Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Under a heavy rain, Víctor, a 22-year-old man, is involved in an awkward family dinner at his grandparents' house. Accompanied by his girlfriend Olivia, his father Alberto, his half brother Miguel and his grandparents Antonio and Reina. By interfering with the attacks of his father and grandfather towards the women and the youngest of the family, Víctor refuses to drink a black wine that seems to be the cause of the family's behavior. While some black leaks appear that begin to soak and flood the dining room. Víctor looks for a way out of the torment that is about to drown him and his family.

The well-known story of the girls who come from their villages to the capital to work helping with household chores, without thinking that in addition to that they were going to do other, better-paid jobs.

Julia is a child living in a Mexican town trapped in the war against drug trafficking. After waiting for days for his father’s return she meets Miria, a hitman boy.

A young boy from Oaxaca travels to the coast in search of new opportunities. But leaving home won’t bring about anything different: he finds degradation with every step he takes, making it clear that his reality leaves no room for ambition

The President of Mexico is in the last period of his term and only counting the days before his retirement. It appears to be a quiet adieu, until an international conflict has him treading murky waters.

Future Romcom

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

An unemployed journalist during her quarantine finds a job option on the cam girl platforms, but a phone call from her daughter will make her reconsider that decision.

A playful and original vision of the indelible mark left by Emiliano Zapata.

Antonio Quintero is The Chief, and everybody obeys him, gunmen and corrupt cops alike. His self assurance does not provide him with a long life, though. His female bodyguard and his three widows decide to avenge him, Shoot-outs and ambushes follow, with plenty of gory deaths. Eventually, one woman provides Antonio Quintero with a son.

10 fantastic and dark conversations tell us the story of a Mexican family through the relations and conflicts of two brothers.

Documentary on the 43 normalistas students who disappeared from the state of Guerrero, Mexico in 2014. This film seeks to understand what really happened with the students of Ayotzinapa and, beyond these disappearances, what is happening in Mexico that has transformed this state into a human rights violator.

Joaquina is aging in a small Mexican village in the 1920s. Her life is boring and she spends her days dreaming of her hero, cowboy Tom Mix. Everything Joaquina wants is to meet him. Her life changes when a bunch of bandits appears nearby. It's time for Tom Mix to stop the thieves and fulfill Joaquina's dreams of adventure.

The horrors of Isla Muerta will come to light, and Jonathan knows it. This incident was what InGen tried to hide at all costs. All that remains is a recording that reveals the hell experienced by a scientist, an apprentice, and a security guard. Their struggle to survive turned into a nightmare as they faced creatures from millions of years ago. Negligence and silence led to a grotesque outcome. That night, the dinosaurs reclaimed the Earth, and all that remained were the echoes of a terror impossible to forget.

Two Bolivian teenagers escape reality by playing Dragon, a retro video game. But, after stealing the treasure of a marginal trapped in the ‘90s, they unleash their fury and he swears revenge, chasing them to burn them alive.

Where does energy go when we leave a space? Post Lucem explores the vibration and movement of light that flows and transforms, either compacting, changing color, multiplying and creating a visual spectacle. This short film uses the stop motion technique with long exposure photographs, using the light painting method, in which brushstrokes of light are created in the air that are captured by the camera. Light represents the energy left behind by bodies and how it transmutes over time. This is an allegory to life, since in this the only constant is change, and we just have to flow and enjoy it.

A cinematic brief tour of an iconic establishment in Mexico City, introducing the culture of night food in the city and the people who are part of it.

Nea, a girl who grows up in an abusive family environment, begins to show symptoms of mental disorders after certain traumatic events. The distinction between reality and illusion plays a crucial role in her life, something she must constantly deal with. Her hallucinations lead her to seek revenge against her father.

Testimony of three Mexican women, Maria Teresa, Esperanza and Luz Maria. Each talks about their jobs, their personal and family relationships, their lack of freedom and the role of women in society in the 1970s.

Following the death of his sister, a boy summons the inhabitants of a town to take revenge on the man who murdered her and thus restore the lost order.

