Martha Claudia Moreno

"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.

Valeria's joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she's cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she's forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.

In 2012, Charly leaves Nicolás minutes before getting married and moves to another country. Heartbroken, he writes to her a letter where predicts an unhappy life of complete solitude. Ten years later, fate brings them together again at the wedding of Rocío, her best friend, and Diego, her brother, where they will face that their love story is not over yet.

Omar and Tere love to dance. They do it every time they can and they do it well. Even so, they both keep a secret for themselves. On the dance floor, she is the one who guides him and not the other way around, as tradition says.

Sofía, who is about to turn 15, doesn't like to party. She has just moved to Las Arboledas after the separation of her parents and spends her days in the boring company of her younger sister. The monotony disappears when she meets Eva, a girl with a rebellious attitude with whom she will discover love and the disappointments that accompanies it, a turbulent journey full of assaults, illusions and rock and roll.

Luis, a young 20 year old man must remain hidden in a house while the presidential elections pass. This is what Andrés, his boyfriend and presidential candidate of a very conservative party, asked him.

Faced with the unexpected death of his estranged father -El Máscara- and the subsequent theft of his precious mask, Rubén -Mascarita- will find himself confronted with his past. Alongside his invincible bodyguard Tony "The Cannibal" and, an unexpected ally, he will have only one day to recover it and make amends with the memory of his father.

When his wife leaves him, Domingo is determined to prove that he is not only a looser that gets fired every other week. Domingo sets out to make his lifelong dream come true. Every Sunday, he goes and spends his time on the sidelines of an improvised soccer field, near his poor outskirt neighbourhood in Guadalajara, to commentate on the neighbourhood matches. While he constantly improves his style and technique, he keeps trying to get a job with the local TV station as his ultimate goal, but he doesn't realize how much his impassioned commentaries are changing the life of his entire community.

Two workers from Video Vega, the last video rental store in the city, discover the identity of a local serial killer.

Ernesto, a Cuban actor who decides to audition in Mexico, is stranded in the gigantic city when he fails to achieve a leading role in an important play. Facing the dilemma of returning defeated to his home, he accidentally meets Belén in the subway, a spontaneous actress who tells stories or lies in exchange for some coins.

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.

A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca to celebrate their grandmother’s wedding.

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.

A man is left at the altar by his bride, so his two cousins decide to bring him to the place they used to go on vacation when they were kids.

Alicia is a workaholic executive who suddenly loses her job and her family. In her process of rebuilding, she associates with a neighbor and helps her in her business. This is how she manages to be the most successful businesswoman in the country. During this process, she tries to reconquer her husband, only to realize that in order to return with him, she will have to learn to balance work and family life.

After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma must spend her nights taking care of Clemente, a hypochondriac compulsively obsessed with avoiding sudden death. Their relationship moves through suspicion, fear and compassion to tenderness and love.

When washed-out, has-been actor Francisco, finds out that his ex-wife is about to remarry and take their daughter to live abroad, he'll manipulate everyone around him to stop the wedding and get his family back.

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

A family is left adrift after the father's departure. Mother and children will have to grow and let go of their fears in order to survive.

Brayan Rodriguez is an innocent heir to a criminal Sinaloa family sent to Mexico City to expand the business, and where he meets Claudia, and their worlds collide. Love and fun are everywhere.

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).

Ana’s life changes radically; a divorce in her forties. Everyday it will be harder to continue pretending that all is fine in front of her family.

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.

Nicolás, a photographer, has suffered epilepsy since childhood and he is forced to take care of himself and sacrifice a lot, though he lives a normal life. On the other hand, Isabel is a woman who, apparently, has her whole life figured out although her mother is ill and she has no choice but to try to save her. Isabel and Nicolás fall in love in spite of themselves, their demons, their ghosts, and their weaknesses. Suddenly engaged in a relationship none of them would have even dared to imagine, they experience the love, passion, insecurity, fear, and allergy to commitment typical in people who are drifting away.

Luisa's life revolves around her job at a gay bar and crushing on its patrons, until she awakes one morning to find a stranger at her door: her 8-year-old niece, Susana.

Fede is an overweight man, who finds it difficult to move around his own house. One day he finds in photography a way to change his life forever.

Miguel and Johnny know each other since childhood. They are dedicated to skate and have fun. To earn easy money and continue skating, they sell their own blood to a clandestine contact in a hospital. The activity becomes business until a large transaction is not as they imagined.

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

Ulises is a friendly, aspiring actor with big dreams, who also has a weight problem and a compulsive eating habit. In a world where image is paramount, Ulises will do whatever it takes to climb out of the infomercial doldrums. His plans are shaken when he runs into Carolina, his childhood sweetheart, who has grown up to become a stunning, successful businesswoman. Determined to win her heart, Ulises decides to lose weight and earn big bucks, with the help of his best friend, El Charal, a carefree, charismatic kid from the wrong side of the tracks, whose big dream is to be on TV. Ulises, El Charal, and Carolina face hilarious situations and some tough lessons in this riotous romantic comedy.

Ivan lives with his mother in the daily routine. Without prior notice, Jacobo, the oldest son who was absent, comes back home; desperate for his own situation he decides to start a short trip with his younger brother, Ivan. All along the journey they will learn to understand each other, they will try to make up for lost time and rebuild their affective bonds.

Pilar loses the one thing in life that mattered to her and, from that moment on time stops. The present begins blending with the past, and the heroine withdraws into a world of her own. An intimate drama about the extreme emotions connected to the loss of someone on whom our lives depend.

Mariana is looking for a job after being fired, but she will learn to value herself as a person.

Tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Recently enrolled in a new high school, the rebellious teen clumsily attempts to hang himself on-stage at the big talent show. Maru is the sole member of the audience to applaud, earning both students a day of detention. After bonding during the course of their punishment, Román and Maru grab daddy's gun, steal a Volkswagen, and hit the road bound for nowhere.

Two stories unfold over the same long, hot day in Acapulco. The first involves Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the emergence of her ex-lover. Her boyfriend must compete with the sexual tension they share. The second concerns Jamie, a worker attempting suicide, until a girl disrupts his plan.

The love secrets of a large family are revealed during a trajinera tour on Xochimilco, culminating in a suicide attempt during a jackpot drawing.

Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it. When the father (Damián Alcázar) loses the money to pay for the musician, mayhem ensues. The film itself is made to look like a videotaping of the wedding, revealing who's responsible for the crime.

A young woman receives a diary as an inheritance from her father, in which he tells her that she must take a trip to Chiapas, a requirement for access to all his possessions.

Martinez, an embittered Chilean in his sixties who has lived in Mexico for the past 40 years and is being forced to retire from his job. As he struggles with life changes, a neighbor suddenly dies and as he sifts through her diary and her things, he begins to live vicariously through her and find new meaning in life.

Aurora has not revealed to her son, a 35 year old man with autism, the reason why she has decided to move him to her best friend's house. The process for him is not easy, since he is used to his sheets, his order and the color of his room.