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- DirectorFernanda ValadezStarsMercedes HernándezDavid IllescasJuan Jesús VarelaA mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
- DirectorNatalia BeristainStarsKarina GidiDaniel Giménez CachoTessa IaRosario Castellanos, a shy university student, becomes a voice for the feminist movement in 1950s Mexico.
- DirectorKenya MarquezStarsJohana Fragoso BlendlEnrique ArreolaMónica Del CarmenAfter getting out of jail where she learned how to take care of the sick, Alma, an albino woman, decides to recover something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma is forced to take care of Clemente (a hypochondriac with an OCD to avoid a sudden death) at night. The relationship between them will transit from suspicion and fear to tenderness and love.
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaStarsAdriana BarrazaAlejandro de IcazaFor 35 years Doña Flor has worked as a clerk in a government office. Each day she attends dozens of people who sit across from her and hand her their documents. For 35 years she has been invisible to these people, a mere cog in the machine. She has grown so accustomed to this invisibility that she seems to have become invisible even to herself except for the brief pause at the pool each day where she watches the children swim and remembers her daughter. One morning Doña Flor awakens to find her cat has died in the night. Unable to accept the loss of her sole companion, Doña Flor tries to continue her routine as always, but the loss opens up the much deeper wound left by the downing of her daughter. She decides to swim seeking solace in the water, but finds herself paralyzed by fear. As Doña Flor faces her fear of the water, she faces her of life. One day in the shower room another woman unexpectedly washes her back in a simple gesture of compassion that resuscitates her. "Everything Else" is a poetic and lyrical story about a woman's second coming of age as she reawakens to her self at sixty-three.
- DirectorSofía Gómez-CórdovaStarsLuis VelazquezPaloma DomínguezJuan Carlos HugueninAn old run-down house and an aloof cat are the witnesses to the story that arise between five young adults that live together while they face personal and professional crisis, and general uncertainty about their futures. Despite all their differences, they form, briefly, something like a family, before they all continue with their lives, leaving the cat and the house alone, awaiting for new stories.
- DirectorKatina Medina MoraStarsMora Ferriol AvailsArturo BarbaRosa María BianchiArtistic Nicolás and enigmatic Isabel share a sudden and intense affair while grave issues simmer just beneath the surface for them both.
- DirectorClaudia Sainte-LuceStarsLisa OwenXimena AyalaSonia FrancoMartha, a single mother of four children, lets Claudia move into her home. As Claudia bonds with the family, Martha's health slowly deteriorates.
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsAntonio Lerma BatistaEvaristo Lerma BatistaEvaristo and Luis Antonio - indigenous brothers from the SierraTarahumara in northwest Mexico - have just graduated from boarding elementary school. Evaristo desires to continue his education, leading a bicultural life, where the Tarahumara, or Raramuri as they call themselves, have the opportunity to keep learning to speak, read and write in Spanish, the Mexican official language. Meanwhile Luis Antonio "Tony" is very happy to be done with school. Even though he is a smart kid and has won a grant to move on to high school, he prefers to live life in the ranch, where the kids grow up at a very young age. One morning the brothers are sent to deliver some medicine to a far away community. Tony asks their grandfather for permission to take his horse but the answer is no. Nevertheless, he decides to take it, even if Evaristo is not convinced. They take a wrong path that leads them to a narrow and deep canyon. The horse cannot go on so the boys tie it around a tree. When they come back for it the horse is no longer there. Both, angry and worried, walk in the forest looking for it; Tony thinks the horse was stolen while Evaristo is worried about the assignment. Arguing about this, they suddenly lose each other. Now each on their own continue the journey separately; Tony looks for the horse and ends up at an amusing party, while Evaristo is lonely in the canyons looking for the place to deliver the medicine. The trip becomes longer than expected. They can't go back without the horse.
- DirectorNatalia BeristainStarsMariana GajáAdriana RoelLeonardo OrtizgrisA drama about a young woman forced to take care of her alcoholic grandmother.
