María Secco

Tochtli, a boy who likes hats, dictionaries, samurais, guillotines, and the French. And now, all he wants is a new animal for his private zoo: a Namibian pygmy hippo. HIs father, Yolcaut, is willing to satisfy his every whim, even if that whim is an endangered exotic animal.

When a group of teens finds a corpse floating in a canal, the brutal reality behind the perverse crime unravels a town's hidden secrets.

Chiloé Island, 1880. Rosa Raín is a Huilliche girl who, after the murder of her father at the hands of German settlers, seeks justice with Mateo, leader of an organization of sorcerers called “La Recta Provincia”.

인생의 전환점에서 혼란에 빠진 코미디언이 삶의 의미를 찾기 위해 긴 여정을 떠난다는 내용

The story of a true and masterly poet who lived through war, heyday and tragedy of the end of the century.

According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mexico became one of the deadliest conflict zones in the world in 2017, second only to Syria. In 2008, the Mexican government sent the army to Chihuahua on the Mexico-Texas border to fight drug traffickers. What seemed like an attempt to control the cartels turned into state-sponsored disappearances and the murder of journalists, human rights activists and civilians. The survivors and those threatened by the conflict pushed at the unwelcoming border of the United States, hoping for asylum. With stunning visual poetry, director Marcela Arteaga weaves together a record of their memories told over the backdrop of the once-vibrant landscape of the Juarez Valley. She also highlights the extraordinary work of Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer born in El Paso, Texas, who fights to obtain political asylum for those Mexicans fleeing violence.

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.

Jazmín, a young woman living in Mexico City, is nonplussed when she receives a call informing her that her father Toussaint, an illegal Haitian immigrant, is ill. She hasn't seen him in years, and does not know why they are calling her. When she finally gets to the hospital and discovers that her father is suffering from vascular dementia, she finds herself faced with the task of caring for a man who is more a stranger than a father to her.

Mexico, 2016. In some of the world's most dangerous cities life is not worth much. Looking into the eyes of the protagonists of violence, victims as well as executioners, helps to understand how fear inserted itself in the subconscious of our society. Through a network of concrete stories, we are facing the most obscure traits of the human psyche, the frail balance between humanity and evil.

A dysfunctional young couple argues after their sex session.

It's a life told in four seasons. It is the orbit of a man who comes close to and steps back from the light, experiencing weather transformations in the garden of the soul. A documentary about the meticulous construction of Japanese tea houses in the Mexican Ajusco, as an excuse to discover a mind that at first glance might seem obsessive and eccentric.

Minotaur takes place in a home of books, of readers, of artists. It’s also a home of soft light, of eternal afternoons, of sleepiness, of dreams. The home is impermeable to the world. Mexico is on fire, but the characters of Minotaur sleep soundly.

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.

과테말라 슬럼가에 사는 후안, 사라, 사무엘은 보다 나은 삶을 찾아 미국행 화물열차에 몸을 싣는다. 이들 십대는 중간 지점인 멕시코에서 치아파스 출신의 인디언 차욱을 만난다. 자신의 여친인 사라에게 관심을 보이는 차욱에게 후안이 적개심을 표출하는 와중에도 넷은 일행이 되어 이동한다. 약속의 땅 미국으로 향하는 그들의 여정은 곧 부패한 경찰과 무자비한 강도들, 지독한 국경순찰원들의 폭력으로 물든다. 남미 십대들의 인생에 대한 도전 및 우정과 사랑을 그린 는 올해 신인감독들의 잠재력을 가장 잘 대변하는 수작 중 하나로 칸영화제 주목할만한시선에 소개되었다. 국경을 통과하여 미국으로 건너가고자 하는 이들이 여전히 존재하는 남미의 실상을 지속적 관심사로 삼는 이 지역 영화들을 대표하기도 한다. 영화 속 주인공들은 여느 십대들과 다르지 않고 그들의 여정은 한동안 신나는 여행길과 닮았다. 그러나 그러한 그들의 희망이 꺾이는 모습은 그들이 미처 피지 못한 인생의 한 가운데에 있는 십대라서 더욱 애잔하게 다가온다. (이수원_2013년 제18회 부산국제영화제)

The story of a family marked by tragedy gives rise to a reflection on memory, emotional ties, family secrets and the difficulty for new generations of knowing and accepting life events.

This documentary tells the story of César, the oldest Mexican prisoner on death row in the United States. César has waited for his execution date for more than 30 years, always insisting that he is innocent. Los años de Fierro is a reflection on justice, imprisonment, punishment, guilt and brotherly love, through the eyes of César and his bother, Sergio.

A family vacation is bogged down by unrelenting rain, as a teenage girl and her divorced father try to find common ground.

Ignacio is shooting a documentary on the people who disappeared in 1982 during the armed conflict in an indigenous Guatemalan village. Amongst the families are Delfina and her son Juan. Delfina still hopes to find her husband, but Juan knows who was responsible for the disappearance of his father: someone who still lives in the same village.

Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone: she watches over everyone, sleeps very little, and works too much. She’s increasingly overwhelmed. One day, on impulse, María decides to abandon Agustín.

Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia"

Don Alfonso is a deliveryman. He also plays marimbas, the traditional Guatemalan instrument. He is used to play a folkloric musical show in one of the fancy hotel of Guatemala City. He faces the population's lack of interest for his instrument, considered like out of date and old fashioned. Black is pioneer of the Heavy Metal Guatemalan underground stage. He also is also a doctor in the public hospital but nobody wants to be treated by him because of his long hair and his tattoos. When Don Alfonso and Black meet each other and decide to combine their talents and create a brand new project called Marimbas from Hell, they could never have imagined all the reactions they would provoke among the population.