Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Cuba, 1967. Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara have a conversation... one last time.

Mexican feature film

An experimental film that equates cinema with telepathic processes.

Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...

Kitty is attacked and raped before the eyes of 38 witnesses but no one does anything to defend her. The event is on the news the following day and Gabriel, a journalist, becomes obsessed with the case and decides to confront all witnesses, opening his own investigation, reconstructing the events and introducing him into the life of the casualty.

Sebastián is an artist searching for fame, after an incident he realizes that by painting hurting people he can have everything he desires.

At a party Luis and Jesús decide to try a hallucinogenic drug. This leads them to face their deepest memories, fears and desires.

It tells the story of the famous rock band “Los Panchitos” as they enjoy music, drugs, fights, and rock ‘n’ roll on the streets of Mexico City in the 1970s and 1980s.

With less than 20 hours before an asteroid destroys Earth, Zoé is ready to end her life early, until Paco, a stranger with a birthday cake and nowhere else to be, stops her. Together the two strangers spend their last day together.

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

Mexican feature film

Weaselly bad guy wants to get in good with a woman he's hot for, so he frames the hero for a murder and then organizes a lynch mob against him... all to further her plans.

"El Emblema", a retired wrestler completely unwilling to let go his profession, steps into the ring one last time to confront his own reality and frustration.

A monster hunter confronts the evil vampire Vanaccek.

A Mexican film about Nostradamus, the 16th century French astrologer, physician and reputed seer .

Whether it's Rudolph's nose cancer or heated tree-decorating fights, he tackles Christmas with edgy, biting humor.

In an isolated matriarchal community, facing the brutal coming of age rituals women must go through to ensure their survival, Lina develops a forbidden relationship with a man and burns the status quo to the ground, lightning the path for a new way of life.

Third entry in The Valencia Saga. A sitter got hired to take care an overprotected grown teen. While both discussing the up beats of life, their night turns more creepier than just a sitter chat.

This is an account of the years of the dictatorship in Uruguay, told with archive material and interviews with witnesses who remain anonymous. There is a focus on the 1984 elections and the euphoric festivities afterwards, as the people celebrated not so much the winner of the election as the end of the dictatorship and the start of the campaign for truth and justice.

A large part of the town of Juchitepec, State of Mexico, has left its place of origin to seek its fortune in the city. The survivors suffer the sale of their best land for agriculture to a pantheon. Death is a constant in a place where there is barely enough food.

Popstar dies by accident, and Heaven's bureaucrats send her back to earth to inhabit a different body.

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.

Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza is from Santa Maria Quiegolani, an indigenous community located in Oaxaca, Mexico. After she was denied the right of becoming president of her community, just because she was a woman, Eufrosina began a struggle to achieve gender equality in indigenous communities, questioning the uses and traditions and defying the zone’s chiefs.

A wandering girl, immersed in nostalgia, seeks explanations for the ephemeral through an introspective conversation within a scandalous city.

This documentary will take us into the home of Doña Cristi, a 74-year-old woman who has run her grocery store in Ecatepec for more than three decades. We will learn about her life story and the daily difficulties of raising her children, five of them with multiple disabilities, who are her driving force to get up every morning and face all adversity.

Rodrigo is a young app driver, but his true aspirations are to play in a heavy metal band with his friends. However, not all the members of the band accept him in it. This frustrates young Rodrigo, who´ll get to the brink of exploding.

A short film directed by Marlon Lara

Alma has a daughter who has been missing for three years. Ever since she lost her, she has been looking for her tirelessly, putting up wanted posters or supporting brigades and groups of mothers with the same grief, as long as she doesn't have to work at the inn that she runs in Tlatelolco, in Mexico City.

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

Diverse gangs in the city respect each others territory until one of the gangs mother is kidnapped. One of the gangs has crossed the line and now the search is on!

Mexican feature film

This encounter takes place when an indigenous Nahua family from the Sierra Norte of Puebla, in Mexico, welcomes into their home a Sahrawi arab to share their customs and traditions. During this time spent together, one can recognize there's not only cultural similarities but also similar struggles, feelings and efforts to preserve their mother tongue, their culture and their territory.

Tamara is struggling with her lack of inspiration. She'll have to confront her easel and canvas with her brush and paint.

Sara waits at home for her abusive partner Andrés. A night that will test her sanity and the foundations of her relationship awaits her.

On an uninhabited island off the Mexican Pacific coast, members of the army do their uneventful duty. The film watches drills and everyday routines, but mainly the breaks which they spend playing board games in the shade of trees, in hammocks, swimming, flying kites or doing karaoke. The peaceful environment, however, does not hide the violent reality of their country which they are always confronted with, even out here.

A woman applies for a job as a maid, while a difficult situation with her family haunts her.

Héctor returns to his town in the Guatemalan highlands after a difficult migration of many years to the north. That trip has left him wounded. With a possessive mother, a young wife who despises him since her abandonment and a young son who does not know him, Héctor will try to adapt, proposing to live as before, repairing lost time, but he runs into a community that has already discarded him. His violent reaction breaks the fabric of his environment, and he discovers that since he left everything has changed, neither Héctor nor his community will be the same.

When Leonardo meets Aura at school, he also takes his first steps in the weird and unexpected world of love.

Prisoners, two sisters share their life in a strange place. The mundane routine, along curiosity, will bring Prita to break the boundaries of the secure place.

A story of teenage love set against the backdrop of the 60's, filmed on the picturesque tropical beaches of Puerto Rico. A classic Latino love story, asking the timeless question -- whether it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

Adam Neumann is a member of a Jewish family living in Berlin. His grandfather, who has Alzheimer, is the head of this family and he had to leave the business because of his condition. The old man says that Adam is the reincarnation of a messiah and this unwelcome ideas start to bother the family. Adam becomes increasingly paranoid and gradually embarks on a spiritual quest, questioning his own reality. By accident or perhaps by chance, he reaches the beaches of Tulum, encountering the natural beauty of a place that will change his destiny.

LUX 043 was a mixed martial arts event that took place on Friday, June 28, 2024 the Marcelino Gonzalez Gymnasium in Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico.

Ale left her mother's house at the age of 12 because she felt she did not belong then, now at the age of 20 she lives in constant resilience. Realizing that she is repeating her mother's patterns, she embarks on a reflection of the decision-making power she now has.