Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Mexican feature film

Obscure Valentin Trujillo, Roebrto Ballesteros, Juan Valentin film.

Susana, a teenager girl scout, walks with her friends into the woods to play a mysterious rite of initiation.

This short film follows the story of a student who is forced to leave the country because of a lack of a valid visa. On his last day in Berlin, he experiences the harshness of displacement, what it means to belong to a city and the absurdity of bureaucracy.

After TheMatch's death, mysterious disappearances occur, happyman will discover what is behind it.

Two little shepherds talk about their hopes and dreams while shepherding their flock in the majestic forest that extends at the foot of the Alfonso Serrano Large Millimeter Telescope.

Natalia, a radio host searching for her missing husband, becomes entangled with a smuggler seeking revenge and an amnesiac obsessed with her as his key to recovery. Against the backdrop of a radio program sharing stories of the disappeared, her quest reveals a web of loss and unanswered questions.

A group of teens smoke a cigarette were they are not allowed, what could go wrong?

One night, after finding an incredibly rare book, a group of friends find themselves caught up in a loop of highly complex mysteries and unproven murders.

In a city condominium, a group of neighbors is spied in their respective apartments by a very peculiar visitor.

A girl and two boys watch a movie together in an apartment. The sexual tension between them is obvious, with the girl and the boy fighting for attention, as it gets to a point of explosion. Who will take the first step?

It's been six years since Mariano graduated from film school. He's about to turn 30 and he still lives with his mom, spends most of his time watching movies and has never written a single screenplay. His comfortable routine changes when his 15-year-old cousin, Ramiro, moves in with them.

Two brothers, trying to pay off a debt to the most dangerous man in the neighborhood, trick unsuspecting people into believing they can communicate with their loved ones through séances. The consequences will be dire, as, albeit accidentally, the line between the living and the dead has been crossed.

Leila, who has just gone through a breakup, feels an overwhelming need to express her feelings toward her former partner and refuses to share them with anyone but him, causing her to somatize her need to speak.

Emiliana, a black kitten from Barcelona, has led a remarkable life. Having weathered a divorce, multiple relocations, and a move to a new country, she now dreams of returning to her beloved Spain. Her journey reflects resilience and a longing for home amidst the many changes she has faced.

In Michoacán, El Salo, along with four other inmates, stealthily escapes from a rural prison.

Mexican horror. No plot synopsis available.

A nebula is a crib where new stars are born. Just how she was, one is on the same journey. They'll always find each other, reconciling on the cycle.

An entity watches over the dreams of a young man named José, but something imminent unfolds as the boundaries between dreaming and waking begin to dissolve.

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

Four experts in different areas such as religion, philosophy and thanatology, share their wisdom when it comes to death.

In the middle of the night, a woman struggles with her memories, which go too fast, she dreams but with her eyes open.

Amelia arrives at the hospital, her father is dying. Her frustration and pain keep her on her feet.

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.

In the late 40's, in a post-war environment, Luis is nine years old and lives the constant absence of his mother. Mrs. Acela has an unusual job, helps "to die", but her son does not know exactly what his job is and all the time he is worried. About to turn years Luis makes a request that will mark his life.

Evil mastermind Karla plans a robbery with her powerful army of zombie robots but a superhero group known as Los Jaguares will do anything to stop her.

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.

In Mexico, the war against drug traffic has collected more than 90,000 lives. As a result, thousands of orphans are left alone. By far, this casualties are larger than the ones from the Vietnam War. Nevertheless, the mexican youth still wants to follow this path thanks to a false promise: the narcos always succeed. Jose, the son of one of the main initiators of drug trafficking in Mexico and mentor of two of the biggest drug Kingpins in the world, tells his side of the story.

Bad-hats operating a mine kidnap men from neighboring towns to work as slave labor. Cowboy hero puts a stop to all that mess.

A lonely little girl tries to create a new world for herself and an equally lonely man. In a visually stunning dreamscape, she finds that freedom and home are synonymous — and that they come at a steep cost.

A documentary about women who still preserve the tradition of nixtamalizing corn as in pre-Hispanic times. Chicomecóatl is the Mexica goddess of fertility and the corn that gives man the seed that will be the sustenance of all their generations.

The world has woken up surprised by a massive catastrophe, the disappearance of millions of people who are apparently homosexual. Ale, a girl who was adopted by a same-sex family, is in danger, as the country's government is taking preventive measures in light of the event, and intends to return all the children who were adopted by these families to the orphanage where they came from.

From the mouth of the Rio Grande to the beaches of Tijuana, two girls play on separate ends of the U.S. Mexico border thousands of miles apart.

Anything can happen when five amusing women celebrate a special occasion in a luxury penthouse in front of the sea. And when love knocks on the door, the fun is on.

Just as Elisa and Marcos are about to break up, they find out that they’re going to have a baby. Together, they will have to face their problems if they want to recover their lost love.

Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.

UWC 48 took place Friday, September 29, 2023 at the Entram Gym de Tijuana in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

Luciana, a young, struggling single mother moves to a seedy Mexican town to find a proper job and provide a good education and a decent living to her son. Jaime Gansi a lonely, self loathing, compulsive gambler is obsessed with beat world weary and expert tahur Almada to prove himself and others that he is not a born loser as everyones calls him. Destiny brings together this out of their luck characters and romance blooms: Luciana thinks she found the right man and a father to her son and Jaime thinks he finally found a woman who believes in him. But his unstoppable addiction to gambling threats their new found happiness.

A Mexican couple out fronts different situations on their way to making a movie in Humboldt County. On their journey they question themselves about destiny, signals, independent filmmaking, will; and they represent their thoughts and learnings in musical and psychedelic sequences, dreams and spontaneous words and phrases that construct these wonders and seekings of their minds.

A humble shoe shiner finds fame and fortune as a wrestler without knowing he wears a dead man's mask.

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.