Hoze Meléndez

A young photojournalist in the city of Veracruz, Mexico, will risk his life to dig up a shocking truth after picking up the investigation that his journalist friend and mentor left unfinished when getting killed by the organized crime.

"Lluvia" showcases six stories and different characters as they navigate the streets of Mexico City, pursued by intermittent rain. Each one faces a strange, luminous, or absurd event that reveals who they are, if only for a moment.

Ángel, a lonely sexual worker, has become the object of inspiration for Lu, a young, homosexual plastic artist. Her unexpected crush becomes a painful goodbye that teaches Lu that letting go is the purest act of loving.

Ángel, a lonely sexual worker, has become the object of inspiration for Lu, a young, homosexual plastic artist. Her unexpected crush becomes a painful goodbye that teaches Lu that letting go is the purest act of loving.

Ángel, a lonely sexual worker, has become the object of inspiration for Lu, a young, homosexual plastic artist. Her unexpected crush becomes a painful goodbye that teaches Lu that letting go is the purest act of loving.

Diego wishes to take his mother's ashes to the place where they used to spend time together. However, his Tsuru is stolen with the urn inside and Diego will be involved in a path where he will do everything to get it back.

Consuelo is the mother of a disappeared young woman, when she witnesses the clandestine burial of a girl by members of the state police, she decides to unearth the body to give it a better burial in the town's cemetery with the help of her brother Armando.

Arcelia takes care of her lifetime partner Lulu. Julian, a teenager exploring his identity, lives under the watch of his conservative mother. A sudden event will draw an unexpected path between the old couple and Julian.

Memories as photographs: no date, no place, no names.

Leo and his band decide to bring Thomas to play in a wedding. They have no idea how complex it is to spend a day with someone with autism.

Eight friends travel to a cabin in the woods to celebrate their high school graduation.

A spoiled girl is sent to her family's ranch to work during summer vacations.

Verónica, a middle-aged highschool history teacher, leads a non eventful life: she has grownup children, grandchildren and a less than perfect marriage. This dynamic seems to be the only thing she can hold on to, as she battles a terminal illness. As she reluctantly accepts her fate, she meets Eva, an irreverent and misunderstood new student who unknowingly injects some life and enthusiasm back into her and provides her with the tools to deal with her destiny.

In order to save her son's life, Ana embarks on a quest to find a powerful stone from the Zone of Silence in Mexico. Someone finds out the power the stone possesses and believes it is a power worth killing for.

Julio, a young man with few social skills, meets Mara, a girl with whom he shares a weakness for robbing other people's houses.

Chicali is a young street cop who starts killing for the mafia by an unexpected situation. Mario, locked up for killing the Mexican presidential candidate in 1994 comes out of prison after 20 years of lockup and returns to Tijuana to rebuild his life. Jenny is an American homeless who decides to cross the border to Mexico in order to change her condition. Jenny falls in love with young Chicali, who is assigned to kill Mario.

The existence of a lonely figure in Mexico City is slipped uncontrollably throughout bodies every so often, making his essence travel through bodies of men and women. Boredom and hopelessness of this being are faced by the love for Luisa and the need to be with her. He starts a struggle to communicate that love via different faces and bodies until he may be with her in spite of his condition.

An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.

9 Mexican directors come together to narrate traditions and more brutal, ruthless and bizarre legends of our country. Mexico Barbaro shows the world stories that are part of our popular culture, from sweet stories told by our grandmothers, the tooth fairy, witchcraft, the story behind the weeping woman, sexy Devil' servers, a pagan hero, the burnt woman, up to ancestral culinary bloody rites. Traditions and legends that today continue to cause terror among Mexican people. Included shorts: **Paidós Phobos** (Paidos Phobos) **Potzonalli** (Potzonalli) **Bolas De Fuego** (Fireballs) **Exodoncia** (Exodontia) **Vitriol** (Vitriol) **Dirección** **La Leyenda de Juan Soldado** (Juan the Soldier) "No Te Duermas" (Do not sleep) **Ya Es Hora** (It's About time).

After a year of drought, Nicolas prepares for "The Tiger's Fight", a prehispanic ritual where the village men fight to imitate thunder and foster the rain, hope of a good harvest. Inspired by one of the last surviving blood rituals in Mexico, "The Tiger's Fight" tells the story of Nicolas, a young man who wants to preserve the ritual, even when his love defies the traditions of his people.

Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.

An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where apparently nothing ever happens.

Three teens, one city and endless partying. Joel, Olga and Tavo are searching for their place in the world caught between love, loss and teenage angst. One night when they decide to break into an empty house, destiny will take over and decide their real place in the world, if it can accommodate them.

Rodolfo and Beatriz are the parents of teenagers Jessica and Juan. Together they form a perfect dysfunctional family. Rodolfo leaves for work every morning, but actually he’s unemployed. Beatriz, worrying that she is looking older, has a flirtation with her buff gym trainer. Jessica finds herself in a love triangle with her boyfriend and her best friend. And, Juan’s girlfriend has a little surprise for him. This is the life of an ordinary middle-class family in Tijuana. While living under the same roof, they scurry about their days, trying to hide their secrets from one another. A fresh, clever and humorous portrait of a modern family unit.

A young man from rural Mexico with secret aspirations of being a drag performer is forced to choose between his parents and his dreams.