Mexican Art Films (contemporary)

Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.

When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever.

Ein Film über die emotional aufgeladene Reise zweier Frauen, die in Mexiko Opfer von Korruption und Ungerechtigkeit werden, und von der Liebe, Würde und Unbeugsamkeit, die ihnen ermöglicht haben, zu überleben.

Ein Jahr im Leben einer bürgerlichen Familie in Mexiko-Stadt Anfang der 1970er Jahre.

POTENTIAE is an intimate portrait of persons with different disabilities in Mexico City.

It's Friday morning at Pan American Machinery Inc., a company specializing in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events pulls them off their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse. The discovery changes everything - the company is bankrupt, the elderly workforce have no prospects of employment elsewhere and no hope of any retirement funds. In a state of confusion, fear and grief they agree to lock themselves in their workplace.

Rosario Castellanos, a shy university student, becomes a voice for the feminist movement in 1950s Mexico.

Two people with insomnia hang out in a shop every night. The shop cashier and they keep each other company at night while their lives are in a moment of crisis.

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the auspices of the authority, because the team is also the 4th Company, a squad of inmates that controls services and privileges in prison, and submits the city to crime, reporting big dividends to men of Power.

An 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.

An old run-down house and an aloof cat are the witnesses to the story that arise between five young adults that live together while they face personal and professional crisis, and general uncertainty about their futures. Despite all their differences, they form, briefly, something like a family, before they all continue with their lives, leaving the cat and the house alone, awaiting for new stories.

Ein Blick auf das Arbeitsumfeld eines Zimmermädchens in einem der luxuriösesten Hotels von Mexiko-Stadt.

Alte aztekische Prophezeiungen erfüllen sich, nachdem Meteoritensplitter und außerirdisches Material auf die Erde gefallen sind.

Dies ist die Geschichte von Uxbal, einem Mann, der zwar in dieser Welt lebt, aber gleichzeitig auch seinen Tod sieht, der jeden seiner Schritte lenkt.

Five men are hired to paint the lines of a road. Painting 1 km/hour is slow enough to learn the lines between good and evil, laughter and despair, life and death. The challenges they face will change their lives forever.

Eine wohlhabende Sozialistin und ihr Mann müssen mit den Auswirkungen der Wirtschaftskrise von Mexiko 1982 kämpfen.

A millennial romantic comedy in which Andres and Emma find each other and realise they are on the same quest: finding out what they want in life. They are both uncertain about what they want but they know exactly what they don't want.

Narco Cultura (Spanish, English subtitles) takes viewers behind the scenes of narcocorridos, the most explosive and violent music subculture in America.