Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Three teenage friends spend the day playing and having fun riding a truck loaded with a mysterious package in the trunk, until the scourge of violence reaches them, changing the course of their lives forever.

After going through the stages of courtship and marriage, Amelia and Jorge's apparent perfect love ends in estrangement, boredom, abandonment, and tragedy.

Three young women on vacation find men and trouble when one of the women accidently grabs the wrong suitcase which is full of money.

Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...

An aging Brazilian actor teams up with a film student on a trip to Mexico, in order to find out an unknown movie his mother allegedly watched before she committed suicide.

The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.

A young woman in her prime, interrupted by a moment that changed everything. In the midst of darkness, an unexpected encounter propels her to be reborn and transformed.

The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and Cirque du Soleil creators in the mist of the creation of LUZIA, Cirque du Soleil next big top show. It is a cultural and intimate story of the meeting of creative minds seen through personal interactions and relationship building of the show creators. Filmed in Mexico City, Tijuana, Oaxaca and Montréal, this series features: Daniele Finzi Pasca (Co-author and Director of LUZIA), Patricia Ruel (Direction of Creation), Simon Carpentier (Composer), Eugenio Caballero (Set and Props Designer) as well as Majo Cornejo and Rodrigo de la Mora (Musicians).

Vicky The Devil is an urban Cinderella drag queen in the quest for a prince charming and her own “happy ending”. One night, Vicky gets hit by Concepcion’s car, an ultra conservative retired teacher addicted to casino slot machines. Despite belonging to opposite worlds, Vicky and Concepcion will become close friends. Their friendship will put to the test when Vicky’s dark side shows its head.

Somewhere in the Balkans, Anna explores her power of intuition while road-tripping with her old friend Armando, an amateur video-blogger who tries too hard. When Anna starts to wonder if friendships have an expiry date, she meets Goran, a famous actor facing a personal crisis. Their brief encounter sparks in Goran a mysterious vision, guiding him to meet "H", a silent man who might have the answers he is looking for.

Four characters face off in different real life scenarios, with an unexpected twist.

When his father dies, Tito stars facing problems that will help him find himself.

Lost short film about the death of the last Aztec Emperor.

Judith is a member of the mariachi band "La Estampa de Calimaya" and the only woman in the group. She's also mother of two kids and lives in Toluca.

Mexican feature film

A violent and alcoholic gold prospector lives with his wife near the border. She is convinced that a demon is stalking them, and he thinks his wife is cheating on him. Blinded by jealousy, he decides to seek both his wife’s lover and the demon to strike them down.

A politically-themed stage play provokes a murder. Police detective walks the cast through a reenactment of their performance as a way of investigating the crime.

Isabel and Antonio Condorcanqui, brother and sister who have been separated by Chile’s Dictatorship due to the family relationship they have with José Gabriel Condorcanqui or Tupac Amaru II.

A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.

Biopic: the last year or so in the life of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Governor of Yucatan in the early 1920s.

Luponini, a bank employee, becomes a robber due to a broken heart. His criminal career, successful at first, is soon threatened by the betrayal of one of his accomplices and the contempt of Luisa, his ex-wife.

Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula.

A man chases a rebellious gust of wind across the hills as it creates chaos and music through the grassland.

In a mix-up, Tamara, an axolotl puppet, is forced to recover her mother's necklace from the least expected place.

A lady photographer and her preteen son on vacation at a beautiful Mexican resort, befriend two men whose homosexual relationship is going through some tough times.

A being from another world visits a hermit and changes his life forever.

Horror film by Geuriel Danini about a serial killer in a rural area.

Mad-science/comedy scenario about reviving the corpse of an Egyptian mummy morphs into a love story set in ancient Egypt.

The story of the adventures and entanglements of the son of a famous film producer who is forced to study law.

Second film in the Tigres del ring series.

Felipe and Claudio have a unique relationship. Somehow destiny pulls them apart and sets Felipe on a journey where he will risk everything in his pursuit of happiness.

