Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

In the midst of the social unrest caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Calpan, Puebla, there is a small corner where hope is harvested daily: the people's asylum.

A love story between two Catholic seminarians who discover their love amid the Cristero War. The day-to-day life in the seminary, the coexistence, and their routines of study and prayer bring them closer physically and emotionally, the secret relationship between Jacinto and Mateo is discovered by Cardinal Bonifacio, which triggers a great conflict of faith that is overshadowed by the outbreak of the war. After the seizure of the Seminary by Calles' Federal Army, the students and priests are shot for defending their faith, their ideals, and their love before the world with the cry of ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

The lives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the astronomer Carlos de Singüenza y Góngora intersect with those of a mysterious monk through a series of monologues and soliloquies in an internal struggle between their passions and clerical dogma.

A house maid prepares a potion that switches her boss and his son's bodies.

Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can see him - and life, for them both, is never quite the same again. Contains three shorts as a trilogy: The Two Way Mirror (El espejo de dos lunas) 1990, 0:29:23 With You from a Distance (Contigo en la distancia) 1991, 0:27:38 Saturday Night Thief (Ladrón de sábado) 1996, 0:24:57

Card-shark risks getting caught cheating. Safe in his home town, he may turn over a new leaf... but his previous victims are still looking for him.

A renowned journalist faces a crisis when he fails to protect his new home from a potential intruder, shattering his sense of masculinity. Struggling with shame and desperate to reclaim his manhood, his efforts to rectify the situation threaten to undermine the happiness of his recent move with his girlfriend and strain his relationship with his son.

A boy waits in the car for his mother. An alien invasion that threatens to destroy everything.

"El Grillo" trains with his best friend "Espinas" and other young boxers. The dynamic of the gym is altered when "El Grillo" brings his little newborn baby, alias "La Chapulina".

From millions of photos, posters, videos, t-shirts, postcards, records, books, phrases, testimonies, Che watches over us. Beyond all paraphernalia, he returns. Irreverent, mocking, stubborn - morally stubborn - Che will always be the subject of debate. The exclusive teleSUR series “Ernesto Guevara, also known as 'Che'”, aims to address the figure of Ernesto Guevara as it has never been told before. Conversing with the characters who were with him in important moments, visiting the real settings where Che spent his life.

A young man is going through a deep dilemma between killing his brother to keep his father's inheritance or leaving him alive, so he decides to meet a lawyer in a cafe to ask him for advice. The story is intertwined with an event in his family past, because when the boy decides to act, he is surprised by the consequences of an infidelity that occurred 25 years ago.

During a carnival, near the border between Argentina and Bolivia, a young Malambo dancer prepares for the most important competition of his life. When his ex-felon father returns, he jeopardizes everything by dragging his son into the criminal world.

A 1938 film.

A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions. The story of a stubborn journalist who undertakes the clarification and bringing to justice of the heinous murder of one student forty years later represents a dedicated effort to force a country from denial to reconciliation and closure of tragic social and political events in a country´s history. A nation cannot allow official cover-ups that seek to delete and erase from the collective memory events that prevent a nation´s march towards social justice.

Fernando Almada is 'El Griego' a world famous ventriloquist now on the brink of madness. Because he can no longer find an audience for his show, his strange personality makes him abuse the puppets he works with. But they seem to have a life of their own. Now Fernando is swep into a world of terror as the puppets seek their revenge!

In the world there are thousands of mysteries still unsolved, the problem is when these mysteries become our greatest fears of our life. These stories awaken our worst nightmares.

Two men suspect a president and put him a trap to expose him to everyone in the town. Little do they know that more truths will unravel.

Mexican feature film

Winter. Two mothers wait for their children, involved in a social conflict, to return home. Crying is useless.

Five young women visiting relatives in Acapulco are targetted by white-slave kidnappers.

Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless man. And then...

Melodrama about a girl brought up by a stepmother.

