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- DirectorMónica Alvarez FrancoThe people of a small community in Veracruz are the guardians of one of the ecosystems facing the most risk in the country: the cloud forest.
- DirectorAlberto Saúl Arnaut EstradaOn March 19th 2010, the Mexican government announced the death of two hitmen, armed to the teeth, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León. Days later, it was discovered that they were in fact honor students who had been tortured and murdered by the military, who later tried to disappear them in a common grave.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
- DirectorMaya GodedThis Documentary shows the life of four third age prostitutes working at one of the most poor neighborhoods of Mexico City.
- DirectorLuciana KaplanStarsNicole MonoskyA documentary of three people in three different cities, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and Mexico City, sharing their experiences on commuting - a sacrifice of half their lives for the sake of supporting themselves and their families.
- DirectorMarta FerrerA journey to the northern Mexican semi-desert in search of the last singers of cardenche, a melancholy song genre that speaks of love and contempt, regret and tragedy. A tradition rooted in cotton farmers and miners, now on the verge of extinction. A song of survival.
- DirectorLudovic BonleuxIn the depths of the Sierra of Guerrero in Mexico, after the disappearance of the 43 students, we find the reaction of wounded civil society to seek an answer to the situation of abuse of authority mixed with poverty.
- DirectorLucía GajáIt is the story of five women from different countries who have survived or are trying to survive domestic violence.
- DirectorRoberto FiescoStarsFernando García OrtegaLilia OrtegaJorge FonsThe memory and testimony of two characters: One, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transvestite some years ago, and now calls himself with a different name. They live together in Garibaldi yearning for their past in the movies, while Coral bravely comes to terms with her gender identity. They both still perform.
- DirectorRicardo SilvaStarsRichard LewisThe imagined apocalypse presented to us through portraits of characters struggling to survive in a hostile environment, where all they have is each other, and the only thing they posses in common is the will to keep on living, no matter the cost.
- DirectorMaría José Glender de MuchaA man recluded into the mountain is forced to question the role he had as a social being and his decision to become isolated when he faces complete solitude.
- DirectorDaniela Rea Gómez
- DirectorSergi Pedro RosThe documentary is about the difficulties that the Yaquis of Sonora (Mexico) face and their ancestral defense of the land and life in Mexico. Today they face a decisive battle. Since 2010, the government of Sonora, through the Independencia Aqueduct, has illegally diverted millions of cubic meters of water from the Yaqui River, causing a serious drought for the tribe and endangering their lives. At the same time, its territory has been flooded with drugs and violence. Yaquis seek an answer in the depths of their cultural identity.
- DirectorLuciana KaplanStarsMaría de Jesús Patricio MartínezYamili Chan DzulCarmen García de AldamaA healer chosen to heal an ailing country. The Spokeswoman (La Vocera), the one who carries our voices is Maria de Jesús Patricio, the first indigenous woman to aspire to the presidency in Mexico. Her journey also tells the story behind the Indigenous Government Council's fight to preserve nature and for a new way of understanding progress in the world today.
- DirectorArturo Díaz SantanaRockstar, activist, mother, friend, sister. A polyphonic portrait of Mexico's 90s, through the life and work of artist Rita Guerrero.
- DirectorRaul Paz PastranaMexico and the United States crack down on the trails north, forcing immigrants into more dangerous territory. Told against the backdrop of the North American migrant trail, 'Border South' weaves together migrant stories of resilience and survival from different vantage points. The film exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death.
- DirectorCarlos HagermanDocumentary about Doris and Oscar, a couple living and working together for 40 years, when they have to face retirement.
- DirectorJavier ÁvilaAfter the murder of Cintia, 19, her mother and older sister begin to explore their own lives marked by abusive relationships with their partners, trying to find an explanation for the crime and a new meaning to their lives.
- DirectorJuan Francisco UrrustiThe veneration for Tonantzin-Guadalupe has been an essential Mexican theme underlying Mexican cultural and political values since the 16th century.
- DirectorJuan Francisco Urrusti
- DirectorJuan Francisco Urrusti
- DirectorCarlos HagermanJorge VillalobosAn animated feature documentary providing a window into the hearts and minds of immigrant youth and their undocumented families
- DirectorAndrés KaiserStarsFarid Escalante CorreaKatja DomaschkArnoldo KaiserThe director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant grandparents creating a cinematic firework of analogies.
- DirectorMarcela ArteagaStarsCarlos SpectorWhile the Mexican State covers crimes, Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer in Texas, struggles to obtain political asylum for Mexicans fleeing violence.
