Dir. Jesús Muñoz
Guadalupe: the making of a nation
This documentary delves into history to find the origins of the Virgen de Guadalupe, one of the most powerful symbols in Mexico and a fundamental part of the country’s identity.
Dir. Everardo González
Wilderness
Wilderness explores ten different deserts scattered around the world to show how in the most inhospitable places, humans, animals and nature find ways to build community.
Dir. Luciana Kaplan
Rush hour
Three people from Mexico City, Los Angeles and Istambul spend half of their days on the way to work and begin to wonder if it is possible to change the course of their lives.
Dir. Everardo González
The open sky
The Open Sky follows the transformation of Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who used to be a conservative priest and became an international symbol in the fight for human rights in El Salvador.
Dir. Everardo González
Drought
During dry season, the inhabitants of Cuates de Australia abandon their town to search for water while they wait for the rainy season and are able to come back home.
Dir. Ilán Lieberman
Beno's son
Ilán goes on a trip to Mexico with his family to revisit the life and death of his father, Beno Lieberman. They take this opportunity to revisit their family’s secrets and the richness of traditional Mexican music.
Dir. Rodrigo Guardiola & Gabriel Cruz Rivas
Zoe Panoramas
Zoe Panoramas is an intimate portrayal of the band that follows them during one of their career’s most important years and is filmed in a striking cinéma vérité style.
Dir. Juan Obregón & Roberto Garza
Torre x Torre
At 21 years old, when Carlos Torre Repetto seemed destined to turn into the new World Chess Champion, he suffered a nervous breakdown that ended his career.
Dir. Everardo González
The old thieves
The Old Thieves portrays a generation of robbers who operated in Mexico City during the 1970s. We learn about their codes of honor, their relationship with police officers and the consequences this world of loyalty and betrayal brings.
Dir. Everardo González
El Paso
In this documentary, we follow a group of journalists who have been exiled from their own country after being threatened by criminals and are now looking for political asylum.
Dir. Lorenzo Hagerman
Fifaliana
At 16 years old, Zaevo lives in isolation because of a severe injury caused during her first childbirth, until the arrival of a team of doctors that offers her the chance to reclaim her life in Southern Madagascar.
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Dir. Everardo González
Devil's freedom
Devil’s Freedom explores the way drug trafficking violence has deeply changed fear, absence and day-to-day life in Mexico through the testimonies of both victims and victimizers.
Dir. Julien Elie
Dark suns
Julien Elie’s documentary travels across Mexico’s states to show how violence and impunity can turn every person into a victim.
Dir. Trisha Ziff
Witkin & Witkin
Witkin & Witkin portrays the twin brothers Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin, two visual artists who revisit their bond, differences and creative trajectories at the end of their lives.
Dir. Lorenzo Hagerman
Still here
Still Here is an intimate journey around the world to explore how life is percieved by people who happen to have one thing in common: they are 90 years old.
Dir. Carlos Hagerman
No place like home
This documentary portrays the life of Óscar Hagerman and his wife Dora, a couple that have dedicated their entire work to social architecture and education. We learn all about them as they try to teach their legacy to a whole new generation.
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Dir. Talal Derki
Of fathers and sons
A documentary about two young brothers raised by a radical Islamist; one embraces the jihadist way, while the other prefers to go back to school.
Dir. Trisha Ziff
Gerry Adams: a Ballymurphy man
A portrayal of Gerry Adams, an important politician during Northern Ireland’s transition from conflict to peace thanks to the Belfast Agreement, who overcame censorhip, public persecution by the media and several assassination attempts.
Dir. Ibrahim Nash’at
Hollywoodgate
A documentary about the origin of an insurgent militia formed by the Taliban after the United States abandoned Afghanistan. This group would later turn into a new military regime.
Dir. Rodolfo Santa María Troncoso
The last journey
When a famous thanatologist is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he must face his own death and apply his own treatments to himself.
Dir. Gabriela Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Ways to traverse a territory
A family of Tsotsil women made up of shepherdesses and weavers, tells us about their deep bond with Earth and their ancestral mountains to build a film about memory, identity, and territory.
Dir. Ismael Vásquez Bernabé
The weaver's songs
In San Pedro Amuzgos, Zoila, Donato, and Lorenzo intertwine their stories to create a portrayal that manages to showcase tradition, music and the ties between parents and their children.
Dir. Alana Simões
Cracked
A group of students face the farewell of their teacher, Celeste, during a month full of discovery and emotions inside of a classroom located in a Mexican small town.
Dir. Luciana Kaplan
The invisible contract
The Invisible Contract follows the day-to-day lives of the women who clean Mexico City, highlighting job insecurity and the way they are invisibilized, intertwining documentary and fiction.
Dir. Eva Vitija
Loving Highsmith
Loving Highsmith reveals the intimate life and contradictions of Patricia Highsmith, author of some remarkable suspense novels that defined the twentieth century.
Dir. Trisha Ziff
Oaxacalifornia: the return
Oaxacalifornia: The Return follows the life of a migrant family 25 years later to explore the complexities of their identity, belonging, and uprooting.
Dir. Leonor Maldonado
Matamoros ejido 20
In Matamoros, there is a group of men who come from marginalized neighborhoods and finds a way to overcome stereotypes and build an identity through dance.
Dir. Pavel Giroud
The Padilla affair
After being put in jail by the Cuban government, poet Heberto Padilla reappears with a shocking public criticism that reveals the tensions between literature, power, and censorship in Cuba during 1971.
Dir. Juliana Fanjul
Radio silence
In this documentary we watch Carmen Aristegui’s aftermath as she is fired for exposing a corruption case on the radio and continues her fight for free journalism in a country continuously shaken by violence and impunity.
Dir. Anabel Rodríguez
Once upon a time in Venezuela
In Congo Mirador, a community of fishermen is threatened by sedimentation and a political crisis. A Chavista leader, an opposing teacher, and a little girl face their community’s disappearance in the middle of an election.
Dir. Nettie Wild
A place called Chiapas
A Place Called Chiapas portrays the uprising of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional in 1994 through interviews of its main representatives, such as Deputy Commander Marcos, Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, Zapatistas, soldiers and members of paramilitary groups.