Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Alan is a writer who wants to write a novel about "The Subway Killer." With the help of his uncle, a police officer, he begins interviewing the accused. The interviews take unexpected turns.

Diana, a 24-year-old woman, spends her pandemic days confined to her apartment. She becomes an observer of the couple living across from her, initially witnessing a loving relationship that starkly contrasts with her own isolation. However, as the lockdown drags on, the couple’s situation begins to unravel, revealing hidden tensions and changing the course of their relationship.

Mexican feature film

A Mexican short film produced in Guadalajara, tells the exploits of the resourceful and colorful José as he tries to prove to a gang of criminals that he can rob a passenger truck without using violence. Despite his great plan and quick wit, nothing will turn out as expected.

Rich is a thirty year-old filmmaker whose career seems to go nowhere. While wasting his days in Tequesquitengo, he falls in love with Daniela, a young woman who shares his place in the world, but not the same feelings. A weekend with her and her young friends will make him question his life so far and his concept of love.

First film adaptation of Maria by Jorge Isaacs, which is currently missing. Made in Mexico

Dogme №39.

Sketch comedy and blackout gags -- format like Laugh-In. Number two in a series.

An old building in Mexico City’s Historical Center is being restored and is filled with rubble and debris. The person responsible for improving the architectonic and general appearance of the building has forced its residents to be evacuated. The stories told by a group of construction workers help the protagonist understand the significance of his decision.

Ten years of war (1910-20), more than one million dead. The struggle for political freedom is gradually transformed into a struggle for land and resources with the appearance of mythical figures such as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. With the roar of the battlefields silenced, today's Mexico emerges from the ruins left by the first great popular revolution of the 20th century.

On the anniversary of her grandmother's death, a young woman continues her daily routine.

Mexico City was built on a lake, yet today it faces water scarcity. This film allows us to reflect on this contradiction. It also travels back in time to the day when a monolith representing Tlaloc, the aquatic deity, was transported to the center of the city.

A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya Beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. It reflects on what the environment and economy could look like if bee health was considered as a criterion of sustainable development. The film explores the pre-colonial and ongoing relationship between Maya people and their environment, in particular the milpa agricultural system (and its main crop, maize), sacred sinkholes (called cenotes), and sacred stingless bees, the Melipona.

After Mariana's tragic death, Daniel embarks on a moving journey from Tijuana to La Paz in search of closure. Through breathtaking landscapes and intimate conversations, he confronts his deepest emotions and discovers that the most difficult journey is within himself.

Eva is in the safest place in the country, according to the coordinates given to her in a revelation, where she builds a bunker. Water shortages, insecurity, and desolation threaten her survival. As she struggles to stay safe, she is confronted with the harsh reality of a devastating world in which hope seems to vanish. In a formal and atmospheric exploration, this documentary aims to reflect on where Mexico is heading as a country.

Three Mexican filmmakers — Max del Río, Gabriela Ivette Sandoval, and Hugo Villaseñor Alcázar — share their processes and challenges around a single question: How can an independent film get seen? Through the eyes of insiders, the documentary reveals the complex journey behind making cinema visible in Mexico.

Amadeo, a humble shoeshiner, helps a mysterious Stranger who grants his wife’s health. Soon, Amadeo discovers that the greatest gift can corrupt his heart and bring consequences he never imagined.

Young teenager Sofia is entering the difficult world of high school. Her perspective of her world changes when she meets the exciting and mysterious Ruth, who changes everything.

Mexican movie

Hired gunman tries and fails to kill The Sheriff. Then the gunman's kid brother coms to town, thinking The Sheriff is to blame for the gunman's death.

Teenager develops an awkward first-time crush on an older boy. Meanwhile, his friend is boffing a woman in the boy's home, and...

The setting is any small urban Latino neighborhood in the U.S. where everyone is only a degree of separation from each other. Where loyalty to family is the utmost importance. The main character known as La Guapa (the beautiful) is forced into becoming a murderer for hire by her ex-husband in order to gain back custody of their 10 year old daughter. With every 'hit' she gets closer to her goal but emotionally moves farther away from her daughter.

