Estela
On their way back home from a baseball academy’s tryouts, Pedro and Lucio are taken hostage and turned over to a criminal group. The teenage friends are forced to fight each other to death; Pedro defeats Lucio and manages to escape. Pedro receives help and refuge with Lucio’s family and he witnesses the family’s collapse and pain. Pedro is tormented with guilt and fear, he cannot tell his friend’s family the truth.
Mama
Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.
Toña
The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.
중부 멕시코의 황량한 들판에는 밤마다 지하 파이프라인에 구멍을 뚫어 석유를 훔치는 기름 도둑들이 기승이다. 가난한 홀어머니와 단둘이 사는 순진한 고등학생 랄로는 짝사랑 아나에게 용기를 내 여자친구가 돼달라고 말하지만 웃음거리만 된다. 아나는 오토바이를 타고 다니는 룰로 일당과 어울리지만 쉽게 룰로에게 마음을 주지도 않는다. 알바를 하는 석유 가게 노인에게 빚을 지고 있고, 아나에게 선물할 스마트폰도 사고 싶은 랄로는 큰돈을 벌 수 있는 일자리를 찾아 룰로가 속한 기름 도둑 일당에 가담한다. 아나에게 스마트폰을 선물한 후의 하룻밤 데이트는 랄로에게는 가장 행복한 순간이었을 것이다. 하지만 어른이 되고픈 소년의 운명은 비극적인 결말로 치닫는다. 트라이베카 영화제 극영화부문 최우수 감독상을 수상한 에드가니토의 이 강렬한 데뷔작은 과장 없이 담담하지만 커다란 충격과 울림을 던지는 범죄 드라마이자 성장영화다. 마치 감독이 예견한 듯 현실에서는 바로 넉 달 전 멕시코 송유관 폭발사고가 일어나 130명이 넘는 주민들의 목숨을 앗아갔다. 캐릭터가 충격에 종속되지 않고 현실을 살게 한, 감독이 취한 태도는 옳아 보인다. 아름다운 것은 사람이요, 잔혹한 것은 운명이며, 비극적인 것은 삶이다.
Soledad, a traditional healer, lives with her grandson Jose in an Indigenous Village. Soledad's daughter, Adela, moved to Mexico City many years ago and now wants Jose to join her, but Soledad believes the boy is better off in the village.
Petra
Iliteracy today seems to be a small problem globally, but it is hell for the individual illiterate that struggles alone in a hyper communicative era.
Mamá
Rocio, a Maya Mam girl, lives in the mountains with her mother, who is pregnant and her granny. Due to an early delivery from her mother, Rocio is stuck with caring for a herd of sheep, the first time she has done it on her own. Playing in the mountains she loses one of the sheep. Looking for it, she will lose the rest of the herd. In the midst of this tragedy, Rocio will have to face her innocence, conquer her fear of fog and learn that freedom entails responsibility. Nature will teach her that you do not have to defeat your fears, you just have to experience them. The Greatest House in the World is a story of children -which we all are- when facing fears, the unknown, the uncertain... the fog.
Rosalía
A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.
In 1824, John McGee, an English adventurer, arrived in the Soconusco area of Chiapas with his young wife. There, they sought to fulfill their dream of prosperity and become the first producers of coffee. Upon reaching Chiapas, they discovered that the state had seceded from the rule of Guatemala, plunging into an interim and anarchic government that lasted for 18 years. During this time, John saw his dream frustrated and was forced to seek refuge at his own farm under the protection of the clergy. The dowry of his daughter Isabel becomes his last chance to make his dream come true, as he negotiates with Geronimo and Julian, sellers of coffee plants and slaves, respectively. In the midst of the beauty and hostility of the jungle, a story of love and betrayal emerges, framing the arrival of coffee to Chiapas.
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
