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Browse 58 movies from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión
Nina, a young actress who finds herself in an emotional turmoil during her opening night, struggles with a rehearsal that challenges her limits.
Dec 2024
After her husband leaves during the Mexican Revolution, Ana finds comfort in Rosa with whom she shares many aspects of her life.
Oct 2019
Black drops fall from the water faucets, peek through the drains, and flood the city. Sisters Paula and Teresa, cornered in their apartment, can do nothing but observe as that strange substance takes hold of their lives. Hypnotized, with nowhere to go, they come into contact with the liquid. Gradually, reality begins to distort and they get lost in it.
Jun 2024
Julián is a single father, who will try everything to give his daughter Renata, a very special birthday present. Meanwhile, he will realize Renata's mother is further he thought.
Jan 2024
Omar, a Mexican migrant working in Canada, is the only bilingual worker at his factory. One day, he is ordered to translate devastating news for his colleague Joaquín. The news? The death of Joaquín's son.
Sep 2025
a visual reflection on the tension between inhabiting one's own body and being constantly interpreted through an outside gaze. An exploration of the feminine from within, it confronts a world designed to observe, shape, and censor it. In this space of apparent freedom, intimacy is invaded, and the experience of being becomes an act of resistance.
Jun 2023
Ramón Aguirre is an old actor from the time of the Mexican Golden Cinema, whose years of fame are completely over. Locked away in his apartment in Tacubaya, afflicted by his unfortunate physical condition, as well as by the resounding change suffered in his city, Ramón only has two hobbies left, writing his memories and regrets in a small diary, mainly that of having lost the love of his life, Silvia, and spy through a small crack on his neighbor, Pedro, who is a writer who suffers from artistic block and constant phone fights with his fiancée, and with whom Ramón has developed a peculiar bond, despite of never having exchanged any word.
Apr 2022
Adara, an 18-year-old teenager, has a very close relationship with her mother, until one day she finds out that she suffers from a terminal illness, so her family leaves her bearing the entire responsibility of her care.
Jun 2025
Lourdes is almost 24, works at a casting agency and takes care of her handicapped father, since her mother abandoned them years ago without explanation. Strange for her age and despite the advice of her best friend Victoria, Lourdes has never had a boyfriend or a kiss, just an internet flirt. One day, her mother returns home, reopening old wounds
Mar 2011
Polo and Domingo spend their last days together between Ciudad Mendoza and Cordoba, in Veracruz, Mexico, before Domingo moves to another city for college. Domingo has to say goodbye to his girlfriend, Mina; while Polo deals with his feelings towards his best friend in the little time they have left.
Jun 2013
A teenager, Shams, and her Grandmother, Margarita, go through life and death during nine essential years of their lives.
Sep 2023
Matías, a thirteen-year-old boy, experiences soccer's and adolescence's intense days, along with the pressure to fit in and stand out, the thrill of trying his first cigarette, and the discovery of first love. Between the demands of his environment and his own fears, Matías faces that fragile moment when growing up means taking risks, losing his innocence, and ultimately, finding himself.
Jan 2026
On the first day of Lilia's new life she is tormented by a figure from the past.
"El Emblema", a retired wrestler completely unwilling to let go his profession, steps into the ring one last time to confront his own reality and frustration.
Apr 2024
During a developing session in a photography darkroom, a young man's life will take an unexpected turn when as he reviews some negatives.
Sep 2024
Julián, a nine-year-old boy lives with his single father, who experiences a terrible curse during the night that turns him into a beast after midnight. Julián will devise a plan to get his dad out of that spell, but little by little we will see that not everything is what it seems.
Oct 2023
During a film screening, Daniela faces a strange presence...
Inside a room full of plants, a woman finds shelter from the outside world. Submerged in delirium, Alba experiences her withering.
Oct 2022