Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, TX, from Piedras Negras, MX, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life.

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

Susana, a 10-year-old girl, lives with her father in a cabin located in the mountains of Veracruz, in the middle of a threatening tranquility. When Susanna finds and falls into an old well, she will discover a dark and heartbreaking secret about her family. She will no longer be the same.

Nerdy college boy gets romantic advice from the apparition of a dead film star.

Tragedy strikes a group of immigrants crossing the border between Arizona and Mexico.

This waltz is a set of circular and fragmented compositions, in which a rhythmic and haunted dance hides an eroded lunar landscape. The microscopic rubble of our contemporary civilization. Part of the Lunar Films series.

A series of scenes shot in different countries around the world, which explore the relationship between people and smoking, under various situations and emotions, which rise up certain questions about the reasons that motivates them to smoke in these moments of their lives.

Trying to get over a nasty divorce, a young woman meets the man of her dreams, but quickly learns that he could possibly be her worst nightmare.

Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".

Young woman disguised as a man sets out to kill two brothers that she believes cheated her father out of his property. She discovers they were innocent of that, and takes a job on their farm, provoking some gender-fluid wooing confusion from both of them.

Marina and Joaquín are two strangers who meet on the outskirts of an engagement party and discover that they have one thing in common: they are having a horrible time and they want to escape. Marina has had intimate photographs shown in the middle of the event, and Joaquín has loose ends with the hosts. Together they must find the best way to get ahead: go for tacos.

It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.

Virginia, an elderly writer, starts to pen her autobiography, when her character suddenly refuses to play her role in the story. She insists that she wants to tell the truth.

Three objects are used in a manner in which they weren't supposed to be. Something unprecedented happens: armed with a voice and conscience, these objects will reflect on the absurd arguments that support domestic violence.

Lucas is a 12-year-old boy who falls in a strange whirlpool in the garbage vortex floating on the Pacific Ocean. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a peculiar world: Thingdom, the place where all things no longer useful go

After the last breath of her elderly husband, Maria experiences a brief suicide attempt that will take her into a journey throughout all her memories alongside him with the purpose of finding a true meaning to life, beyond marriage.

Pancho is a young man who lives with his father picking up garbage. He wants to escape poverty and the yoke of his father; all he has to achieve it are his fists.

Mexican feature film

The delegates of an international conference must decide on a "United Song", capturing the traditions and cultural characteristics of the participating countries. An unprecedented art showcase.

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

Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble

Alex, a non-binary person, becomes pregnant and seeks an abortion with support from their aunt Salome, a traditional doctor.

Drifting from her reality on the streets of Mexico City, a woman's chaotic thoughts spill into verse in short film Weird - directed by Flavio Morales and Nicolas Corvino. Overwhelmed by the routines and structures that direct her day-to-day, she questions the nature of love, life, death and existence itself, undergoing a metamorphosis as an uncanny feeling takes hold. Playing with visual effects makeup to evoke the image of a fish, Morales and Corvino enlisted makeup artist Feña Acuña to center their protagonist's dissociation, exploring the depths of her mind as she becomes immersed in thought.

"The House on Fire" - A fortuitous incident unites the destinies of three women in a series of amused situations. While they try to conserve their means of life and accomplish their dreams within the nightclub where they work, they must deceive a pair of thieves from whom they have robbed a very dangerous package. How far could they go in order to see their dreams come true?

Pictures taken between France and Mexico running at 8 frames per second.

In a humble coastal tropical compound, amidst a total eclipse of the sun, an unexpected guest arouses the broken dreams of a family that has lost its guardian figure, overshadowed by the cosmic loneliness where they were left to their faith.

His limitless imagination and effortless transformations add up to a night of unpredictable character-driven comedy.

A famous television showman is suffering a mental and spiritual crisis. But fortunately three friends who once have all been lovers of his try to help him...

A unique videogame character, created by a 13 year-old at a life sim, tells his unfortunate life tale from the moment he was created. Full of hatred and resentment, he will seek answers about his world and the evil God who controls it.

A ghostly-looking young woman wanders from place to place, ending up in a bathtub with hooks through her skin. This short film was the trailer for the 2006 edition of the “Festival Macabro”.

Inés, a bitter 40-year-old teacher, wishes she was young during her niece's bachelorette party. There, a stripper genie grants her wish, turning her into a 17-year-old teenager again.

A lonely and bitter French bookseller living in Mexico mourns and is haunted by the death of his lover until he finds a maths journal with a metaphysical formula that may allow him to bring her back while getting involved with the woman who sells him the book.

The Champions go against an army of rats that have turned into humans.

Respected civic leader hired a gunman twenty five years ago to commit a murder for him. Now that guy is blackmailing him, and meanwhile his two daughters are competing over a boyfriend.

An entity watches over the dreams of a young man named José, but something imminent unfolds as the boundaries between dreaming and waking begin to dissolve.

Deep in the jungle a woman flees from her own reflection.

Alfonso Zayas is surrounded by some beautiful women and in hilarious situations.

Mexican feature film

Enigmatic and deceptively playful in tone, this film from Gabino Rodríguez, in collaboration with Nicolás Pereda, boldly transforms mundane, realist observations at a rural Mexican schoolhouse into fantasy and a sly comment on childhood, rituals, and race.

A young hitman is challenged by the city's top hired gun to see if he's worthy to take his place in the world.

After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?

Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables.

11 international directors, 11 short stories and one protagonist: the PENIS. The penis as you have never seen it, feared it, conceived it, dreamed of it... in the first DICKSPLOITATION movie ever!

Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.

An undercover cop and slick con-man form an alliance against a evil and vicious drug lord who takes advantage and uses the poor people of a small village with his equally evil henchmen.

Hugo Stiglitz is a treasure hunter who leads an expedition that includes Roberto Ballesteros, an important scientist, and Edna Bolkan, a beautiful anthropologist, into the jungle. The group arrives at an ancient tomb and after opening it, they take the bones found inside. But the remains in the tomb seem connected to a high priest who was sacrificed. By violating the tomb, the group has unwittingly awoken a diabolical being named Chaneque, who will commit the bloodiest murders in order to retrieve the stolen remains. The key to the plot is a little girl who the beast intends to kill

Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.

In the town of San Antonio in Guerrero, Mexico, lives my mother, Amelia, a 60-year-old woman who leads a quiet life on her ranch, tending to the land and her husband. With the arrival of Holy Week, she is joined by my niece, Rosario, her granddaughter, whom she teaches about religious traditions. Their encounter quietly evokes questions about the role of women in my town. Despite the generational differences, they see themselves reflected in each other and share a deep desire to transform our destinies.

Doctor visiting an under-served island community gets deeply involved with a mysterious priestess-chieftain-exotic dancer. Remake of Zonga, El Angel Diabolico (1957).