Stories about different characters who have in common the nightclub where they go dancing.

Mexican feature film

Mamacita is an extravagant Mexican beauty queen living in her own kingdom in company of her loyal servants: gardener, chauffeur, chef, housekeeper and nurses. The 95-year-old lady has turned her house into a castle, hiding the open wounds of a prominent Mexican upper class family behind its stone walls. When José Pablo went abroad to study film, Mamacita made him promise to return to Mexico one day to make a film about her life. He conquers his granny's empire like a Trojan horse, discovering the haunted spirits of his own past and the lack of love that his entire clan has suffered from for generations.

Contra El Mar (Against The Sea) is a portrait of a young marriage struggling to find common ground amid hardship and uncertainty.

This is a short film that tries to imitate a rather surreal and bizarre dream. Originally commissioned as an assignment with quite a few limitations such as; it can only have a maximum of 3 cuts, it has to be surreal, and it has to be one minute long, the creators liked the short film and decided to release this project to the public.

A Mexican boy bound for Chicago tries to cross the border, but is the crowded wagon he rides in going the right way? An offbeat, allegorical odyssey that blends absurd humor with pastoral imagery. A young man and a dead man journey north through a subtly surreal desert landscape, picking up a wagonful of odd characters as they go in this darkly humorous satire of contemporary Mexico. Written by TIFF LAFF

Mexican feature film

Roberto, a violent & domineering young man, abuses and rapes Jeni, the domestic worker in his home. Upon learning of this, his mother decides to fire the young woman rather than take action regarding her son's behavior.

Son looks for his father's murderer.

Samuel, father of two young girls who he loves deeply, is an official of a public transportation agency. Taking advantage of his influences to get illegal money, he allows some wrecked minibuses operated by minors to circulate without even caring. Much worse, Samuel is indifferent to the many accidents where innocent people get hurt. However, life will give him a great lesson.

Morgana is a filmmaker who has found in experimental cinema a powerful voice capable of encapsulating the most abstract notions of her identity, unfolding in an amalgam of textures, colored lights, and wildly extravagant music. An intimate portrait of a filmmaker, but above all, a dear friend.

The sculptor and painter Agueda Lozano narrates the first contacts with plastic art that she had in her native Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua; her stay in France and how was her arrival in Europe; her return to Mexico, and her participation in important exhibitions and sculpture projects, among which the definitive insertion sculpture that she inaugurated in the Plaza de México in Paris stands out. Likewise, she talks about her works in the Payment in Kind Collection, about the characters that promoted and inspired her in her career, and about her aesthetic proposals and creation techniques.

A boy plays with his plastic gun to be a hit man. By pretending to shoot his mother, he discovers that violence is not a game.

After forty years living in Mexico City, Antonia longs to go back to her home town, a Mazahua village in the state of Mexico. When she returns, she discovers many things, including that a scarcity of water threatens life in her community.

A place of pleasure and pain, creation and separation, Frida Kahlo's home, known as "La Maison Bleue", was the scene of one of the most singular adventures of the 20th century. In the 1930s, while Europe was being torn apart, Frida Kahlo welcomed painters, actresses, writers, photographers and revolutionaries: from Diego Rivera, the great Mexican painter and Frida's fickle husband, to Leon Trotsky in exile, via André Breton, who dreamed of Mexico as the land of "real surrealism".

Norman is in love with his girlfriend Jessica but she takes a job opportunity out of town and decides to break up with him. Then he meets Lola, a beautiful girl with many things in common. They start to date but Jessica gets back and want everything to be as before. Now Norman has to decide between the love of his life and his soul mate.

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

Horacio lives in Houston with his girlfriend. She is desired by another man, a criminal who has the support of the Commander and who will do whatever it takes to achieve what he wants.

Shot-on-video serial killer action / horror.

A Wounaan teenager and a leader of their community venture into the Darién in search of a sacred bird. Along the way, they will face the dangers that threaten their territory and their culture.