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After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.

A family lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. Although in an open marriage, their relationship begins to crumble when Esther falls in love with an American horse-breaker and Juan is unable to control his jealousy.

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico.

Emina, a single mother with a sick son, begins a journey searching a Tarahumara healer who lives in the enigmatic mountain range of Chihuahua.

Five intertwined stories. A couple of lovers stays 24 hours under the sheets emulating Yoko Ono and John Lennon. A well to do girl is trapped in an elevator with a messenger and an accountant, with whom she falls in love. A group of writers get drunk with mezcal in a van, recalling their eighties times. A psychoanalyst locks herself in the bathroom to commit suicide and an executive and mother hides in the brooms closet of her office to heal her broken heart with wine. They are related with each other and communicate with their cellphones.

Siblings Dylan and Andrea set off with their new friends on a marvelous journey of discovery in search of long lost pirate loot.

Fede suffers from morbid obesity and lives enclosed among four walls. When his brother-in-law Ramón shows him a camera, Fede also wants one. During a trip to the camera shop he meets Paulo, a lonely teenager who loves comic books. The three of them form a friendship that completely changes their lives. Walking Distance is a urban fairy-tale about Fede, a man who weighs 200kg, which is causing him difficulties to move around his house. When he finds an old photographic film, he decides to have it developed and thus to go out of his house. In the photographic lab Fede meets Paulo, a solitary comics lover who sells him a used camera. While spending time with his brother-in-law Ramon and Paulo, Fede discovers that photography is more than just a hobby. A friendship between the three men grows, changing their lives forever.

Mickey Cundapí, a Mexican video blogger, is in search of her sexual identity in a homophobic environment and as a celebrity in the digital age.

Framed by a corrupt Mexican police force and denied an interpreter, two Indigenous inmates finally reveal in their own language the tragic story they couldn't tell a judge as they cling to vivid memories of their loved ones.

A profile of the soldiers fighting on the front lines of the war between Mexican authorities and the country's drug cartels.

A drama about a young woman forced to take care of her alcoholic grandmother.

Tells the story of a teenager who dreams of dressing up as a woman in a fishing village in the Mexican state of Nayarit.

A provocative meditation that captures the brutal beauty of the U.S./ Mexico Border.

On an increasingly militarized border, an exodus of Mexicans and Central Americans is trying to cross a desert where thousands have died in search of the American dream. In this same territory, the last Tohono O'otham, the desert people, resist a diaspora that has put them on the brink of their demise. A thousand-year witness to exoduses and diasporas, the desert contemplates these two nomadic forces fighting against their destiny.

'The Naked Room' shows a whole world without leaving a single space: the examination room in a children's hospital in Mexico City. Listening to children, their parents and the doctors during consultations allows us to have a more profound and complex view of our social reality and of human nature.

After breaking up with his girlfriend and without a stable job, Laif faces his new life with what he has left: a great ability to do the opposite of what is right.

Ciudad Neza and the great metropolis. The movements of Pablo el Podrido Hernandez intertwine the stories of Cienfuegos, Rafa Punk, Benjamin el ostras, Moroco, Buho, and others who are no longer with us.

Andres, aged 35, leads a quiet life, he has a girlfriend named Isabel he plans to marry, and lives in Mexico, with no other family than his mother Clara, who years ago fled there from the Spanish dictatorship. One day by chance, Andres finds out he has a grandfather who lives in a village in Galicia. This news so moves him, that he decides to drop everything and travel to Spain to reconstruct his own past and meet Justino, his grandfather.

In a last attempt to get closer to her only grandfather, María seeks to understand how love is lived in her Tzotzil culture, trying to unite her two worlds.

In 1979 José Efraín Ríos Montt became a reborn Christian. He was offering a sermon when a group of soldiers burst into his Christian school, and asked him to lead a military coup in 1982. Francisco Chavez Raymundo and his sister were small children when Rios' political actions annihilated their community. In March, 2013 the lives of Francisco Chavez and Rios Montt converge in the same space. Rios is called upon to testify before Guatemalan justice and is confronted by a group of Mayan Ixiles, orphans and widows of the war, Francisco is one of them.

Art is a freedom for those who make it and for those who look at it. A freedom that ends when the violence starts. In Mexico, every day eleven women are murdered and in more than ninety percent of the cases impunity prevails. Through the testimony of seven women, this documentary essay reflects on feminicide and the destruction that this leaves a country and its culture. Because in times of horror, art cannot be the same, every time a woman is murdered, a museum or a library collapses in the world.