Aurelia, a young woman, witnesses the murder of her mother after a betrayal linked to a smuggling operation. Marked by the tragedy, she grows up determined to uncover the truth behind the order that led to her mother’s death. Strong and fearless like her grandmother Camelia, Aurelia enters the dangerous world of crime. She begins working for Romeo, a man who hires assassins to eliminate corrupt officials and members of the mafia. Moving through a world of smuggling, betrayal, and violence, Aurelia never loses sight of her true objective: to find the person responsible for ordering her mother’s murder and make them pay.

Elisa is treated and poisoned by her envious cousin Irene. Elisa leaves the notice denouncing her murder hidden in a picture frame. Irene marries the widower. Barbara arrives in Caracas with her nanny and enters to serve in the house of Don Luis, who dies. Pablo, the son of the deceased, falls in love with Barbara and ends up, after multiple inconveniences and oppositions, marrying her.

The story of a young woman falling for an older man.

Members of a satanic cult kidnap women who are then held captive until the next satanic ritual.

Mexican movie

Suave jewelry-thieves caper comedy overlaid with howling family-melodrama coincidences.

Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...

To understand the way they are feeling and why, Eva and Den converse about their ended relationship by going through the most important memories that were shared in the past. Through this remembrance, the memories’ capacity to be complete begins to be questioned as well as the love that was shared in the past.

Mexican feature film

Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at stake.

Musician Rosendo Nevárez learns of his brother Gabriel’s death in a remote spot in the Durango mountains and decides to return to his boyhood home to learn more about his brother’s untimely end. Gabriel, who was more widely known as the “Mountain Hawk,” led an outlaw’s life which was either that of a lowly criminal or daring do-gooder, as accounts of the man’s life vary depending on the point of view of the interviewee. As Rosendo digs deeper for the truth, it becomes apparent that Gabriel was a heroic figure worthy of the song his brother plans to write in his commemoration—if only Rosendo can overcome his growing envy for his brother’s immortal status as a swashbuckling rebel.

Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people. The movie narrates the dramatic relationship between a mother, her illegitimate child and the puritanical society around them.

A mystical sci-fi based on Saint Teresa de Avila's writings. Inside a ghostly mausoleum, these nuns are being affected by a black hole.

A rancher disguises himself as a generous bandit and murders a tax collector, but is discovered.

Ana’s life changes radically; a divorce in her forties. Everyday it will be harder to continue pretending that all is fine in front of her family.

Cain, a 19-year-old misunderstood by his father and resentful of their fractured relationship, chooses to ignore him once again. His night is filled with unfortunate events as a strange figure haunts him.

"Moon Rain" - Sometimes, when the moon is favourable and a mother is driven by a deep desire, she can pronounce the words given to enable the soul of her daughter out of limbo and ronde on Earth, as when she was alive. The spell is immediate and, in seconds, there is magic. The girl who has revived can fulfill her greatest wish and then return pleased the world of the dead and finish with the pain of thebroken dreams that left her death.

The story of Monteforte Toledo - the film's Doctor Zamora - who comes to San Pedro La Laguna (Guatemala) as a young man during the military dictatorship in the first decades of the 20th century. Zamora sets out with great idealism and dedication to eradicate illness among the Indians, even if his work is disapproved by the military commander in town. Zamora falls in love with María, a young Indian girl from a village, and he invites her to come live with him in the town of San Pedro. However, other young women have noted the charm of the elegant of Zamora, and even the young idealist doctor cannot escape the conflict between Ladinos (Mestizos or non-Indians) and Indians.

Chanoc fights alongside Santo's son against the Killer Vampires.

Alma returns to Mexico seeking the man who caused the loss of her childhood home. He is not easily found, but the road to him brings her closer to her late father, and the secrets he took with him to his grave.

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.

After a long exile, Gabriela returns to her family’s land to care for her ailing father and make peace with her painful past. Upon her return, she is faced with Diego, the reason why she left, and the new owner of the land.

Three young drug addicts are admitted into rehab, oblivious to the fact that the clinic is actually the hideout of a gang of drug dealers.

Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which they don't even start doing until the sequel).

The Albarrán brothers rise up the ranks of a criminal organization while a Federal Police commander hunts them down.

We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.

Femicide is a growing phenomenon in Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been brutally murdered in Ciudad Juarez.

Andrés is having a hard time at school and he is provoked past boiling point.