- DirectorJuan Carlos RulfoCartas a distancia is a documentary that reflects the mechanism that a nurse in a hospital in Mexico City and his colleagues created to bring the infected closer to their loved ones. It is directed and produced by Juan Carlos Rulfo, with journalistic research by Melissa Del Pozo and production by Eduardo Díaz Casanova of Península Films. The sound design is by Martín Hernández and the music by Philip Glass and Leonardo Heiblum.
- DirectorEverardo González
- DirectorJuan Pablo MiquirrayA trip along the 1,300 km long Peninsula of Baja California in Mexico, in which we discover a mythological and magical land, with its own time and Characters. In this film the past, the present and the future are interwined to create a beautiful and unique symphony of the nature, the history and people of the Baja. After the trip a reflection emerges: Is our civilization at the limit of the existence? Will we be able to live in harmony with nature?
- DirectorYollótl AlvaradoTania Ximena RuizIn 1982, the eruption of the Chichonal volcano, in southern Mexico, buried the Zoque indigenous town of Guayabal. After 38 years, the owners of Nuevo Guayabal rebuild their lives while the volcano and the old village lurk under the brushwood. Trinidad, a poet born on the day of the eruption, has dreams which spark a collective effort in his community to unearth their old home.
- DirectorAlberto Saúl Arnaut EstradaStarsIndira AlfaroSamantha Olivares CanalesIgnacio CórdobaThis documentary unveils evidence of corruption in the investigation into the murder of five people in the Narvarte neighborhood of Mexico City in 2015.
- DirectorLuis PalominoStarsAna Benítez MuroJose Benitez MuroAna Muro MerinoOblivion is our biggest fear and cinema has the capacity to bring back to life for a moment those whose memory has been captured on film. My mother and my uncle passed away in an extraordinary way that symbolized true friendship and the love between siblings. Their passing was the most important thing that ever happened in my life, and I keep the story as a treasure. When my nephew was born I knew that I needed to make it into a film, so that he could get to know his ancestors and the magic and poetry that existed between them.
- DirectorHelmut DosantosIt follows the resistance to modernization in rural Mexico. It is a reminder that it is still possible to live in tune with our essence as human beings.
- DirectorÁngel Estrada SotoStarsReies Lopez TijerinaIn June of 1967, the court of Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, was assaulted by armed men under the command of Chicano leader Reies López Tijerina.
- DirectorEduardo GiraltEmmanuel MassuStarsLa VaganciaA young group of millennial sicarios loiter around Sinaloa while trying to cope with growing up, their work, toxic masculinity and desires for the future. A profound portrait of the psyche of Narco lost youth.
- DirectorAlberto CortésAn indigenous Wixárika (Huichol) family in northern Jalisco, an Ayuuk (Mixe) family in Oaxaca, and two Tzeltal families in the jungles of Chiapas discuss their cornfields, their roads, and their homes. They reflect on the importance of their crops, and the practical knowhow that enables the everyday epic tale of corn, as well as the dangers faced by this crop and the need to preserve the land used by countless indigenous Mexican communities and farmers to grow their cornfields.
- DirectorSantiago EsteinouStarsÁngeles CruzJuana OsorioRita PatiñoRita Patiño, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was found by a human rights organization inside a Kansas psychiatric hospital, where she had been involuntarily confined, for 12 years, despite the fact that the hospital authorities were never able to determine who was this woman, where did she come from, or what language she spoke. After the consequences of confinement and medical negligence, Rita returned to Mexico, where she lives with Juanita, her niece, and primary caregiver, in a context of precarious economic possibilities. A moving portrait of the lives of these two Tarahumara women, questioning the multiple forms of racism and discrimination that indigenous women in Mexico and the United States face.
- DirectorLeonor Maldonado
- DirectorDiego Enrique OsornoStarsEscuadrón 421Ofelia MedinaA film log of the maritime journey of a delegation of indigenous rebels from Chiapas to Europe in the midst of the pandemic. During the Atlantic crossing, the story and generational change of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) is narrated, based on the idea that in order to change the world we must first change the way we look at it.
- DirectorLuna MaránI am afraid of returning to my hometown and finding my father dead. Memoires of Uncle Yim, as told by his daughter, Luna.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezCombines true stories to create its titular character, and parallels with the manufacturing of a gun. The two stories' convergent paths twist in a double helix of violence which leaves one person dead by firearms every 41 minutes.
- DirectorAndreas KrugerSky RichardsA journey into the Yucatan Peninsula through the mindsets of its inhabitants, as the controversial construction of the "Maya Train" makes its way through the heart of the Maya territory, tradition and perspective based progress.
- DirectorManuel CañibeStarsElvira AracenIrma ChávezMartha CoronadoIn 1971, a group of young female soccer players filled Mexico City's Azteca Stadium with 115,000 spectators to play the final match of the Second Women's World Cup. This documentary features their exceptional and forgotten story.
- DirectorJuan Francisco Urrusti