Bramadero

Bramadero 2007

4.60

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.

2007

The Black Legend of Mexican Cinema

The Black Legend of Mexican Cinema 2016

5.70

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built throughout the country upon crime and corruption. Ever since, Uncle Miguel was ridiculed and eventually forgotten, but it is certain that his proclaim announced the separation of Mexican cinema and its audience. Discoveries may be found in the films made by Miguel, and bringing back to life these moving pictures might recover this history that was never told, a story that is almost lost and that Contreras Torres himself tried to pass on through his writings in The Black Book of Mexican Cinema.

2016

Three Stories of Love

Three Stories of Love 1978

1

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.

1978

Spiral

Spiral 2009

7.60

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

2009

Everybody's Got Somebody... Not Me

Everybody's Got Somebody... Not Me 2012

4.80

"Everybody's Got Somebody... Not Me" - Alejandra is sick of her daily life and her past relationships that have not worked out. Then she meets María, an adolescent, with whom she has an affair. At first everything runs smoothly, however Alejandra´s personality and her emotional needs prove increasingly demanding; being around her becomes unbearable. At this point, they ask themselves whether they should continue the oppressive relationship, or go on with their ordinary lives.

2012

El grito

El grito 1968

6.60

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.

1968

Todos los días son tuyos

Todos los días son tuyos 2007

4.80

While investigating the terrorist activities of a Basque nationalist group, Mexico City photographer Eliseo (Mario Oliver) becomes obsessed with his neighbor, a gorgeous young separatist named Maria (Bárbara Lennie). But when Maria is murdered, Eliseo is the prime suspect. Pursued by both the police and Maria's killer -- who has slain other Basque separatists -- Eliseo fights to stay alive and clear his name in this fast-paced thriller.

2007

Half of the World

Half of the World 2011

5.40

The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.

2011

The Good Herbs

The Good Herbs 2010

6.00

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

2010

Mudstained Flower

Mudstained Flower 2011

6.20

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.

2011

Exhumados

Exhumados 2022

1

Exposition of two different processes of forensic identification in exhumed bodies with features of violence.

2022

The Sower

The Sower 2018

7.30

Bartolomé, a teacher in a multigrade school on the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico, knows well that pedagogy is not based on textbooks and cannot fit behind the four walls of a classroom. A true sower of knowledge unravels his philosophy and method and becomes a beacon of hope for the creation of a humanistic model of education based on curiosity and love for the outside world.

2018

Mara'akame's Dream

Mara'akame's Dream 2016

6.50

Nieri is an indigenous teenage boy from the Wirrarika culture, who is being indoctrinated by his father on the path of dreaming to reach the Blue Deer and become a Marakame. However, Nieri doubts about having the gift that is necessary to become a Marakame. His real dream is to play Mexican country music and to go to Mexico City to play there with his friends.

2016

Ruins

Ruins 2012

1

An exploration of modern ruins that seeks to record the traces of time in Mexico City.

2012

Word Puzzle for an Empty House

Word Puzzle for an Empty House 2008

8.00

Effort to construct an audio-visual dance between the body of an 90-year old man and the body of his house, that has become an extension of himself.

2008

First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room

First Movement for Twenty Men in an Empty Room 2008

6.00

Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.

2008

Yoeme Labyrinth

Yoeme Labyrinth 2019

1

Millenary and figsty, the Yaqui tribe defends its existence. Since 2010, Sonora's government diverts illegally 75 million cubic meters of water from the Yaqui River each year. This situation has sparked struggles and resistances. In parallel, the Yaqui people have seen flooded their territory by methamphetamines. Now they search for answers to these external aggressions in the depths of their cultural identity.

2019

October Notebook

October Notebook 2019

1

Ricardo receives a visit from Daniel, his teenage cousin. Together they will explore the city and themselves.

2019