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Jonás, Leonor and Bernardo work on the last rehearsal before the premiere. The producer gives them the sudden news that the theater will close due to a political march. The premiere is cancelled. Despite everything, the three actors try to perform the play.
Aug 2019
Tribute to Leopoldo Méndez, a prominent Mexican artist, considered the most important printmaker in Contemporary Mexico
Jan 1970
Upon the death of his grandfather and playmate, Bruno, an 8-year-old boy, embarks on a journey in a magical world, trying to finish the unfinished story he was building with his grandfather to become a king.
Jul 2023
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.
Oct 2012
Despite it being her father's death anniversary, Patricia, a young streamer, tries to continue with her daily rutine until one sponsor offers her a large sum to make a live stream that night playing "ORFEO", a paranormal summoning challenge. She accepts without imagining how dangerous it is to face your own demons.
Dec 2022
After the colonization of Mars, an elderly man looks back on his memories of Earth and the past he has left behind.
Sep 2017
The task of some guerrillas is to try to foment the conscience among peasants of a town, but their attempts will be tragically restricted.
Oct 1976
The relationship between a nephew and his aunt in the begining of Mexico's 20th century.
Jan 1988
Jun 2015
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.
Feb 2004
Carmela, a 50 years old tough lady, wakes up in a crumbling, cantina, her head pounding and memories hazy. Confused and disoriented, she confronts Agustín, the enigmatic bartender who seems to know more than he lets on. He helps her remember fragments of the night before that led her to this desolate place. As the truth unfolds, Carmela must face the painful reality of who truly deceived her.
Jun 2025
Poncho, an 8-year-old boy, becomes obsessed with finishing a time machine, since he wants to meet Papá Nacho, his grandfather, again; who passed away months ago.
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.
Jan 1979
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.
Mar 2018
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.
Oct 2018
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.
Mar 2011
A woman finds old video tapes with memories of a trip taken by her late mother, Silvia. Moved by what she sees, she embarks on the same journey to the same place, falling asleep on the way.
Nov 2022
Jaime, a nostalgic old man, gets a device that can make him relive his memories, which he uses to see the last Christmas he lived with his family in 1995. This will show him that all memories have a price.
After discovering his mother crying, a boy is stalked by unknown presences.
Jul 2022
When she eventually has to return to her old school, a woman remembers her complicated childhood when a strange presence returns.
Nov 2025