- DirectorMitzi Vanessa ArreolaAmir Galván CerveraStarsAdrian LadronAndoni GraciaHernán MendozaZambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the auspices of the authority, because the team is also the 4th Company, a squad of inmates that controls services and privileges in prison, and submits the city to crime, reporting big dividends to men of Power.
- DirectorElisa MillerStarsEdwarda GurrolaFausto AlzatiCamila SodiAt a small hacienda in rural Mexico Rita and Mateo have relocated in a sort of domestic experiment- raising chickens, dissecting poetry from the German Romantic period, indulging in pleasures of the flesh, far from the chaos of urban life.
- DirectorPaula MarkovitchStarsPaula Galinelli HertzogLaura AgorrecaViviana SuranitiCeci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?
- DirectorMariana ChenilloStarsFernando LujánEnrique ArreolaAri BrickmanThis story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora had devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsGabriela CartolAgustina QuinciTeresa SánchezA look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City's most luxurious hotels.
- DirectorPatricia RiggenStarsEugenio DerbezKate del CastilloAdrian AlonsoAfter his grandmother passes away, a young Mexican boy illegally travels across the border to search for his undocumented mother living and working in the U.S.
- DirectorAlejandra Márquez AbellaStarsIlse SalasFlavio MedinaCassandra CiangherottiA well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
- DirectorAlejandra Márquez AbellaStarsAnajosé Aldrete EchevarriaTenoch HuertaEsteban ÁvilaDali and her 8 year old son Pepe take a vacation with Dali's boyfriend, Chavez. Instead of bringing them closer, their beach holiday brings out things in each of them that threaten to pull this emerging family apart.
- DirectorIssa LópezStarsPaola LaraJuan Ramón LópezNery ArredondoA dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.
- DirectorMarisa SistachStarsXimena AyalaNancy GutiérrezArcelia RamírezThe history of friendship of two females teenagers and how it's cracked up by misinformation about sexual education and violence against women.
- DirectorJimena MontemayorStarsJuan Pablo CampaPedro De TaviraCamila SelserCain is banished to the Land of Nod after killing his brother; thus, it became the land of the traitor and of the wanderer. This premise is the starting point for our love story of those who betray; it is a love triangle between Mateo, Nadia and Tomas. It's the story of a friendship, the portrait of a paralyzed generation, the tale of how they live, love and find each other in their loneliness.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsÚrsula PrunedaOfelia MedinaAna Ofelia Murguía"Las Buenas Hierbas". Daughter of a herb healer woman dealing with illness try to found empathy with each other.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsIndira Rubie AndrewinGilberto BarrazaMariano Tun XoolTo escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsLuisa PardoSalomón HernándezJuan J. Reyes AcuasLuisa is 25 years old and fighting a heroin addiction. Having escaped the city she finds herself seeking repose in a fading beach resort that rests on the lush seaside hills of Veracruz, Mexico.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe inhabitants of a small town in El Salvador relive their life experiences during the civil war while remembering their loved ones.
- DirectorLuciana KaplanThe personal journey and social awakening of Eufrosina, a young indigenous woman from Mexico, fighting against gender inequality as well as the seducing offering of political power.
- DirectorLucía GajáTeenage immigrant, Rosa Jimenez, is accused of committing murder in a Texas.
- DirectorLucía GajáIt is the story of five women from different countries who have survived or are trying to survive domestic violence.
- DirectorMaría José CuevasStarsOlga BreeskinLyn MayRossy MendozaAn honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame, and the chance for happiness.
- DirectorMaya GodedThis Documentary shows the life of four third age prostitutes working at one of the most poor neighborhoods of Mexico City.
- DirectorMarcela ArteagaStarsCarlos SpectorWhile the Mexican State covers crimes, Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer in Texas, struggles to obtain political asylum for Mexicans fleeing violence.
- DirectorNuria IbañezChilo and Omar seem to be the last men on earth. They live on a beach and they fish to survive. Their friendship, surrounded by sensuality, becomes a love story. Through their conversations, the film explores the human condition.
