Discoveries from Mexico World Cinema

Mom and dad make sacrifices for the sake of their adult children. And then more sacrifices. And more.

Patricio’s (Bruno Bichir) wife has asked for a divorce, he can’t see his daughter and he has lost millions of dollars. Talk about a streak of bad luck! His eccentric friend offers him a room in a mansion that houses resident artists. There he meets Natalia (Karla Coronado), a young woman in charge of the mansion’s organic garden, with whom he establishes a relationship. A video installation about nuclear war will help him find his way again.

The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.

Mexican movie

Second MTV Unplugged album of Café Tacvba.

1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.

Adult street urchin passes himself off as rich man's long-lost son.

Directed by Mexican choreographer-director Camila Arroyo, and created in collaboration with designer Sabrina Olivera, “Soldaderas” is a contemporary interpretation of the figure of the Soldadera, known as the women fighters of the Mexican revolution. The choreographic portrait follows a young woman as she dances her way through Mexico City, capturing her twists and turns as well as the different self-fashioning rituals that accompany her. The film is also a moving archive of Olivera’s first collection, created in honor of the Soldaderas, for her upcoming brand Sabrina Ol. The movement in the film plays with the idea of the word soldar, translated in English as to weld. Centering this action, the choreographic language plays with the actions of melting, and rebuilding, braiding and forging as a backbone to how the protagonist moves around the city. As we watch the film, we play dress up with the dancer and sink into our bodies, allowing her movements to travel through us.

Mario wakes up with no memory of his past life. His encounter with Lazare marks the beginning of a spatio-corporeal drift, from the eastern suburbs of Mexico City to the surrounding underground cavities, where bodies and landscapes crack in the same motion.

Mother and son conspire against his sister when she marries against their wishes.

Four sexy dancers from a nightclub are involved in a reckoning for organized crime, for which they have to flee, while hiding in a hospital.

Pablo and Marina wake up in a hotel room and then travel the country together, she accompanies him while he is in the process of writing a traveler's guide. Pablo is a married man with two daughters, while Marina is a college student. During the journey they pass through different points in the relationship, sometimes in full disagreement.

A cursed Texana (cowboy hat) leaves dire consequences to everyone who wears it.

Comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina.

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

Paco is a charismatic taco salesman from Guadalajara whose life feels stuck between routine and the desire for more. On Day of the Dead he met Gabby, an assistant at a Los Angeles fashion brand, and after a chaotic night that ended with his taco stand blowing up, she invites him to try his luck in the United States, where Paco faces cultural barriers and conflicts.

As Federico's wedding day approaches, he waits impatiently for his brother to get to the city, but a series of setbacks could delay his arrival.

A day before her son's wedding, Agustina tries to have the ceremony called off, only to discover that Emilia, the orphan girl betrothed to her son, still has someone ready to come to her defense.

Through still photographs from different eras, excerpts from some of his most accomplished films, interviews, and testimonies, this documentary explores the life and work of Alec Pelepiok, later known as Alex Phillips.

Murder mystery set in a night-club; who killed the star performer?

Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the distance between COVID-19 patients and their family members through letters, that eventually turn into video messages or photographs during the peak of the pandemic giving people hope and certainty. It is also a voyage through the lives of mexican families who faced the most painful pandemic, due to their social, economic and political contexts while being moved by hope and love.

Mexican feature film

A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local political boss. Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.

Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.

In the midst of an unprecedented wildfire crisis encircling a major Latin American city, a dedicated team of forest firefighters unites to combat the flames, grappling with both a climate emergency and social collapse.

Iván and his friends attend a spiritual retreat to bring some peace to their lives, but strange and violent events start taking place.

Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

Shot in a single, 87-minute take, James has just one hour to choose between financial ruin or murder to protect his family.

A rancher fights a personal war against a drug cartel who killed his wife.

Emilio is the soulful tale of a young man who leaves his village in Mexico looking for his kidnapped sister. His journey leads him to Los Angeles, where we see the city through the eyes of a penniless illegal immigrant on a desperate quest.

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?

Set in the 1990s, the story unfolds in a turbulent northern Mexican town where a queer nightclub stands on the brink of disappearing. Within this fragile space, drama and dark comedy intertwine to expose the contradictions of a community dominated by insecure “macho” men. Beneath their homophobic posturing lies a concealed, unspoken homosexuality that quietly shapes their lives. As the club’s survival hangs in the balance, it becomes a bittersweet symbol of both freedom and repression, reflecting the collision of desire, shame, and identity in a society desperate to preserve appearances.

The President of Mexico is in the last period of his term and only counting the days before his retirement. It appears to be a quiet adieu, until an international conflict has him treading murky waters.

Vice cop infiltrates a jazz club to bust a heroin ring.

San Marcos, a town in northwestern Mexico partially submerged under water because of the construction of a nearby dam, is besieged by the violence of armed groups. Nevertheless, four families refuse to leave.

This short film shot in Tepic revives his spirit in a former wrestler who bursts into the public square, unleashing a viral storm. He doesn't ask for land, he doesn't proclaim himself a leader... he just shouts.

Jonás, Leonor and Bernardo work on the last rehearsal before the premiere. The producer gives them the sudden news that the theater will close due to a political march. The premiere is cancelled. Despite everything, the three actors try to perform the play.

A middle aged man absorbed in destructive patterns won't recognize his own life spiraling.

Mexican movie

Uzi is the name of a firearm, but also is the diminutive of Uziel, who used to be a hitman in his youth. Now he lives crushed by guilt. His crisis deepens when he helps in a childbirth: the force of life fascinates him, and he does not understand how he was able to destroy it in the past.

Beauty Bites Beast aims to 'normalize' the idea of women's self-defense - and by extension, kids' self-defense - as a human need and right.

Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.

In 1967, Beulah struck Reynosa. Family survives through images from memory circling the wreck. Rituals of celebration and violence like hurricane, shift between dancing, cyanotypes, blue fire and lost family archive. We have come to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. Thus invent colors that burn the eyelid like 火藥.

Two "macho" friends gather on an old hotel and get ready for a night of hard drinking, drugs and sex. After some drinks in the room, one of the friends offers LSD to the other. On their way out, and just when the acid is hitting, they get stuck on the elevator, and face a psychedelic nightmare.

Feminist videodance in which a living statue does not receive consensual interventions and decides to express herself by painting her body.

A sophisticated device falls into Hermelinda's hands and when the Soviets and Arabs try to retrieve it, an international witchcraft war breaks out.

A young apprentice learns timeless tales from his master.

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.