Teenage orphan Luca leaves his hometown Chipilo for Mexico City, seeking fortune. There, he meets 24 year old trapeze artist Paulina, who teaches him love and life in the circus.
Don Gabino
A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.
Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .
The bodies of two young men are found in a small town in Northern Mexico, along with a AR15 weapon, which as we will follow back in time will see where it came from, the USA.
When his father passes away, Juan Pablo inherits his guitar. Decided to continue his father's legacy, he abandons his career and becomes a mariachi.
Papá
Julio, a young man with few social skills, meets Mara, a girl with whom he shares a weakness for robbing other people's houses.
At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential.
Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.
A group of ambitious new filmmakers wants to sell a broadcaster a television program involving ghosts and paranormal events. They have lots of special effects, but special effects aren't necesary when something from beyond is lurking.
Mayor
Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy. Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by the secret police six months ago. Armed with a gun, which he doesn't know how to use, and helped by his two friends as allies, Mitch will face the most bloodthirsty General and force him to release the love of his life.
After many years, Julian returns to the house where he grew up. He finds a closet that takes him back into the one of his most painful memories, one caused by his father.
Bishop Pascual Diaz
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
Chema
The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.
Nacho
In Juarez, border town between Mexico and the United States, hundreds of women disappear and are brutally murdered. In this city, where impunity and violence rule, a desperate mother seeks her daughter who has vanished without a trace.
Lucio
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.
Rolando
Enrique y Rolando son dos pránganas que trabajan montando equipos sonideros para los toquines de barriada a los que ellos mismos asisten. Soco, novia de Enrique, al parecer está embarazada. Luisa, madre de Rolando, es una lenona de buen corazón que da chamba a meretrices en desgracia, como Lola. Un psiquiatra se dedica a contratar los servicios de esas desvalidas pirujillas y a traficar con tachas. Uno de sus pacientes, Ramiro, es un esquizofrénico violento y padrotón que se convierte en su dealer.
Julian
Futuristic movie about Alejandro, a gifted left-handed child marble player who must win a competition as the entire town's hopes - and money - rest on him.
A tragicomic short film imbued with magical realism that revolves around the theme of death, focusing specifically on the Mexican people's bond with the departed.
Juanito is an eight year old boy who can predict the future, therefore the whole town is scared of him.
A retired man that used to work for the National Electricity Company fight with his sons who want to get his money.
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
Benito
Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings of Christianity to California's native population while convincing the Spanish military to respect the Indians' traditions.
A retired union leader runs a restaurant by the highway with the help of his wife and his young son. One day a wounded criminal, his lover and his brother, all fugitives from law and being pursued by the woman's husband, forcefully seek out a hiding place. They take the family hostage until the delinquents are confronted.
Story
A priest recruits some secular friends of his to help him break the stranglehold a political boss has over their town's economy.
Screenplay
A priest recruits some secular friends of his to help him break the stranglehold a political boss has over their town's economy.
In this film festival favourite, every day is magical in the tiny
logging town of San Miguel de Cruces, Mexico, thanks to director
Juan Antonio de la Riva, who captures the rhythms of small-town
life through the stories of its inhabitants. From a young couple
facing separation as the husband prepares to seek work in the
United States to a pair of teens on the cusp of adulthood to the local
movie theatre operator struggling to stay open after the introduction
of satellite dishes, Pueblo de madera portrays a town—and a
people—in transition.
Genaro
Two sisters working hard to support their alcoholic father. The youngest sister "Obdulia" mutilates her hand in a work-related accident and her father tries to take advantage of the situation by demanding money from the workplace. Obdulia recovers from her accident and tensions arise with her family & boyfriend.
Jorge Torres
Street-punk drafted to soccer team, rises to stardom. Cuz he plays so good.
Guillermo
Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.