Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.
An extraordinary film about memory, and specifically the fading memory of an 86-year-old political activist who has fought tirelessly against historical amnesia and for justice in Argentina. The director’s grandmother, Laura Bonaparte, was one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, formed during the 1970s by women whose children and family members had been disappeared by the Videla military dictatorship. Laura herself lost three children and their partners, including the director’s parents. Today, after a lifetime battling that the disappeared never be forgotten, Laura faces her own struggle to remember.
To release sweat from the skin's pores as a result of existing. A production by Carmen Martínez where she explores love, youth, old age, and desire.
A family on the brink of a break up: dad is about to throw out mom because of her gambling addiction, the oldest boy's girlfriend is about to leave him because of his epilepsy and the youngest child thinks he has the perfect plan to bring the family back together again.
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.
Renata has a secret relationship with Liliana, her swimming coach. The game of power in which the couple dwells can transform the love and passion they profess for each other into the same force that destroys them.
A poetic, tender road movie, A Secret World follows tormented teenager Maria as she makes her way through Mexico seeking her place in life. The film focuses on the pleasant beauty of the landscape and the eccentric, endearing personality of Maria as she comes into her own. Gorgeously filmed, this lyrical coming-of-age story doubles as a wistful hymn to a young woman’s self-discovery.
In a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the collection of money from merchants and residents of the area is an everyday occurrence. On a sunny Sunday, in a housing unit located in one of these areas, a merchant has not paid his fee and the hired killers have come to give him an ultimatum.
Rodrigo is a solitary teenager, a king in the private world he shares with his mother. Things change when she takes her new boyfriend home to live. He must decide if he fights for his throne and crushes the happiness of the person he loves the most.
Pedro, an indigenous migrant, returns to his village for his mother's funeral. When he learns of the serious problem his brother Ismael is involved in, he decides to stay and face the consequences of his absence.
A teenager has a crush on his best friend's mom.
Pato, is a woman who must face her way, while struggling with the memory of a miscarriage. Lupita is a teenager looking for her place in the world.
Two teenage girls try to meet their favorite soccer player, but the plan is threatened when one of them gets her first period.
It is the story of Jessy, a young domestic employee who, in the midst of mining exploitation, finds the strength to confront the political power that is destroying her family's health.
On their way back home from a baseball academy’s tryouts, Pedro and Lucio are taken hostage and turned over to a criminal group. The teenage friends are forced to fight each other to death; Pedro defeats Lucio and manages to escape. Pedro receives help and refuge with Lucio’s family and he witnesses the family’s collapse and pain. Pedro is tormented with guilt and fear, he cannot tell his friend’s family the truth.
Aurelia and Antonia distance themselves from their youth due to the greed of one of them to keep the house that their parents inherited. Aurelia spends her life alone in the countryside, until one night Antonia knocks on her door. Between the bewilderment and anger at the visit, Aurelia agrees to live with her sister who shows strange behavior and little by little she will discover what is behind it.
Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.
sofía returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The earth is an immutable witness that refuses to forget.
