Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening

Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening 2001

7.86

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.

2001

We Are What We Are

We Are What We Are 2010

5.93

After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.

2010

The Fire of a Firefly

The Fire of a Firefly 2023

1

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.

2023

Benjamín's Wife

Benjamín's Wife 1991

7.00

Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her.

1991

The Other José

The Other José 2005

1

José, a taxi driver in Mexico City, loses his temper at the slightest thing. After causing a lot of trouble over a woman who doesn´t love him, he tries to take his own life. However, saved by a stranger, José learns his lesson and changes. He sets out to show the world and the woman he loves that he is not whom he used to be.

2005

A Secret World

A Secret World 2012

4.50

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.

2012

Evaporated

Evaporated 2017

3.60

A teenager has a crush on his best friend's mom.

2017

Walking Distance

Walking Distance 2015

8.00

Fede is an overweight man, who finds it difficult to move around his own house. One day he finds in photography a way to change his life forever.

2015

Mountain Dust

Mountain Dust 2022

10.00

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.

2022

The Violin

The Violin 2005

7.00

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.

2005

Regard Silence

Regard Silence 2023

1

“I love poetry because it makes me feel like my mind expands.” In Regard Silence, that's the very first sentence expressed—in sign language of course. Watching the poems signed by deaf people in this film has a similarly mind-expanding effect. That’s because sign language—the Mexican version in this case—is a very different means of communication than written or spoken language.

2023

Apnea

Apnea 2023

1

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.

2023

Story Of A Dawn And Two Sunsets

Story Of A Dawn And Two Sunsets 2019

5.00

Oaxaca, October 29th, 2006. The Federal Police advances to take the city that has been in the hands of the popular insurgency for four months. Kresta and Anaclara, young supporters of the revolt, have been asked to pick up a radio transmitter that will supply the flimsy radio station of the movement.

2019

Clean Sex

Clean Sex 2015

7.08

Mariana has an obsessive cleaning habit. After starting a troubled relationship with Enrique. She must accept that sex is dirty and impulsive.

2015

Eufrosina’s Revolution

Eufrosina’s Revolution 2012

7.20

Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza is from Santa Maria Quiegolani, an indigenous community located in Oaxaca, Mexico. After she was denied the right of becoming president of her community, just because she was a woman, Eufrosina began a struggle to achieve gender equality in indigenous communities, questioning the uses and traditions and defying the zone’s chiefs.

2012

The Life After

The Life After 2013

5.20

Two brothers, Samuel and Rodrigo, live with their mother in a suburban town. One day the mother, who has mental health problems, disappears leaving nothing behind but a note. David Pablos is a young Mexican filmmaker, born in 1982. His first short film, El mundo al atardecer, was made in 2007. La canción de los niños muertos (2008) was his second short film; he presented his first feature-length film Una frontera, todas las fronteras (2010) at the Berlinale Talent Campus before coming to Venice with his second film, La vida despues, for the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

2013

Passarinho

Passarinho 2024

1

Two teenage girls try to meet their favorite soccer player, but the plan is threatened when one of them gets her first period.

2024

Summer White

Summer White 2020

6.00

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.

2020

The Reaper

The Reaper 2013

6.30

Efrain, known as the Reaper, has worked at a slaughterhouse for 25 years. We will discover his deep relationship with death and his struggle to live.

2013