An alien spaceship crash lands in Mexico. The pilot must survive by drinking the blood of virgins - all while being hunted down by scientists searching for el Chupacabras.

Two provincial spinsters host Luis, a young man who comes to work at the bank, and flirts with Maria, who believes it is the opportunity to get married, but in reality he is an adventurer who at the bank learned that she is the second single more fortune. The first is the daughter of her employer, but she is engaged.

Comedy/drama about railroad workers.

Two old friends meet after years of not seeing each other: Miguel, a prisoner who is about to be killed by a troop of the Mexican Revolution; and Luciano, the General of the troop and the man tasked with commanding Miguel’s execution.

Nina, a gypsy girl, promised to the future leader of her tribe, falls in love with Roberto, a depressed violinist.

Mexican feature film

High school is almost over and four friends are going their separate ways as they go to college. But they have one more chance to spend some time together: Inspection 12, their favorite band, is playing one last concert in Jacksonville, FL.

A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the djina (a devil) but on the way they find an exiled country, that asks for help them to spread there existence and find a way to prevent that the organizations of United Nations and NGOS do not forget them. It is a history full of magic and feeling, wrapped in the colouring landscapes of the great desert of the Sahara. Among the liberated territories there are 10 million mines, temperatures of up to 60 ° c and little food to testify the wealths of a great people there culture, traditions, tragedy and there similarities with the rest of us.

The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.

For years, Olivia has woken up every day wondering how she managed to survive the death of Isaac, her activist son. Currently collaborating with a group of filmmakers to make a documentary about the case, Olivia feels a call to rebellion when she discovers that her testimonies have been altered by artificial intelligence.

In this Romantic-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, Actress Maria Elena Marques plays a hard-living woman named Leticia, who suffers from a recently broken heart after being deceived by her ex-boyfriend. Soured on anything to do with love and while drinking away her sorrows, she sets out to marry the very first man she sees. This man just happens to be a nice guy named Roberto, (Abel Salazar). Although the pair's mutual attraction to each other is obvious, Roberto has no idea what he is in for, and he soon proposes. Not long after the marriage, Leticia starts to take advantage of both Roberto and her new Father-in-Law (played by Oscar Pulido), who shows kindness towards the girl. Predictably, marital bliss soon turns into discord, and the couple agree to divorce after a year passes. Their love-hate relationship and pending break-up provides a perfect backdrop for several comedic situations before the two realize that they are actually in love.

Guie’dani, a Zapotec indigenous girl and her mother take up work with an upper-class family in Mexico City. The girl does not fit and is conflicting. Everything changes when she meets Claudia, a rebellious girl with whom she becomes close friends.

Four independent stories based on writer Francisco Rojas Gonzáles's work, depicting the reality of Mexican indian people: Las Vacas (The Cow), Nuestra Señora (Our Lady), El Tuerto (One-Eyed) and La Potranca (The Filly). In El Tuerto, a one eyed boy is relentlessly bullied by his mates. His religious mother asks God to make the boy's eyes equal. The outcome is tragic.

Carlos defends the people of his town from bandits who want to steal their gold.

A teenager wanders into the jungle towards a virgin lagoon inhabited by an intriguing and sinister creature, a mermaid.

Sonia meets Roberto, a miserable actor with a few days left of life. Both fall in love, but soon after a policeman comes looking after Sonia, but is distracted by a countess during New Years Eve. Sonia and Roberto take this chance to escape.

The independent music scene in Queretaro emerged after the youths’ movements that left a mark in the generation of Avandaro. Among the secrecy of the streets and neighborhoods, rock music made its way despite the conservativism and “good manners” that, it is told, characterizes this city.

As a child, Francisco (Sebastian Ligarde) was violently tortured by his mother. Now a happily married man, everyone in the neighborhood thinks he and his beautiful wife (Lorena Herrera) are the perfect couple. But think again! Francisco is actually living a double life and the dark half is a sadistic and perverse serial killer.

La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara and produced by Contreras Torres in 1933.

Mexican feature film