Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
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In December 2005 Toño Zuniga was picked up off the street in Mexico City, Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about. A friend of Toño's contacted two young lawyers, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete, who gained prominence in Mexico when they helped bring about the release of another innocent man from prison. Looking into Toño's case, Roberto and Layda managed to get a retrial--on camera--and enlisted the help of filmmaker...
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Un pintor a punto de quedar ciego se encuentra de manera fortuita con una joven en un burdel en el desierto mexicano. Dos vidas distantes pero paralelas se entretejen con sorprendentes vueltas del destino.
Homero is a painter. Mei is a young girl who has been abandoned by her mother at a brothel. Homero has a difficult time accepting the fact that he is going blind from an inherited condition. He visits his father, who is blind from the same condition,...
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Joaquín Aguirre es un ingeniero que muere después de haberse pasado la mayor parte de su vida buscando los restos de un galeón es-pañol del siglo XVIII que se asegura hundido en el Golfo de México y que guardaría un gran tesoro en su interior. Joaquín lega el barco con el que ha estado buscando el galeón a Juan, un hijo que tuvo en una relación extra-matrimonial. Esto desencadena la ira del resto de sus hijos, que intentarán a toda costa...
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Benjamin Garcia, El Benny, is deported from the U.S., and upon his return to Mexico finds a bleak picture. The violence, corruption and economic crisis plaguing the country have completely devastated the place. Benny, with no other options and to help his family out, gets involved in the drug business, where he finds, for the first time in his life, a prosperous life, full of money, women and violence. In the end, he discovers firsthand that the tempting...
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Sex-deprived Ana is nearly out of her mind with longing until her wild ex-boyfriend Thomas, who has been traveling around Europe, returns and stays in the apartment with Ana and her husband. Across the street live Andrea and Miguel who also have a houseguest, an ex-girlfriend of Miguel's. With these invitations, a sexual and gender war between the characters is unleashed.
Una sofisticada y divertida historia de amor contemporánea contada a través...
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"La Negrada" is the first Mexican feature film about the Afro-Mexican community, filmed entirely with people from different towns around the Costa Chica in Oaxaca. In Mexico, the afro communities represents only 1% of the total population. They have never been acknowledged as an ethnic group, nation or culture, suffering discrimination as an outcast group. "La Negrada" is the first Mexican fiction movie filmed entirely in one of those black communities,...
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"An indigenous language is in peril as its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isauro, had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over fifty years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge to bring the old friends back together and convince them to once again talk to each other, all so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it. However, hidden in the past, in the heart of the jungle, lies a secret...