Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC)

A young man returns to differente people and places in his life, to repay favors once done and change the lives of those surrounding him, forever.

An actor from the provinces, a soap-opera star, reaches the big city with dreams of success. Partly through sincerity and partly prompted by an uneasy conscience, he wants to revolutionize the traditional photo-novel by linking it to social and political reality, to "bring social conscience to the masses" by utilizing this traditionally manipulative and alienating mass medium. The film narrates, in a tragicomic tone, the itinerary followed by Gualberto Rodriguez in his efforts to produce his 'revolutionary' photo-novel: the story of a peasant that migrates to the city, becomes a blue-collar worker, tries to establish a union, and ends up falling in love with the factory owner's daughter. The 'revolutionary' ends up being used, manipulated, and his project fails completely.

In the summer of revolt 1968, student Leobardo López Aretche captured the protests in Mexico City, and the state’s brutal response, up close – and like many of his subjects and fellow comrades, would pay a high price for his audacity. Fifty years later, his movie is no longer a secret.

The beautiful and erotic Bramadero finds Hassen and Jonás on the outskirts of Mexico City. Away from it all, they’ve found a spot where they can seduce one another and merge into one; where sex becomes desire, desire becomes love, and only death will separate them.

Short documentary on Frida Kahlo's life, illness, art, love and death.

After the colonization of Mars, an elderly man looks back on his memories of Earth and the past he has left behind.

The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.

As a teenager and student at a convent school, young Mariana runs away with her boyfriend, provoking the wrath of her father who sends her to Switzerland for ten years.

Tribute to Leopoldo Méndez, a prominent Mexican artist, considered the most important printmaker in Contemporary Mexico

A journey above and below the sea, portraying the charm and diversity of the waters of northwest Mexico. A team of urban documentary filmmakers and divers set sail for several weeks on a boat, The Sandman, and discover the unexplored: surprisingly large and friendly creatures, waters teeming with life, beauty, and movement concentrated in natural reserves of the Gulf of California and the Pacific, unique in the world.

A man about to be executed asks for a miracle: for time to stop. The miracle happens and he writes a story in which he tries to cheat death. Death overtakes him in reality and fiction.

Chicali is a young street cop who starts killing for the mafia by an unexpected situation. Mario, locked up for killing the Mexican presidential candidate in 1994 comes out of prison after 20 years of lockup and returns to Tijuana to rebuild his life. Jenny is an American homeless who decides to cross the border to Mexico in order to change her condition. Jenny falls in love with young Chicali, who is assigned to kill Mario.

Ángel and Isabel meet briefly in the city subway, and establish a brief relationship that will make them take a decisive turn in their lives.

On February th 1970, Carlos Castañeda de la Fuente tried to assassinate the Mexican President to avenge the Tlatelolco massacre from October 2nd 1968, defying the most repressive regime in the contemporary Mexican history. Forty years later, this failed avenger survived the system´s disproportionate retaliation, only to wander Mexico City´s streets as a vagrant.

A young woman has to deal with her mother's degradation due to Alzheimer's disease.

A married, middle-aged well-known biochemist and university teacher Augusto, leaves his wife, his job and the comfort of his life to go after Marlene, a 14-year-old teenager with extraordinary beauty who burst into his life unexpectedly. One day, Marlene is taken from the custody of Augustus by Genaro, a psychotic sailor, who seduces and finally kidnaps her by taking to the ominous port of Tampico, where Augustus will seek her to try to free her, not without giving her life to pain and atonement, undergoing a deep personal transformation.

Three people live in the same building: An anxious teenager, a girl who wants to be kidnapped by a prince, and a maid who wants to explore eroticism.

The film tells the story of Raquel, Rodolfo and Hernán, members of a brigade at the UNAM during the student movement in Mexico in 1968. Through their photographs, films and writings, we will know the history of the day that the army took the university and how their students united, shouted and never forgot.

Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.

Eddie is an old rock'n'roller who lives tormented by his memories, which make him unable to live in the present.