Paradisio

A Mexican upper-class family suffers a great loss. After a while everyone seems to go on with their lives. But after 11 years, everyone will start to remember that tragedy and start the road to depression and self-pity, and possible self-destruction.

After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.

Disoriented after moving to a new apartment and left to herself when her mother starts bringing men home, Alicia takes refuge in dreams that soon become nightmares, especially after she begins to fear that her mom has become possessed by the vampirish man next door.

Magdalena makes a journey to find her missing son, who disappeared on his way to the border with the United States. Accompanied only by her will and her memories, Magdalena enters a violent and desolated territory, the migration route in Mexico.

Documentary about a lodging house, owned by Rosa Carbajal, at the corner of Shakespare and Víctor Hugo streets.

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.

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

We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.

Elba is an introverted and lonely fourteen year old teenager that lives with Fernanda, her older sister. The sisters don't get along and their mother is abset. Fernanda decides to runaway, but before she does Elba reaches out to her.

Abdias and Sara are a married couple who have lost their 7-year-old daughter, named Ana. Sara convinces her husband to take Ana’s dead body in their car trunk and enter on a journey hoping to find a clergyman who could miraculously resucitate their daughter.

A non-fiction film about three friends seeking traces of an old "gringo" who went to die in the jungle of Guatemala. Starting out from the guesthouse in Mexico City where he was seen for the last time, we follow his journey south. New characters appear along the way, people he could have known who share their visions of life and death. The search takes on a life of its own, and leads us deeper into the unknown...

Gizella turns 15 today; she's becoming a woman. Her strict and bourgeois parents have organized a fancy dinner-party to celebrate with their closest friends. At the end of the event, Gizella will have to give a speech, but everything gets complicated when she discovers that a little plant has begun to grow in her mouth. Gizella needs to hide her secret to save her parents from the shame, though this means going against her own nature.

Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which finally comes true when they are contracted to serve as musical background for strippers of a second class cabaret. In case i never see you again, is a movie about life, death, melancholy and the quest for happiness.

Under the notion that "you can not change the future, but the past," a young woman who has grown up in a poor village in the highlands, embarks on a spiritual journey to Mexico City seeking to break the cycle of family alienation and find hope. Fate will return to the source to destroy and start over.

Bruno, a novelist with no luck goes to call for help from his love always sofia, who is in Veracruz desolate without knowing what to do with the corpse of her boyfriend who died because of a heart attack while they made love

Ana and Leo, are marked since childhood by a sudden event: the suicide of their father. Separately, they take life as they can, without removing the feeling that anything can become as disposable as plastic.

Estela is an eight year old girl who has her first approach to mortality through the death of her best friend during a car accident. Estela will face these mortality related situations in a very peculiar manner while she discovers herself in the way.

Benny is a man who has decided to live alone in a one-bedroom place, alone with his memory, where time fades away. A free spirit and a passionate musician, his life was filled with excesses, but Benny believes that music is philosophy, and that thought makes him leave everything to become the man he wants to be, without any regard for the consequences of his autonomy.

Hugo and Julia are two high school students that have different dreams and goals. Their lives take different paths learning that in this life, everything has a price, and everyone has to pay his own.

At the close of a special day, family ties are shown to be fragile before the shared feeling concerning an important abscence when the sensation of absence. Uncle Manuel, a very peculiar man is determined to help his sibling's adolescent children and his brother-in-law, an unemployed union leader. Mom's house has now become a place where the family could vanish due to a world of broken dreams.