Arturo Ripstein

"An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.

Fresh from serving eighteen years in jail for shooting a man in self-defense, Juan Sayago comes back to his hometown to start life anew and reunite with old flame Mariana. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"An austere Western that kicks up a slowly blinding storm of dust, regret and vengeance..." - Robert Abele, **The Los Angeles Times*** *"A gem of a vintage Mexican-Western that feels its moral quandaries deeply..." - John DeFore,...

"Historia de Dionisio Pinzón, anunciador de palenques, y de un regalo que le cambia la vida; un gallo moribundo. Tras la muerte de su madre y la recuperación del gallo, éste hace ganar dinero a Dionisio en los palenques. La fortuna parece sonreírle, y más aún cuando la mujer que ama accede a casarse con él".

A young woman falls in love with her professor, who is a few years older than she is, and becomes a heroine of the boarding school where she studies. Lucero Sandoval es una joven que está recluida en un internado, donde se enamorada de un profesor que llega a dar clases al internado logrando una excelente comunicación con las niñas.

"Through the character of a transvestite who has fathered a daughter with a local prostitute, this penetrating melodrama examines the sexual ambiguity, repression, and prejudice of a small Mexican town"--Container.