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Violent Butterflies 2024
A graffiti artist and a punk band singer meet amidst a profound social crisis. With revolutionary and idealistic visions for a fairer world, they bond over music and street art, using them as their weapons. Innocent and determined, they demand justice, but their defiance attracts the wrath of three corrupt policemen. After beating him and kidnapping her, they ignite the unimaginable fury of someone who has nothing left to lose.

Perseverance: A Documentary Essay On Tomás Sánchez 2024
A portrait of Tomás Sánchez, a leading contemporary Latin American artist, showcasing his life, work, and profound reflections. The presentation highlights his remarkable artistic achievements and the deep meditative qualities of his art.

Cracked 2024
The teacher of this second grade classroom, Celeste, has been transferred to another school and has a few days to spend with the elementary school students who started with her. Together they live the month of September, full of movement, changes in direction and revelations, in the endearing intimacy of a classroom in a small town in Jalisco, Mexico.

Town Of La Raya 2024
In the almost deserted town of La Raya, a mysterious refrigerator appears out of nowhere. Sotera Santos and her friend Eric see an opportunity to make a fortune by selling it. However, the fridge soon starts unveiling strange and enigmatic phenomena to those who approach it. As Sotera grapples with these unsettling occurrences, she must also face the painful reality that her mother might not return to take her to the United States, and that perhaps her departure from La Raya is not yet meant to be.

Cen's Piñata 2024
Cen, a friendly panda, must fight the devil himself, who has stolen his piñata, and thus, the chance to have a great Christmas

Till Your Soul Dances 2024
Alma, a middle-aged woman, really wants to attend dance classes. However, her busy daily routine of caring for her sick mother Gladys and the lack of cooperation from her brother Rubén prevent her from doing so.

A Fishermen's Tale 2024
A horror story that intertwines four tales on a fishing island in Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, where an evil lake spirit haunts the inhabitants, casting a dark shadow over their lives.

The Amazons 2024
Nancy offers an intimate portrait of the invisible battles a woman faces in her quest to feel whole after surviving breast cancer. She seeks ways to challenge ignorance, machismo, and societal taboos surrounding the female body, all while navigating the lasting effects of her experience and redefining her own sense of femininity in the process.

My chest is full of sparks 2024
My father dies. Days later, my mother escapes to Turkey to meet her secret Facebook lover. I suggest to my mother that we communicate through video letters. My mother, who gave up singing to raise me, finds freedom for the first time away from home. The video correspondences reveal our attempts to see each other through a shaky emotional journey. Alone, in the midst of filming this movie, I realize that I want to transition gender and change my name. An extraordinary journey of self-discovery, a mother and a child who always wanted to be more.

The Last Journey 2024
Dr. Federico attends the people with whom he shared his life, now septuagenarians with degenerative diseases, he tries to convince them to end their lives with dignity, like hundreds of patients he has helped to die. Not all of them understand him, nor share his postulates, but now they will have to accompany one of them in his last days.

The Freedom of Fierro 2024
After 40 years of wrongful imprisonment on death row, César is finally released and must rebuild his life. Having spent nearly his entire life in the Polunsky Unit, a prison known for its extreme isolation, he arrives in Mexico ready to embark on a journey of healing. Confronted with his own limitations and the challenges of a new beginning, César is resolute in his quest to discover what true freedom means.

A Revolution 2023
Mariana works in a call center. Her days are marked by insults from angry clients and long commutes in public transport without seeing daylight. After the sudden death of a coworker, she meets Irene, who begins sending her love poems. As she falls in love for the first time, Mariana slowly becomes immune to the hostile world around her, allowing herself to break her routine just a little.

Highway Nomads 2023
Luz de Luna became a truck driver to escape a violent marriage. On the road, she faces labor exploitation and various forms of violence that often make her question her path. Alongside her, other truck drivers seek comfort and strength at rest stops and makeshift diners along the Mexican highways, all striving to keep moving forward.

Phantom Love 2023
Evy and Quiti share with us the remnants of their relationship as they navigate their lives in solitude. They are the last two inhabitants of a ghost town in the Sonora Mountains, in northern Mexico.

Pola Weiss 2023
The inspiring life and untimely death of a Mexican artist who, ahead of her time, saw the darkness in the light of the screen and responded by transforming it into art.

Say Goodbye Release date not available
In the frigid expanse of Utah’s mountains, a family grieves a husband and father gone missing. Rosa, Sol, and young Javier cling to each other’s warmth, their love a fragile flame against the harsh, silent wilderness that looms as a constant reminder of their loss—and of the lingering questions surrounding his mysterious disappearance.

Sacred Beast Release date not available
As Vero confronts her mother’s approaching death, her life spirals into the surreal, entangled with figures from Mexican folklore and encounters with Death itself. Haunted and inspired, she’s pulled into a journey where art and reality blur, searching for meaning in the face of loss.

All The Birds At Night Release date not available
Pablo and Lucía, bound by a shared past, enter their first months of theater studies with high hopes—only for a single night to unravel everything. At a party, Lucía disappears from Pablo's life, leaving him grappling with her absence amidst friends, family, and the echoes of their dreams. As he drifts through memories and familiar places, Pablo begins to understand that Lucía saw the world with a unique insight, challenging him to rebuild his own path in the face of loss and rediscovery.

National Stationery Release date not available
Explores the history of kraft paper in Mexico, a material crucial to the country’s modernization. Once used to wrap cement for state-sponsored construction projects, this resilient paper now survives only in fragments—trees, objects, and the memories of the workers who produced it. Through interviews and nostalgic imagery, the story reflects on Mexico’s industrial past and the faded infrastructure that shaped its modernity.

January The 28th Release date not available
In Culiacán, Sinaloa, 11-year-olds Fabi, Josué, and Francisco bond over shared struggles in their elementary school and use a film workshop to express the violence that surrounds them. Six years later, they reunite to reflect on their experiences and the unsettling normalization of violence in their lives, exploring its impact on their futures.

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