"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.
Ursula
첫 아이를 임신하게 된 발레리아는 사악한 존재에게 저주를 받는다. 끔찍하고 위험한 세계에 휩쓸리게 된 그녀가 마주친 한 무리의 마녀들은 그녀의 유일한 희망이자 구원으로 떠올랐지만 그렇다고 마냥 안심할 수는 없는데…모성과 욕망, 불안과 악령이 여성의 시선을 통해 기묘하게 결합된다.
Sonia
Perla
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.
Vanessa
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.
Adriela
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.
Doña Mary
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.
Mamá
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.
Rosa
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.
Linda Muñiz
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.
Casera
Julio, a young man with few social skills, meets Mara, a girl with whom he shares a weakness for robbing other people's houses.
카르멘은 남편을 기다리며 위태로운 하루하루를 이어나간다. 아들 다니엘은 환영에 사로잡히고, 큰 딸인 아나는 성인으로 살기를 거부한다. 빼어난 촬영과 시대상을 반영하는 꼼꼼한 프로덕션 디자인이 돋보이는 이 영화는 한 가족의 상실의 아픔과 그 회복의 과정을 담담하게 바라본다.
Secretaria
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.
Diner (segment "Potzonalli")
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.
Ama de Llaves
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.
Casting
각자 내면에 버거운 문제를 간직한 사진작가 니콜라스와 불가사의한 여인 이사벨이 만나 급작스럽고 격렬한 사랑에 빠져든다.
Vecina
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.
Rosaura
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.
Johnny's Mother
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.
Luisa
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.
Maestra
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.
Plañidera
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.
Soraya
Mariana is looking for a job after being fired, but she will learn to value herself as a person.
Helena
순종을 강요하는 사회에 대한 불만으로 가득 찬 두 주인공 로만과 마루. 그러나 감독은 주인공들을 단순한 사회부적응자가 아닌 사랑의 혁명가로 그려낸다. 가출을 가장해 로만의 아버지 맨션 옥상에 몰래 숨어든 두 사람. 그곳에서 그들은 해방감을 만끽하지만 과연 그들의 행복은 어디까지일까?
Mama Yhahaira
페르난다는 자신을 떠난 전 남자친구인 차노가 나타나자 여전히 그를 사랑하는 자신을 발견하고 현재의 남자친구 때문에 갈등한다. 차노는 페르난다에게 자신과 함께 떠나자고 하고 페르난다도 그와 떠날 결심을 하지만 현재 남자친구인 곤잘로가 이 사실을 알게 되고, 괴로워하는 그를 보며 갈등한다. 한편 자살을 결심한 중년 제이미는 자살을 하려고 바닷가로 가는데 바닷가에서 집을 나온 소녀 티그릴로를 만난다. 비행 청소년이지만 순수한 면을 지닌 그녀는 제이미의 지갑을 훔치려다 그가 자살하려는 모습을 보게 되고 그 때부터 시간을 함께 보내주어 결국 그의 자살을 막는다. ‘이투마마’ ‘ 달콤쌉사름한 초콜렛’등 멕시코 영화의 뒤를 있는 제3세대 감독 Gerardo Naranjo 의 2007년 최신작. limited 개봉이지만 2007년 7월17일 미국 개봉시 많은 평단의 주목을 받은 영화로, 아름다운 페르난다 ( 디아나 가르시아)와 페르난다의 아버지가 강제로 결별시킨 가난한 전 남자친구 차노 ( 에밀리오 발데즈). 페르난다의 현재 남자친구로 차노의 출현에 껄끄러워 하고 있는 곤잘로 ( 후안 파블로 카스타네다). 그리고 해변에서 관광객을 등치는 못생기고 뚱뚱한 티그릴로(미리아나 모로) 과 회사 봉급을 횡령해 도주중인 제이미( 페르난도 베셀릴)등 5명의 캐릭터에 초점을 맞추어 배신,사랑,강간,섹스 등을 멕시코의 유명한 해변 휴양지를 배경으로 그리고 있다.
Susi
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.
Eugenia
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
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.