Laredo 17

This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer faces trial for Mexico's violent history. The fourth feature from Santiago Mohar Volkow, Una historia de amor y guerra centres on real estate baron Pepe Sánchez-Campo, whose mega-mall development brings him into conflict with local guerrillas. For once, bribery and a call to Daddy might not be enough to save Pepe – a character more grotesque than the telenovela unfolding around him. Trying to sabotage Pepe's marriage to Constanza, her cousin and lover Teo records Pepe cheating. The resulting chaos precipitates in a burlesque bloodbath involving treachery, talking animals, colonial history and bartering in the afterlife.

During a beach outing with a youth group, tragedy strikes when a young boy drowns due to a monitor’s oversight. Antoine, the grieving father, faces an agonizing decision: he has just eight hours to sign his son’s death certificate and confront the devastating truth of his loss. As time ticks away, he wrestles with overwhelming grief, guilt, and a battle between forgiveness and hatred, struggling to find a way forward in the face of unimaginable pain.

Adam's mother tries to protect him from the evil of the outside world.