Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

A kid find his passion through the experience of his grandfather, all of those teachings come alive in a truly wonderful way.

A drama tale set in Mexico.

Alonso and Armando embark on a road trip, reminiscing about the women they once loved, as their journey becomes a reflection on past relationships and unspoken truths.

In a context with few possibilities of mobility, Diego and his mother are faced with the need to share time and space. Household chores and interviews accompany their routine, suddenly, a malfunctioning boiler interrupts life. Diego's girlfriend's birthday is coming up and with it several decisions to make.

A moment of confusion dramatically alters the destinies of its main characters—a transvestite, an ambitious young man, and a boy just beginning to discover himself—whose lives become inextricably linked in this poignant drama.

When a man realizes that a huge clock is keeping an eye on the time he has to live, he will do everything possible to avoid his final destiny.

Mexican feature film

Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.

The date of two teenagers in the 70s becomes romantic, conflictive and decisive for both individuals, leading them to make important decisions in a matter of one night.

"Musa" is a gothic romance short film that explores the complex relationship between the obsessed artist and his muse. When an artist in full decline, Matruzzi (Humberto Zurita) takes up the relationship with Eva (Ana Isabel Esqueira) just before his last show , every thing is OK…. Until a monster peeks out.

Religious melodrama about the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.

Murió la fantasía is an intimate documentary that follows the journey of Denisse Guerrero, lead singer of Belanova, as she seeks to reclaim control of her story. From her childhood in Los Mochis to the impact of fame and her retirement from the stage, the film explores, with honesty and sensibility, themes such as bullying, boundaries, and resilience. Through archives, testimonies, and new songs, Denisse reveals herself not as an icon, but as a complex woman who decides to rediscover herself and live her personal and artistic reality.

In Lisbon, from the height of the Torel viewpoint, the city expands as far as the eye can see making it the perfect place to think and remember. Through encounters with the people that inhabit the viewpoint in different ways, Daniela proposes a reflection on belonging to a new city, crafting a journey to her family memories. She imagines her mother and grandmother when they were her age, thinking about the first places where they lived.

A group of writers from Hidalgo get together to generate their works and create a community around literature.

Gumaro Gomarez (Charly Valentino), nicknamed “El Chile” because of his dashing good looks, is envied by men and coveted by women. A group of jealous rivals set a trap for him, and he falls right into it; but after a few more twists and turns, he manages to escape unscathed.

Mexican action movie about a demonic gun.

Homeless singer-songwriter-piano-player gets a career boost with the support of a crippled waitress, and romance blossoms. Once he starts up the ladder of success, she starts feeling insecure about all the beautiful non-deformed women he's surrounded with.

A film of two lovers.

Explores the history of kraft paper in Mexico, a material crucial to the country’s modernization. Once used to wrap cement for state-sponsored construction projects, this resilient paper now survives only in fragments—trees, objects, and the memories of the workers who produced it. Through interviews and nostalgic imagery, the story reflects on Mexico’s industrial past and the faded infrastructure that shaped its modernity.

An open invitation to look at the sky.

Ramón grew up in the shadow of his father's expectation. Now being a father and accompanied by his son, he returns to the places that determined his way of being, to confront the relationship he had with his late father and heal the relationship with his son.

Mexican comic Carlos Ballarta mocks himself and points out the absurdities of parenthood and how he uses his wife's pregnancies to avoid commitments.

Mexican feature film

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.

On the first day of Lilia's new life she is tormented by a figure from the past.

Budo Sento Championship 17 took place Friday, September 23, 2023 at the Juan de la Barrera Olympic Gymnasium in Mexico City, Mexico.

The tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru. A unique poetic reality. The eternal dance of life and death as experienced by magical creatures of porcelain - animals, birds, insects and flowers – fragile and resilient at the same time.

A ghost falls in love with the daughter of the owner of an old mansion, but her fiancé will fight to make sure the ghost leaves them alone.

A hitman and a prostitute (without knowning each other's lives) fall in love, even if their fates is to be separated.

“The Way We Dream” is the third Anthology Film of the “Letterboxd Independent Filmmakers” Discord Server, for which eleven cinematic artists from around the globe came together to create Short Film Works centered upon the primary notion of “Dreams”.

A man is disowned by his brothers because he happens to be a lovechild. The brothers tend to get more violent until they assault his mother and kill his father. So he enacts revenge on his two brothers.

Valentin is a shy and reserved guy, everyone things he is a loser with the girls, but now, he is preparing himself for a date.

Mexican feature film

The story of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Two small-town hustlers are mistaken for government officials.

Two drug dealers are arrested by a police officer who runs into them at a spa. A year later, one dealer's girlfriend returns to the place to try to find a hidden stash of money.