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Mexican cinema and people awarded or nominated at Venice's Biennale
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- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsDaniel Giménez CachoGriselda SicilianiXimena LamadridAn acclaimed documentarian goes on an introspective journey through surreal dreamscapes to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
- DirectorIsmael RodríguezStarsPedro InfanteBeatriz AguirreAndrés SolerThe biography of the famous mexican waltz composer Juventino Rosas
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsSean PennBenicio Del ToroNaomi WattsA freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.
- DirectorCarlos ArmellaStarsLisset GarcíaPatricia MenesesAlberto TrujilloA quiet journey to a forsaken land where hunger turns the heart into a desert landscape.
- DirectorLorenzo VigasStarsAlfredo CastroLuis SilvaJericó MontillaArmando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsNaian González NorvindEligio MeléndezMónica Del CarmenA lavish high-society wedding unexpectedly turns into a class struggle that leads to a violent coup.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsIndira Rubie AndrewinGilberto BarrazaMariano Tun XoolTo escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.
- DirectorJorge CuchiStarsKarla CoronadoJosé Antonio ToledanoGerardo TrejolunaTwo 17-year-olds, Félix and Elisa, meet playing the Blue Whale Challenge, fall in love and decide to take on together the game's final challenge: suicide.
- DirectorLorenzo VigasStarsHernán MendozaHatzín NavarreteElián GonzalezA Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.
- DirectorMichel FrancoStarsTim RothAlbertine Kotting McMillanSamuel BottomleyNeil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.
- DirectorJoaquin del PasoStarsValeria LammLucciano KurtiEric David WalkerExposes the fault lines and schisms of contemporary Mexican society.
- DirectorRodrigo PláLaura SantulloStarsLeah MillerJorge CastroJulia ChavezA mother may lose custody of her son because she refuses to medicate his ADHD.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsRegina OrozcoDaniel Giménez CachoSherlynThe life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsPatricia Reyes SpíndolaNora VelázquezSilvia PasquelIn the small hours of the morning, two elderly hookers return to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross-dressing husband, the other with her loneliness. But that night they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin dwarves in masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the doses prove fatal. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street.
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsNatalia LópezPhil BurgersCarlos ReygadasA family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horse-breaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.
- DirectorAmat EscalanteStarsRuth RamosSimone BucioJesús MezaA couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.