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- A senior cartel enforcer named Herminio living in Northern California's agricultural valley comes to terms with old age and creeping death. Herminio wants nothing more than to die in his motherland, that is Mexico.
- Within the history of the struggle for power in Mexico, in the year 2006, a man defied the institutions and proclaimed himself the legitimate president: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The chronicle of the unexpected defeat of the man who led the electoral polls for four years and who, - in spite of having received over 14 million votes cast on July 2, 2006, - was finally defeated by a half a percentage point. For 20 months one of the most controversial politicians in Mexico's history allowed an independent film crew to accompany him, step by step, from his days as Mayor of Mexico City (spring 2005) to his self proclamation and peaceful confrontation with the administration headed by Felipe Calderon Hinojosa (2007)
- When someone is so lucky to live inside an imaginary world..., the sorrows of this world disappear. As the story flows, reality no longer exists. '90 minutes and I love you' is an urban tale filmed in real time. In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, nothing is what it seems while customers do the laundry.
- On September 11, 1973, the day of the military coup in Chile, a child prodigy of art disappears. His friend, a man fond of his art, tells the short existence of who could be a major genius of painting, decades after his disappearance.
- After I Pick the Fruit is a documentary that follows the lives of five immigrant farm worker women over a ten-year period as they labor in the apple orchards and fields of rural western New York, migrate seasonally to Florida, raise their families, and try to hide from the Bush-era immigration raids that were conducted in response to September 11, 2001. Filmed in New York, Florida, and Mexico, this intimate, bittersweet, feature-length film illuminates a community that is nearly invisible to most Americans, and will change the way you look at our national immigration problem.
- After working hard for years to finally be in charge of investments in her company, a woman in Mexico City discovers that she's being framed for multi-million-dollar fraud in the company as well as murder of her friend and colleague.
- Jesus was sexually abused by a priest when he was an 11 year old boy. As an adult, he decides not only to denounce his aggressor but also to find him and confront him.
- Mexico 2011, In the Dermatology Hospital 'Pedro Lopez' are the last 8 leprosy persons, who was isolated, some by wishes some by force, as an international consensus in 1939. The General Lazaro Cardenas built and gave it for these persons, considered something different and infected, could be cared in a unique way. Its a place where in stead of patients, they recruited inhabitants of a new world, with own rules and habits. Full of extraordinary stories, they took us to know and observe the last sign Of an ancient illness, which someday caused panic and now it seems rather the remember of a blurred past.
- While traveling on vacation in the Mexican jungle, three young friends, witness the murder of a group of indigenous peasants.
- Amado runs a cyber café in a dangerous neighborhood. An old acquaintance brings back his criminal past and Amado seeks redemption from the lifestyle he once had.
- Jackie is a young woman who enjoys helping the needy, but her husband Samuel is not happy about it. A tragic accident leaves him in a coma, so she decides to move on and find love again.
- This is a documentary about the life of 7 street vendors who show themselves and the way they live. Many things are revealed by them and about them such as why are they in the streets, how much they earn, how they ended up there.
- Stories with no relation to each other apart from all of them happen in the city of Monterrey and the only bond between them is love. Each story was directed by students of Tecnológico De Monterrey, Universidad De Monterrey and Universidad Autónoma De Nuevo León.
- A James Bond parody starring 6-11 year old kids.
- Tired of being taken for granted by his wife and 3 daughters, Rodolfo Guerra wakes up one morning and decides not to go to work. Then the craziness begins.
- For various reasons, a group of Nahua migrants from the Huasteca area of Hidalgo state go to the city of Guadalajara, where they now live. This has a great social, cultural and economic impact on Santa Cruz, their community of origin. Several stories are found within this Nahua migration: a teenager who finishes junior high school and drops out to go work in Guadalajara; an experienced woman migrant who has done well in business and now plans to emigrate to the United States; and a young mother who leaves her children with her mother to go work in the city where, finally, she is murdered.
- Luisa is 25 years old and fighting a heroin addiction. Having escaped the city she finds herself seeking repose in a fading beach resort that rests on the lush seaside hills of Veracruz, Mexico.
