Cine en lenguas originarias de México
Péliculas mexicanas con dialogo hablado en alguna lengua de los pueblos nativos que habitaron el país antes de la llegada de los europeos al continente.
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- DirectorServando GonzálezMohy QuandourStarsRicardo AnconaJesús MedinaMaría BustamanteThe engaging and sentimental tale begins when the little boy (Ricardo Ancona) starts manifesting a greater and greater talent at music and at the same time, a super-sensitivity to sounds. His overly astute hearing drives him into the woods and away from the cacophony of the town's hustle and bustle. Once in the woods, he meets a kindly old hermit who teaches him how to play the violin he made. After the old man dies, the violin ends up at a pawn shop, and each night the boy sneaks in to play it in secret. It is this haunting, nightly music that sets the town on edge -- people think an evil spirit is on the loose.Náhuatl, sólo algunas palabras.
- DirectorRafael CorkidiStarsErnesto Gómez CruzAurora ClavelJorge Humberto RoblesP'urhépecha
- DirectorRolando KleinStarsPablo Canche BalamAlonzo Mendez TonSebastian SantisUnique story of a village's attempts to solve drought by appealing to the powers of a mysterious mountain-dwelling diviner.Bats’il k’op (Tzeltal)
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsEnrique LuceroSalvador SánchezErnesto Gómez CruzA group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.Náhuatl.
- DirectorJulián PastorStarsIgnacio López TarsoAna Luisa PeluffoPedro Armendáriz Jr.In the South Yucatan at the turn of the 20th century, a Revolutionary Republican general battles against the region's wealthy land owners.Maaya (maya yucateco), algunos diálogos.
- DirectorRaúl AraizaStarsErnesto Gómez CruzRaúl RamírezAarón HernánA young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.
- DirectorSergio OlhovichStarsAarón HernánSalvador SánchezDelia CasanovaA business man drives across a shady Mexican town to deliver a large sum of money where he is forced to pick up a group of poor dubious hitchhikers who awaken a frenzy of paranoia within him.Náhuatl
- DirectorGabriel RetesStarsAarón HernánTito JuncoBruno ReyA story of a priest set in 16th century Mexico who converted the local pagan population to Christianity by making a statue of the Virgin Mary resembling a native woman.P'urhépecha.
- DirectorMarcela Fernández ViolanteStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Helena RojoErnesto Gómez CruzDuring his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.Rarámuri, algunos diálogos.
- DirectorJuan Mora CatlettStarsRodrigo PueblaRafael CortesJosé ChávezA very hard drought devastates an ancient Mexican empire. Warriors and priests fight for power while people are dying. A group of priests return to Aztlan, the mythological place where Mexican culture was born, to pray to the goddess Coatlicue and stop the drought.Náhuatl clásico
- DirectorMiguel SabidoStarsRamón AbascalRoberto AlavezAgustín AvilésNáhuatl
- DirectorSalvador CarrascoStarsDamián DelgadoJosé Carlos RodríguezElpidia CarrilloIt is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado]. Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the dawn of a new era in his native land. A New World with new leaders, language, customs... and God. Representing the New Order is the Spanish Friar Diego [José Carlos Rodríguez]. His mission is to convert the "savage" natives into civilised Christians; to replace their human sacrifices and feathered deities with public Christenings and fealty to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With Topiltzin, Friar Diego faces his most difficult spiritual and personal challenge, for when Topiltzin is captured by Spanish troops and presented to Cortés [Iñaki Aierra], the Spanish Conqueror places Topiltzin's conversion under Friar Diego's care. Old world confronts the New as Topiltzin struggles to preserve his own beliefs, whilst Friar Diego attempts to impose his own. All the while, the question remains: who is converting who?Náhuatl clásico.
- DirectorÓscar Urrutia LazoStarsGuillermo LarreaSoledad RuizÁngeles CruzThe adventure of a young photographer in the Mexican jungle, searching for his lost shadow, stolen by an old Indian witch.Tu'un savi (mixteco central)
- DirectorRafa DevillamagallónStarsMartina Rojas NavaTaurino Rojas GonzálezEvelia Cortéz OleaTu'un savi (mixteco).
- DirectorFrancisco AthiéStarsUrara KusanagiMarco Antonio ArzateThe story of an android that raises alive in the deepest caves of the mayan zone in México and meets and old dying man. They will stablish a spiritual bond than enlightens the old mayan and helps him to release himself out of his withered body.
- DirectorSergio Tovar VelardeStarsAmérica GonzálezOti ManzanoEsteban MonroyBefore entering the road to Wirikuta, sacred land of peyote, Jatumari, a young huichol woman must ritualistically confess to the community that she has been with her husband, and also with his brother.Wixárika.
