Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties.
The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate and disorienting memory, Lesser Choices summons a time of profound uncertainty—a moment from an era without rights—and offers a warning to the present.
Lesser Choices
2022
6
Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by more than 18 million listeners, Carmen continues her fight. Her goal: raising awareness and fighting against misinformation. The film tells the story of this quest: difficult and dangerous, but essential to the health of democracy. A story in which resistance becomes a form of survival.
Silencio radio
2021
8
Best friends travel though Latin America meeting shamans, experimenting with plant medicines, and wondering about what makes a life well-lived when one of them might have half the time to live it.
Léa & I
2019
5
Documentary about young people who are dedicated to cleaning windshields in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl to survive.
La Neta, No Hay Futuro
1988
7
On September 19, 2017, at 1:14 p.m., an earthquake devastated Mexico City and its environs. Immediately, citizens mobilized to help, including the actor and youtuber Juanpa Zurita who quickly organized a group of friends that included singers, actors, content creators and other celebrities from the world of entertainment who helped him raise funds for the reconstruction of the city.
13:14: El Reto de Ayudar
2022
5
Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.
El baile de los 41
2020
7
Valverde, un año de arcoiris
2019
7
México-raised and currently Chicago-based artist Sofía Fernández Díaz details her process of adorning found objects and handmade textiles with beads, dyes, and melted wax to imbue them with new meaning, and to give them patitas.
The Studio of Sofía Fernández Díaz
2023
0
Is the notion of a real Matrix plausible? An investigation of the technologies that inspire the metaphor of the Matrix trilogy.
The Hard Problem: The Science Behind the Fiction
2004
8
Un escándalo llamado Byron (Los otros)
2019
0
At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the silent protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos changed The Games forever, becoming one of the defining images of the 20th century.
1968
2018
0
Bettie Spanks, a drag queen from Mexico City, guides us through a story about identity, drag, love, sexuality, and her duality.
La Reina de los tacones Imposibles
0
The film tells the story of Raquel, Rodolfo and Hernán, members of a brigade at the UNAM during the student movement in Mexico in 1968. Through their photographs, films and writings, we will know the history of the day that the army took the university and how their students united, shouted and never forgot.
Olimpia
2018
6
A very special trip to one of the most inaccessible sites of the Spanish heritage: the Altamira cave. A guided visit to its impressive painted walls and all its secret nooks and crannies.
El guardián de la cueva
2018
6
A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.
España: la primera globalización
2021
7
“Archeology” and “Archive” share the same roots. Both words come from “Arkhé”, the Greek word for “origin”. In the ruins of buildings, lost forever by earthquakes, as in the depth of the archives, we dig. What happened the morning of the big earthquake? The morning of September 19th 1985 is fading away in our memories. These recordings have never been seen. Unedited images of the catastrophe dug out by the archaeological adventure of an archivist that suffered with them. He dug and suffered until he could no longer see.
Arkhé
2023
1
A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to life. When does the image of the accident become the object of desire? Following the footsteps of Metinides and the work of contemporary tabloid photographers, we discover Mexico City through a narrative of crime scenes and accidents; rubbernecking though Metinides’ Gaze.
El Hombre que vio Demasiado
2015
7
A warm memory of Tucuman childhoods called Tapalín: a clown who shouted "Long live the Homeland!" thirty years ago on TV. Now he lives without frills. It narrates the relationship between Tapalín, the singer Carlos Geomar and César Quiroga who live in the same body.
Tapalín, la película
2014
0
Ciudad Merced
2013
8
This documentary walks the line between fact and fiction, delving into corruption in the Mexican police through the experiences of two officers.
Una película de policías
2021
7