Festivals with a national competition offer something quite unique in that it’s possible, in a week or ten days, to take the pulse of a country’s cinema and, by extension, the country itself. Which themes speak to filmmakers — or which themes do filmmakers think...
Two young Mexicans are desperate to feel something in Jorge Cuchí’s impressive but hard-to-watch film about suicidal teens.
Ace actress Anajosé Aldrete stars as the desperate mother of a kidnapped son in Claudia Sainte-Luce’s modest but powerful film.
Diana Cardozo looks at the world of Mexican adults from a child’s point of view in this charming and nuanced film.
An impressively staged indie that explores the idea of success on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.
Juan Carlos Rulfo has composed his own “Love in the Time of Covid”, a deeply moving chronicle of Mexico’s pandemic response.
Teresa Camou Guerrero’s poetic, heartbreaking documentary follows an indigenous Mexican family displaced by violent drug traffickers who struggle to return to their homelands.
Three little girls grow up in a village terrorized by the drug cartels in Tatiana Huezo’s dreamy and terrifying first feature, which won San Sebastian’s Latin Horizons crown.
Joaquin del Paso’s intense Mexican drama spirals out of control, just like its protagonists.