- DirectorJuan Mora CatlettStarsCarlos Enrique AlarcónÉdgar AlejandreErandini Catalina Alvarado VillegasThe story of Princess Eréndira of the Tarascan, who, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, led her people in a fight against the Spanish conquerors in the region of the Aztec Empire.P'urhépecha
- DirectorSantiago ParraStarsJosé Carlos RuizPedro Armendáriz Jr.Angélica AragónJose Maria and his sister Mercedes are archaeologists who have been given a grant to study the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Juan Diego, an ordinary man living near the hill of Tepeyac, witnessed in December 1531.Nahuatl
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsAntonio Lerma BatistaEvaristo Lerma BatistaEvaristo and Luis Antonio - indigenous brothers from the SierraTarahumara in northwest Mexico - have just graduated from boarding elementary school. Evaristo desires to continue his education, leading a bicultural life, where the Tarahumara, or Raramuri as they call themselves, have the opportunity to keep learning to speak, read and write in Spanish, the Mexican official language. Meanwhile Luis Antonio "Tony" is very happy to be done with school. Even though he is a smart kid and has won a grant to move on to high school, he prefers to live life in the ranch, where the kids grow up at a very young age. One morning the brothers are sent to deliver some medicine to a far away community. Tony asks their grandfather for permission to take his horse but the answer is no. Nevertheless, he decides to take it, even if Evaristo is not convinced. They take a wrong path that leads them to a narrow and deep canyon. The horse cannot go on so the boys tie it around a tree. When they come back for it the horse is no longer there. Both, angry and worried, walk in the forest looking for it; Tony thinks the horse was stolen while Evaristo is worried about the assignment. Arguing about this, they suddenly lose each other. Now each on their own continue the journey separately; Tony looks for the horse and ends up at an amusing party, while Evaristo is lonely in the canyons looking for the place to deliver the medicine. The trip becomes longer than expected. They can't go back without the horse.Ralámuli raicha (Rarámuri del norte)
- DirectorNicolás RojasTu'un savi (mixteco)
- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsAna de la RegueraAsur ZagadaMarco PérezThe true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-1990s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?Bats’il k’op (Tzeltal)
- DirectorPavel RodriguezStarsItzi CarrilloAmaruc Lucas HernándezBlanca SantosP'urhépecha.
- DirectorFrancisco AthiéStarsJosé María de TaviraMarcello MazzarellaCassandra CiangherottiDuring the final decade of 18th century in Mexico City, capital of the vice-royalty of New Spain, the official choreographer publicly complains of the abusive and unjust methods of the administrator of the vice-royalty, and puts in jeopardy his life and his mestizo son's, in a climate of social privation, racism and intrigues of power and religion faith that grows out of proportion when the Inquisition intervenes.Náhuatl
- DirectorRoberto OlivaresThe story of an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking village of San Agustin Oapan, Guerrero, Mexico. Told with a lyrical combination of lingering imagery and ethnographic detail, 'Silvestre Pantaleon' follows the protagonist as he struggles to pay for a curing ceremony and provide for his family. He dedicates himself to the only remunerative activities he knows: handcrafting rope for religious ceremonies and building seldom-used household objects that he alone still has the skills to produce. 'Silvestre Pantaleon' is a simple though universal tale of aging. It suggests both triumph (the household provided for and health recovered--through offerings to the hearth, the earth, the river, and the deceased) and reversal (the recognition that healing is but an ephemeral hiatus in the inexorable advance of time).Nawatl de Guerrero
- DirectorItandehui JansenStarsUbaldo Lopez GarciaUbaldo LopezRoberto MaresDuring the ceremony to change the authorities in an indigenous town, where a council of elders passes leadership to a new council made up of younger men, all the money of the town is counted publicly. The next day, the treasury is empty: Who stole the money?Tu'un savi (mixteco)
- DirectorEva Aridjis FuentesStarsZachary BoothAllison CaseRafael CortesAn American couple travels to Chiapas, Mexico where they have a life changing encounter with a shape-shifting witch.Bats’i k’op (Tsotsil), sólo algunas palabras.
- DirectorNicolás RojasStarsAgapita CiprianaUrbano CisnerosRaúl David Ramírez SalmoránFidencio, an old violinist, begins searching for the members of his old orchestra to greet his son. When life goes silent, music fnds us anew.Tu'un savi (mixteco)
- DirectorDiego Quemada-DiezStarsBrandon LópezRodolfo DomínguezKaren MartínezA road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.Bats’i k’op (Tsotsil).
- DirectorYolanda CruzStarsMelitón Bautista CruzLucero Granados GarciaMaricruz Rosales CruzAn elderly Zapotec man with an altogether different notion of time shops for a watch with his granddaughter in the city of OaxacaZapoteco
- DirectorGust Van den BergheStarsGabino RodríguezNorma PabloMaría AcostaOn his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, and start playing with its citizens' lives.P'urhépecha, sólo un diálogo.
- DirectorIván LipkiesStarsMaría Elena VelascoEduardo ManzanoRafael InclánAt the request of her ancestor, emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, La India María must find and destroy Tezcatlipoca's magical black mirror to prevent the destruction of Mexico.Nahuatl.
- DirectorRubén ImazYulene OlaizolaStarsDon Roque Galicia CervantesXabier CoronadoMartín RománIn 1519, Conquistador Diego de Ordaz and two soldiers march to the summit of the great Mexican volcano Popocatépetl.Nahuatl