Mexico, 1900. Cecilio will have to face the weight of his past and his own decisions.

It is Mexico in 1915. Two sisters remain hidden in their father's hacienda. He has gone to the revolution. The sisters await his return, surviving in the dark. Being found out could mean his death.

In the majestic Tristen Norbutse Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, families leave their children to start teaching the Bön, the oldest Buddhist tradition. Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, a sage of Tibetan origin, is revered and recognized throughout the world as one of the great living masters of this millenary spiritual tradition. Lopon seeks to delve into the reasons for the personal search for spirituality and how this practice is integrated into Western culture.

A large immigration raid in a small Tennessee town leaves emotional fallout as well as far-reaching questions about justice, faith and humanity.

Isaac, a veteran aerospace engineer, has spent his life chasing the stars, and in doing so, has drifted away from everyone he loves. Now, haunted by guilt and recurring visions he can't explain, he faces a choice: hold on to the dream that cost him his family, or find the courage to make peace with the ones he hurt.

When Mireia acknowledges the lack of support from her dad to study art, she will have to decide whether she follows her dad's orders to study medicine, like him, or follow her own desire.

Orbiting through the earth, a set of minerals that move (silver halures intervened), the female bodies acquire various expressions, is allowed to carry the limited of its course, stimulating abstract worlds, where the imagery is reflected in dance and movement.

Life doesn’t always go as planned. After the death of the family patriarch, mother and child go separate ways to find themselves—she crosses the ocean to pursue the singing career she left behind, while filmmaker Gal realizes they are transgender—in this collage of video diaries. "My father dies. Days later, my mother escapes to Turkey to meet her secret Facebook lover. I suggest to my mother that we communicate through video letters. My mother, who gave up singing to raise me, finds freedom for the first time away from home. The video correspondences reveal our attempts to see each other through a shaky emotional journey. Alone, while filming this movie, I realized that I want to transition gender and change my name. An extraordinary journey of self-discovery, a mother and a child who always wanted to be more."

Yolanda has a special relationship with objects, she obtains them, knows them and accumulates them. The protagonist bears witness to the bond she has with the objects she treasures and gives a glimpse of its origin: the loss and love; as we enter her living space, her home.

Beach is a summary of conversations in Super 8 and Super 35mm that narrates, in a experimental way, the 21 year relationship of a couple up to ther separation. A reflection on how we decide to build our own memories, the testimony of a generation that lives creating memories to share and that feels nostalgia for memories they adapt from other generations, even. This short film is imagined as a memory or a dream that anyone could incorporate into their own memory.

A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director delves into the wounds of his own family.

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In a village scarred by the Mexican cartel battles, Mariah--an NGO worker haunted by her own broken marriage to the town's mayor Martin Flores--meets Colin, a young, reckless freelance journalist. As they fall deeply for one another, a desire for vengeance grows inside of Mariah like a newly awakened demon. Now at odds with the noble ideals of her work, she begins on a war path toward what she hopes is justice, but from which no good can come.

At the surreal Vesta Inn Resort, guests are invited to escape reality at a luxury hotel where every attraction represents a stage of grief. From repression pools to guided tours through past heartbreaks, visitors slowly discover that healing at Vesta comes with strange side effects and some emotional damage you may never check out from.

A little man tries to save a bird that fell from its nest. A stop-motion adventure drawn and animated on paper.

Documentary about an immigrant girl from Venezuela and her passion for ballet.

In the drug trafficking business, most of the unimaginable crimes have been committed to ensuring deliveries, they were done regardless of the consequences.

Two fraudulent paranormal activity investigators meet some very sexy devils.

Duality, ephemeral existence, living nature, transient love, spontaneous happiness, hidden sadness, tragicomedy, luminous radiation emanating from our voices, an aura that shines in the darkness.