Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

The ghost of a murdered man haunts a police officer, while his squad mates deal with a serial killer.

Melodrama about a girl brought up by a stepmother.

This DVD examines the multiple points of cultural contact between the United States and Mexico. From the Santa Barbara Fiestas and South Carolina's kitschy "South of the Border" tourist complex, to a Mexican Beatles cover band and Chicano rap, this film reveals the borderlands as a laboratory of hybridity that continues to ignite the popular imagination of each nation. Working at the boundaries of experimental film and documentary travelogue, this film weaves together found footage, interviews, performance art, and music video, producing a masterful commentary that is at once poetic, disturbing and hilarious. Includes appearances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Aztlán Underground, among others.

A woman succumbs to depression when her husband abandons her, and her daughter takes on the duty of looking after her.

After discovering a lost message in deep space, a traveler sets out on the path to a mysterious planet. Her mission is to find the source of the message and learn from the civilization that originated it. However, upon arriving at the place she will encounter an unexpected event.

Four young athletes escape to tour the streets of Guadalajara by night.

Mexican feature film

The high energy movement in Mexico is visited without prejudice through its places and its protagonists. The icon Pascal Languirand is one of them.

After carrying out a murder, the killer hides the body in the back of his car. However, he is tormented by the sound of the victim's knocking, which grows louder and louder until his paranoia gets the better of him.

Kamikaze bird that has embarked on a journey to a savage place of no return. A representation of the state of overflowing violence brought from drug trafficking through the oneiric vision of a marginal teenager recruited by a cartel.

After her mother dies, Lina starts selling food on the streets. Arianna, one of her regular customers, constantly makes fun of Lina and her difficult situation, until one day Lina decides she has had enough of that.

A secret agent who dies on a mission asks Heaven to let him go back to Earth to complete his mission, and much to his disapproval, he is reincarnated in a bellboy's body.

A family of scientific researchers visits a Pacific island and is thrown into disarray when the local sex goddess bewitches the head of the household.

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Following the death of one of their mothers, Pablo and Regina, two unassuming friends, quietly flee the city in search of something that might finally bring meaning to their lives.

A middling actor lands a dream role, as he goes through his day and the complications that come with it.

Luis, a midle aged introverted taxidermist that lives isolated from society suffers an episode of dissociative amnesia because of the impact the death of his only daughter has on him.

Mexican feature film

Are robots really different from us if they learn our ways? The Promise is a short film that looks at the future reality of a world in which those things created by man are a step to be confused with us.

Paco is a charismatic taco salesman from Guadalajara whose life feels stuck between routine and the desire for more. On Day of the Dead he met Gabby, an assistant at a Los Angeles fashion brand, and after a chaotic night that ended with his taco stand blowing up, she invites him to try his luck in the United States, where Paco faces cultural barriers and conflicts.

Filmmaker Fernando Barreda and producer Jessica Villegas return to their homeland to film a dramedy.

A day in the life of Martin, a transgender artist from a small indigenous village in Michoacán, Mexico. As a queer up and coming artist, everyday Martin must navigate corrupt politics, micro aggressions and misconceptions of the LGTBQ+.

An impaired teenager attempts to reconnect with an old friend.

Humberto sees the woman he thought was dead coming out of a house with her lover and trying to steal an inheritance.

A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life

At the time of the 90's two brothers usually visit the OVNI sightings area in the town of Atlimeyaya in Atlixco, Puebla Mexico. By means of a regression, they discover that they were abducted.

The cell phone schemes behind their users’ backs to jump into their skin and turn them into prisoners of light.

SDL Estela is a woman who lives between reality and imagination inside a psychiatric hospital. The recurring apparitions of Diana, his daughter, will cause Estela to prepare to face her fate and finally accept the loss of Diana.

The patron Saint Festivities is the most important celebration of the year. Esther knows it and has a great hope to attend. Esteban, her husband thinks the opposite. The situation of the past involve a debate in this elderly couple to attend the celebration that can relive their relationship for the last time.

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

Rodolfo learned to dive as a child and soon it became his passion and way of life. Carlos his younger brother, learned through him. Carlos works with his son Alonso, who was born deaf and because of that he cannot dive, but he is an expert assisting the diver from the boat. They all share love and respect for their crafts as fishermen, which provides livelihood for their families. A profession at risk in the region because of the owners of the land near the coast attempting to violate the free Access right to the beaches, hindering the course of their work as fishermen. The Mexican Constitution grants them that right, but local authorities do not guarantee their right to continue to ply their work as fisherman, a craft with many dangers both in the sea and out of it.

Mexican feature film

A beautiful cabaret dancer falls in love with a sailor who promises to return and marry her. Trouble ensues.

Antony, a nurse shaped by his father's early absence and the death of his best friend, moves through his days in a quiet state of disconnection. One night, he encounters a mysterious old man who claims to be a “translator of problems.” Among the buildings of Tlatelolco, hospital wards, and the hidden streets of Mexico City, the two embark on a journey where, little by little, they help each other heal and reframe their understanding of family, death, and salsa.

Paul Leduc, Rafael Castanedo, Óscar Menéndez and other students filmed the CNH assemblies and took to the streets to record the rallies, demonstrations and confrontations that the various student groups held against the police and the army throughout 1968.

Mabel tells us through her experiences how it is that at such a young age she starts in a world of prostitution, leading her to a process of evolution and transformation throughout her life.

Danielle, a young musician, sets off on a journey with Diego, her best friend, while both of them face the pain of breaking-up with their partners. Ending up at the north border of Mexico, they’ll have to use their abilities as musicians to survive as they get to know the complicated context between the US and Mexico. Two broken hearts, two friends, a road trip, a new lover, but fundamentally, a deep need to find themselves.

A man awakens in a dystopian reality.

Romelia, a young Mexican queer raver, begins a journey of search and identity transition that puts at stake her love relationship with “El Flako”, by breaking and questioning her daily life, her new desires and needs.

Enoc, a boy from an indigenous community fighting against the dispossession of his lands, is afraid to return home to explain everything to his mother without Nathil, his little sister. He suspects that the army killed her when they fired on the protest that the people of his town were holding. Frightened by the bells that call people to mass for the dead, he desperately searches for her among the rocks and waves of the sea.

Giovanni, the nephew of the president of an Italian society to safeguard good customs, is sent to Brazil to study aboriginal tribes. He stays in a boarding school sponsored by his uncle, but is actually a dating house run by Madame.

On the most important day of his life, Ulises, an advertising designer, is taken hostage in his own office by a beautiful and mysterious woman.