- One morning, theater actor Ramiro meets a suicidal who claims to be a bird of ill omen. Despite his efforts, the young man dies in front of Ramiro and is stuck with the idea of being infected by bad luck.
- Santiago and Mariana, two twelve year-old friends, one day, while pretending to be detectives, accidentally catch a gang of animal traffickers on video and the game comes true.
- On the way to the party of the year, four friends decide to play an old school prank that lands them in jail and unleashes a chain of events that will unfold throughout the course of one day.
- 1810, Miguel Hidalgo abolishes slavery in Independent Mexico. 1910, John K. Turner publishes "Barbarous Mexico", a book that reveals slave trading in that country. 2010, amid the bicentennial and centennial celebrations of the Independence and Revolution of Mexico respectively, slave trading can still be found.
- Francisco, a man with autism resides secluded, ignored and locked away. He's a burden on his brothers, and decides to flee into the forest. Astounded by its beauty, he soon discovers nature's animosity; while attempting to descend from a cliff, a fall renders him badly wounded. When all hope seemed lost, he encounters an elderly hermit who aids him; once recovered Francisco learns to pick fruit, start fires and bathe in the river. Francisco discovers a new outlook on life in the silence of the forest.
- A young woman spends a night trapped inside a laundromat with a serial killer.
- A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collaborator - Jean Claude Carrière. Carrière predicts that between the house he was born in and the cemetery in which he will end there is a life journey of just 250 meters. "Carrière: 250 Meters" follows him as he reflects on the wealth of global traditions of storytelling, travelling through past and present, across countries and cultures from Paris to New York, Mexico and India and joined by his family, friends and collaborators. A testament to the life and work of an extraordinary man and a key architect in contemporary cinema.
- What if changing the world meant changing the way babies are born? Catching Babies is a 60 minute documentary that intricately weaves stories of mothers and midwives on a journey to bring life into the world. Filmed along the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Catching Babies follows four young women as they embark on toward the ancient profession of midwifery. Catching Babies is a celebration of the power of birth, mothers and midwives.
- Discover the lives, motivations and dreams of a group of female internees at Tepepan, a prison located in the south of Mexico City.
- Leroy Lowe, grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville, dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cell-mate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the enemy, far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a completely different path to salvation.
- A family tries to keep their routine after the father, Juan, suffers a brain stroke. Even though much time has passed, he still struggles to learn how to live, how to get along , and how to keep the harmony within the family. While Juan distracts himself with horror movies, Alicia his wife does it with memories of her glory days as a model. Matías, Juan's only son, struggles to find a place in the midst of this permanent pause.
- The movie is a portrait of the life of a married couple.
- Moving from country to country in South America, reporting from across the drugs frontline and interviewing top-level international politicians this film exposes the human cost of one of the most popular drugs on the London streets. Combining reportage from the drugs front line and interviews with those top-level international politicians who are campaigning to get us in the West to take real responsibility for our drugs problem, Cocaine Unwrapped presents prohibition in a wholly new light.
- A race against time between a man whose son requires urgent treatment and a stockbroker who suddenly lost his investors' money and ruined his own family.
- A group of documentary filmmakers travel to Mexico to try to cross back into America with a group of illegal immigrants.
- Frustrated with their Christian upbringing, 15 men travel to the Alaskan wild on a journey to trash their rules.
- An intimate look at incredible-and increasingly threatened-creatures that a third of the world's food supply depends upon.
- A hard portrait of actual Mexico, a society involved on the cruel war vs drugs. Laws, consumers, dealers and experts give us a clear view about what is happening in this deadly moment.
- The film is based on the true story of how Federico Fellini traveled to Mexico in 1985, guided by a mysterious shaman. Thirty years later, Sofia a young journalist follows his steps and discovers the mysteries of his trip. The film shows the magic and beauty of Mexico as seen by Fellini. This film is based on the story narrated by Fellini himself.
- Metaphor of a small town that hides from death.