- DirectorNuria Ibañez'The Naked Room' shows a whole world without leaving a single space: the examination room in a children's hospital in Mexico City. Listening to children, their parents and the doctors during consultations allows us to have a more profound and complex view of our social reality and of human nature.
- DirectorDiana Garay
- DirectorNatalia BruschteinStarsLaura BonaparteNatalia BruschteinThis documentary is about memory, the memory of a woman that has fought tirelessly against historical amnesia and for the justice of the crimes of state in Argentina.
- DirectorSandra Luz López BarrosoStarsArtemio Gómez ZárateCocco ZárateArtemio was born in the United States. Now he lives in a small town in Guerrero, Mexico, with his mother and his new family. Despite his roots are in Mexico, he still doesn't feel like a part of it.
- DirectorEva VillaseñorWe follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.
- DirectorSumie GarciaStarsYukio SaekiFotoSaeki is a deserted photography goods store in the Santa Maria la Ribera neighborhood in Mexico City. Its owner, Yukio Saeki, arrived to Mexico in 1955. At 83 years old, he can still hear the echo of a hot Monday morning in Japan, as he walked across a field toward the ocean as the atomic bomb fell.
- DirectorOlivia LuengasWhen they discover that something isn't right in her head, Liliana and her family seek to understand her emotional instability and frequent hospitalizations after suicide attempts. Facing a possible relapse and unable to institutionalize her, they resort to treatment at home.
- DirectorDinazar Urbina Mata
- DirectorOtilia Portillo PaduaWe are always told that love lasts forever like in children's fairy tales, but the reality is that people change and relationships expire.
- DirectorOtilia Portillo PaduaStarsEsteban BerronesChris BirchfieldMark ConwayBird watchers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border share their enthusiasm for protecting and preserving some of the world's most beautiful bird species.
- DirectorLuisa RileyAt 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A series of testimonials allow us to get to know the family and social circumstances that influenced Deni 's path; we also discover the ties of love and friendship she found in the safe house, her daily life in the underground and the discipline and aspirations she shared with her fellow guerrillas.
- DirectorMónica Alvarez FrancoThe people of a small community in Veracruz are the guardians of one of the ecosystems facing the most risk in the country: the cloud forest.
- DirectorDalia ReyesBath of life It's a immersive documentary which guides us for an intimate journey to the inner life of a public bath.
- DirectorAlicia CalderónStarsGuadalupe AguilarNatividad GuerreroMargarita LópezIn the Mexican drug war, thousands of mothers search for their missing sons and daughters. A portrait of Mexico today.
- DirectorAlicia CalderónWomen try to heal through art and love the wounds that organized crime's violence has caused to children in Mexico.
- DirectorGabriela Domínguez RuvalcabaAmalia has lost her memory and looks for traces of her past, in old Super-8 and Betamax movies, trying to restore her identity. During the rebuilding process we will begin a journey in search of the roots of memory. The exploration of the locations delimit the monologue that is produced in the character?s mind, it evokes lost moments in the hippocampus while it meditates and interprets the footage film.
- DirectorMaría José Glender de MuchaA man recluded into the mountain is forced to question the role he had as a social being and his decision to become isolated when he faces complete solitude.
- DirectorBetzabé GarcíaStarsIrineo Osuna EncisoMaría Aura Zazueta LampharRamiro Osuna MorenoThree families live in a village partially submerged by water in Northwestern Mexico. Despite their loneliness and fear, they refuse to leave.
- DirectorBetzabé GarcíaStarsEmily AllenMichèle BelgrandMonique Etienne18 year-old Anne explores of body-image self perception and her understanding being a woman today in two different worlds: that of her traditionally "feminine" mother, Céline, at home and the gym where she trains amongst like-minded people.
- DirectorEva VillaseñorMiguel traces his way trying to survive. His reality becomes increasingly labyrinthine until he must eventually face up to his own being. His complex behavior with a repressive society, an invasion of confused ideas make this documentary a piece about the current human complexity in a Mexico dominated by violence.