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Browse 91 movies from Fomento al Cine Mexicano (FOCINE)
Under the imposing snow-capped mountains of Utah, a Mexican family lives with the uncertainty of a loved one's disappearance.
Apr 2025
During the summer, thirteen-year-old Sofia moves to the country house, where her cousin Cristina is waiting for her to spend the vacations. During these days of games and discoveries, the two will be immersed in a love triangle with a man almost twenty years older. Its outcome will mark the passage from puberty to adolescence for both of them.
Oct 2022
Corina is 20 years old and does not leave her house except to work in a publishing house located in the neighborhood where she lives. After making a serious mistake with the end of the company's most famous book saga, Corina must overcome her fears with the help of Carlos and embark on a journey in search of a mysterious writer to save her job and that of her colleagues.
Jan 2025
In mid-90s Mexico City, five young siblings are left in the care of their grandmother after their parents suddenly disappear. As they fight to survive, the line between reality and something darker starts to blur. The grandmother, haunted by eerie visions and deepening fears, becomes more distant, while the children’s grip on reality begins to unravel. After a clash with their neighbors, the siblings withdraw even further into isolation, cutting themselves off from the outside world.
Feb 2025
At 75 years old, Ricardo has problems balancing his job as a janitor at an elementary school and the care his wife requires in a wheelchair. Since it is impossible for him to survive on the pension he would receive, he must continue working and the conflict with a student will end up causing him to lose everything.
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Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her.
Nov 2025
Christian, a former organized crime member, seeks redemption by founding Ángeles Soccer, a team that trains kids and women on a once crime-ridden lot in one of Mexicali's most dangerous neighborhoods, aiming to rebuild the community he once harmed.
Jul 2025
Eduardo, an 18-year-old kid from a small village in Jalisco, travels to Guadalajara. In this big and strange city, away from the eyes of his parents, he experiences his first encounters in love and sex.
In the late 80s Mexico, a family made up of seven women from different generations and ideologies fights to save the house in which they live and which they are about to lose due to an outstanding debt. We see the story through the eyes of the youngest, Roberta (8), as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, which impacts the rest of the family.
May 2026
40 years ago in Mexico, a group of women filmmakers gathered to make films dealing with taboo subjects, gender violence, rape, feminicide, clandestine abortion, labor discrimination. They called themselves “Cine Mujer” and were active as a collective for over 10 years. Today they reflect on violence against women and their continuous struggles, which are still prevalent in modern society.
Oct 2023
A horror story that intertwines four tales on a fishing island in Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, where an evil lake spirit haunts the inhabitants, casting a dark shadow over their lives.
Socorro is a lawyer obsessed with finding the soldier who killed her brother during the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. When she receives a crucial clue about the soldier’s whereabouts fifty years after her brother’s death, Socorro embarks on a reckless mission for revenge.
Dec 2024
With his single mother consumed by demanding work, young Pedro seeks comfort in the warm company of funeral home employees. Amidst the quiet of this unusual setting, it's Samo, the compassionate embalmer, who guides Pedro through the chaos of school life and the tender stirrings of first love.
A graffiti artist and a punk band singer meet amidst a profound social crisis. With revolutionary and idealistic visions for a fairer world, they bond over music and street art, using them as their weapons. Innocent and determined, they demand justice, but their defiance attracts the wrath of three corrupt policemen. After beating him and kidnapping her, they ignite the unimaginable fury of someone who has nothing left to lose.
Mar 2026
Evy and Quiti share with us the remnants of their relationship as they navigate their lives in solitude. They are the last two inhabitants of a ghost town in the Sonora Mountains, in northern Mexico.
Sep 2023
Luz de Luna became a truck driver to escape a violent marriage. On the road, she faces labor exploitation and various forms of violence that often make her question her path. Alongside her, other truck drivers seek comfort and strength at rest stops and makeshift diners along the Mexican highways, all striving to keep moving forward.
Oct 2025
Fabiola, 38 weeks pregnant, is leading her U16 boys' basketball team in the Mexico City finals. As the game heats up, her water breaks, leaving everyone wondering what will happen next.
Oct 2024
Olimpia Coral Melo never set out to become a feminist icon. The humiliation of seeing her intimate video go viral made her want to abandon her own name. For thirteen years, she fought to pass a law against digital sexual violence in Mexico. Now, as the Olimpia Law gains momentum across Latin America, she must come to terms with her wounds and reclaim the name that shame once tried to take away from her.
Jun 2025
The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara. Rayenari introduces him to the Peyote ceremony. However, the poet abandons the ritual and loses his soul. Sometime later, Rayenari discovers through dreams that Artaud has been committed to a mental hospital. It will be through this connection that Rayenari will help his friend to recover what he lost.
Jun 2024
In the 1970s, Mexican bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo boldly confronts the Inquisition and defies Latin American dictatorships, striving to ignite a global spiritual revolution.