Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

To take revenge on the people who killed his cousin, a man needs to free a convict from prison.

In small town Mexico, her family killed by a crime boss, a young woman escapes with her life to grow up on the streets. Rising to become the leader of a powerful border cartel, she must fight to maintain her role and exact her revenge.

Mexican singer responds to ham radio operators' invitation to come to Peru and perform a benefit for a children's hospital.

A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.

Teotihuacán is not just an archaeological site. It is a heart that beats beneath every step, a memory that spans generations. Here, where the sun and moon face each other in silence, every corner echoes with what we were and what we continue to be. Teotihuacán is a wound, an altar, a seed. And it is also the future. From this place full of symbols, EL JUEGO (The Game) is born, a short film that transforms the everyday into a sacred act. It's not just about soccer. It's about the dust, the sweat, the vital energy that springs forth when the body surrenders and the soul remembers.

Bruno, a misunderstood teenager, has developed an obsession with burning objects, recording them, and uploading videos to the internet to deal with his father’s death. When his lonely mother starts dating another man, Bruno escapes from home. He goes to another town to live with Daniela, a young pyromaniac he met online and with whom he has an epistolary relationship. During the painful separation from his mother and his best friend Ian, he begins to question his sexuality and capacity to overcome his father’s loss.

Mexican feature film

Mónica, the manager and wife of singer Álex, plans a publicity stunt that goes awry. When her husband shoots a rival singer with a gun supposedly filled with blanks, the singer is killed with live ammo. Álex and Mónica then goes into hiding while trying to find out who set them up.

Paloma and Amaru have an almost perfect relationship – until Søren appears and turns everything upside down.

A humble restaurant owner and a farm worker seek revenge on the people that hurt their families.

Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.

The first solo feature of super-powered, "flying", telepathic luchador Superzan, in which he saves the world from three midget aliens in silver suits.

El Garrincha is a thief who wants to conquer Magaly, a woman capable of awakening the darkest desires of a man, but her father has other plans for her.

In a small town in China, young Yijie sells fruit around the city in a modest food bike. Stationed on a street, he witnesses how Yong, a boy his age, steals the purse of one of his customers. Both meet streets ahead. Despite not knowing each other, they decide to spend the afternoon together and share their dreams and intimacies.

Timid smalltown schoolteacher has a look-alike who leads a gang of bandits; when that gang invades the teacher's town, it gives rise to all manner of confusions and complications.

El Piporro, desperate to earn more money, decides to fight and put his skills to the test in the rodeo using a nickname.

A demonic dagger passed throughout a small village starts to disrupt the lives of those it comes into contact with.

Mexican comedy from 1990 written and directed by Víctor Manuel Castro.

Behind the dark, sensuous and almost hallucinatory images, a grim story is smouldering about a school teacher and social activist, who after a questionable trial was convicted for killing four police officers in a Mexican province.

In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.

A saloon singer is released from prison after being convicted on a prostitution charge. She plans to blackmail the judge from her case by seducing him, but after she grows close to the judge she has a change of heart.

Mexican feature film

A guy threatens suicide when the woman he loves gets engaged to another man, then he enters into an arrangement with her whereby she will nurse him back to mental health during the six months until her fiancé comes back from Europe

After being hit by her husband and discovered by her friend, a woman decides to leave for good, hoping no one will uncover her secret.

Two women meet, wander and experience together a city that unveils different places and a connection beyond them.

The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.

Mexican feature film

An angel who is three good deeds short of earning his wings chooses the city of Puebla to carry out her mission.

The film, which is an ode to Rafael Hernández's song "Lamento borincano", is a social commentary of the political and social policies of the 40's and 50's which led to the abandonment of what was seen by many as the "pure", "virtuous" life of the finca (farm) for the "corrupting" influence of urban centers like San Juan and New York City.

Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.

A family vacation is bogged down by unrelenting rain, as a teenage girl and her divorced father try to find common ground.

German is a successful advertising exec who is about to marry beautiful ex-model, Jacqueline. However, Jacqueline can't stand German's best friend, Alex - a college football coach - on account of his gross behavior and adolescent attitudes towards women. But an atmospheric disturbance switches bodies on Alex and Jacqueline. Now, together with German, Alex and Jacqueline have to find a way to return to their original bodies before time runs out and they're trapped in that switch forever.

