaq tribe of Alaska, travels to Russia in search of the relatives she lost during the Cold War, with the aim of bringing them to Alaska for a family reunion.

Three women intimately share how they faced the world and their own family when deciding to terminate a pregnancy.

The pigeon is probably fake, says the five-year-old daughter of Mexican filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky. Perhaps it’s a robot. Why else would a pigeon sit so still on that nest she built atop the power lines, diagonally under their window? For seven days and nights, Polgovsky filmed the bird from his second floor apartment. Together with daughter Mile, he watches life go by: the bin men, the neighbours and their dogs, the gas delivery man, the squirrels dashing through the treetops in search of food. All from the same perspective – basically identical to that of the brooding pigeon, who gets most attention. "Papa, why are you filming her, really?"

A young couple will be forced to face their own reality upon the birth of their first daughter, and in the process to awaken the ghosts that had been asleep in their own subconsciousness, to the point of even questioning where the fine line between life or death lies.

Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from her father's insurgent connections... while her own affections are torn between two brothers.

A woman in NYC screams to find her mate.

Cecilia tries to follow her normal routine. She goes to classes; however, she decides to go somewhere else. She tries to work on a project but fails. Javier, a friend of Cecilia, invites her to a party. Cecilia agrees to go to distract herself and feel better. Something bad happens, and Cecilia needs to stop it.

This is the story of Juan, a boy who feels the opression of his social environment and the abandonment. He confronts this reality through the image of his prefered mexican superhero, the lucha libre wrestler and film star Santo. Juan also believes that his father secretly was Santo, so he feels a link to him.

Crossing the Mixtec sierra on foot, Lito arrives at dawn in an Oaxacan town, where a hotel manager helps him hide, believing him to be an 'innocent' undocumented.

A young man explores a page of fictional faces for fun; everything seems normal, until he sees his own face on the screen.

Erick has had bad luck in love, but one day he meets Sandra, the love of his life, who has a very turbulent past.

A group of men try to cheat on their wives with hilarious consequences.

Adventure film directed by Carlos Véjar hijo.

In the aftermath of a revolution, military forces face scattered rebel groups while soldiers navigate personal relationships and love interests amid the conflict.

One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day in both directions. Among them are women from Ciudad Juárez who cross to give birth in El Paso, Texas. Even with visas that allow them to cross, their journeys are uncertain. Gaby and Luisa, two women from Ciudad Juárez, cross legally into El Paso, Texas, in order to give birth. Two Chicana midwives in El Paso, Lina and Sandra, support the women who cross. After living through the extreme violence that engulfed Ciudad Juárez from 2008-2012 and with the looming threat of obstetrical violence in Mexican hospitals, Gaby and Luisa choose to cross, seeking a safer future for their children and the opportunity for natural childbirth with midwives. They risk losing their visas, getting turned back, and harassment at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol. Against the backdrop of oppressive U.S. border policy, these women's stories of risk and resilience reveal the complexities of life on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roman, a television student, invites his former lover, Lilia, to his apartment. With a small video camera placed at ground level, he will try to record the seduction and the subsequent intercourse. The film, made entirely with a Hi 8 video camera, plays with the viewer's perspective by presenting a set of situations susceptible to different readings.

Showbiz family is stressed when wife gets sick and husband starts paying attention to costar.