Carmen, a woman in her twenties, records videos every day for her deceased mother. As a way of processing her absence, she captures what remains of their relationship in the echoes of daily life. One day, a new neighbor moves in next door — Carita, a 10-year-old girl, along with her mother, Amalia, who has begun to show signs of memory loss. Carita also records videos every day, but hers are for a father she has never met. From the very beginning, Carmen and Carita spy on each other through their cameras, building a silent bond. One night, Carita discovers a hole in the closet of her room. When she crawls through it, she finds herself inside Carmen’s apartment.

The story of beautiful young models, who have no family and, through deception, are prostituted to take them to Japan and sell them to the highest bidder.

A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.

A Literature professor arrives at a provincial hotel, lonely and consumed. All of the sudden he becomes wrapped up in a game of superstitions that the two women and the young girl that serve him lay out.

The alcoholic Zapote discovers that his sister has to work at a cabaret to support him; when he tries to fix the situation, the police shut down the illegal business, and he ends up resorting to theft alongside his buddy 'El Flaco'.

Little boy learns of his stepmother's infidelity and later witnesses a murder... but the shocks have thrown him into a hysterical paralysis, and it's almost impossible for him to communicate anything to anybody.

The story concerns a young woman named Elena who ascends from rags to riches when she inherits a substantial fortune; having no one else with whom she can share the monies, she invites her best friend, Clara, to move into her home and enjoy the wealth with her. All fares well until Elena falls in love with a male suitor - and thus threatens to jeopardize Clara's place in the household and her share of the spoils. Indignant, Clara vows to do everything in her power to prevent this new romance from blossoming.

Viola, a woman with a statuesque body, has worked in a brothel since she was very young, where to earn a living, she charges clients for drinking with her. One fine day a good man comes into her life who will make her change her mind about the opposite sex.

Comic duo are stalked by a serial killer.

Capulina reaches Mexico City and sweating buckets trying to work with his uncle, the billionaire strict resting all day surrounded by a bunch of beautiful women.

Documentary about the triumph of the Mexican National Team at the Olympic Games in London. Discover tales, stories and hear the different perspective of the Mexican team players. Have fun with this recognition of the 18 players who participated in the Olympic Games.

A mother and her son look for the possibly dead body of a relative while everyone else seems more interested in a soccer tournament.

An elderly man returns to his native town with the hope of finding his childhood love.

A wrestler, a madman with a super-powered metal glove and a female psychic with a furry sidekick all clash.

No te engañes corazón (released in English as Don't Fool Yourself Dear) is the first full-feature film of Cantinflas after becoming a star of the carpa circuit (folk theater). It was also one of the earliest films of Sara García and Carlos Orellana and the first where they share the screen. Don Boni (Orellana) is diagnosed with a deadly disease and decides to spend his last days doing good deeds. He leaves his wife and decides to help people. He then gets drunk and wakes up with a winning lottery ticket and realizes that the doctor who diagnosed him has been sent to prison for fraud.

Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.

Paramedico is an observational documentary following emergency ambulance workers in four diverse locations Mexico, Pakistan, Venice and Hawaii. The camp, military style of Pakistans rescue teams, with their marching and theatrical disaster exercises are a world away from the relaxed beachside work of the Hawaiians who stop for ice-cream at every turn. On the other side of the globe, above the romantic canals of Venice, ambulance doctors and nurses watch a generation of old Venetians quietly die as tourists pass below. Meanwhile, Mexican paramedics put their mind off the terror of the countrys drug war with their on-station games and madcap antics.

In the context of a visit by the President of the United States to Mexico, there is a threat that China will attack his life. Policeman Filiberto is commissioned to avoid it, at any cost. His searches in the Chinatown will lead him to endanger his life, while he will find love in the young Marta.

An astronaut sends her young son a video message from outer space. In Mexico, a stripper dances night after night to keep a roof over her child’s head. In Canada, a woman becomes a mother for the first time after enduring seven miscarriages. Finnish filmmaker Joonas Berghäll has travelled to South African settlements, Nepalese terraced fields and Russia’s metropolis Moscow to investigate an unshakable and almost magical connection: the bond between mother and child. MOTHER‘S WISH portrays 10 women from the most varied of cultural and social backgrounds who all tell of the beauty and difficulty of being a mother. These are not only stories of love and pride – but also of disappointed hopes and the most precarious of life circumstances. Above all else, however, the protagonists tell of their determination – regardless of their current living conditions – to fight for a better future.

Between 1952 and 1953, the young doctor Ernesto Guevara de la Serna traveled through Latin America. This film is based on his diaries, the correspondence with his family and friends, and the testimonies of those who knew him and accompanied him on this journey. That trip through the open veins of Latin America led him to become the Che.