CADENA PERPETUA Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1978 DIRECTOR: Arturo Ripstein LENGTH: 88 min SYNOPSIS: Javier Lira is a former criminal who tries to rehabilitate working as a bank collector. His attempts to get away from crime are frustrated when he meets Burro Prieto, an extortionist police whom he knows from long ago.
CALZONZIN INSPECTOR
Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1973 DIRECTOR: Alfonso Arau LENGTH: 120 min SSYNOPSIS: The village of San Garabato is tousled, knowing that an
inspector will come to visit them. By a twist of fate, the outsider Calzonzin is mistaken for the inspector, starting a series of tangles and confusion. Reception, parades, visits to a hospital and a prop prison are organized. Calzonzin, falls for the daughter and the wife of the Mayor. Meanwhile, townspeople, presented their complaints to the inspector, who writes the truth with a reporter, but his letter is intercepted by the postmaster. They discovered Calzonzin is an impostor.
CUARTELAZO Feature
APRODUCTION YEAR: 1977 DIRECTOR: Alberto Isaac LENGTH: 117 min SINOPSIS: Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of Mexico’s history known as Tragic Ten, which begins when General Victoriano Huerta orders for the assassination of President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President Jose Maria Pino Suarez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. A recount of the execution of Huerta, and also that of General Bernardo Reyes, Manuel Mondragon and Felix Diaz.
EL CASTILLO DE LA PUREZA Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1972 DIRECTOR: Arturo Ripstein LENGTH: 110 min SYNOPSIS: The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
EL IMPERIO DE LA FORTUNA Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1985 DIRECTOR: Arturo Ripstein LENGTH: 135 min SYNOPSIS: Dionisio Pinzón is a crier in a village in Mexico. His withered hand has deprived of almost everything and live miserably under his mother shelter, overwhelmed by overlapping grudges. One day comes to San Miguel del Milagro a fair. He is recruited as the hitching screamer in cockfighting.
EL LUGAR SIN LÍMITES Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1977 DIRECTOR: Arturo Ripstein LENGTH: 110 min SYNOPSIS: The life of the characters in this film is set between the
squalor of the brothel in which they live and the oppressive atmosphere that surrounds it: Japonesita and his father, a homosexual nicknamed the Manuela; the trucker Pancho, which both are in love with, and his brother Octavio, who comes to celebrate the purchase of a truck. Seeing how Pancho mistreats his daughter, Manuela tries to entertain him. While Japonesita remember Pancho possessed her before, Manuela seduce Pancho; Octavio teases and hits Manuela, who flees. Pancho and Octavio pursue her in his truck and killed her.
EL RINCÓN DE LAS VÍRGENES Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1972 DIRECTOR: Alberto Isaac LENGTH: 90 min SYNOPSIS: Rural tragicomedy inspired by stories of Juan Rulfo. The action takes place in the late 20s in a Comala, in the State of Colima.
LA PASIÓN SEGÚN BERENICE Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1975 DIRECTOR: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo LENGTH: 99 min SYNOPSIS: Berenice is a woman with a mysterious past. A scar crosses her face and nightmares of fire and horses fill her lonely nights. She might have killed her husband but nobody can be sure. Berenice lives with her godmother, a money lender so fragile that she’s always resting in her bed. The two women live in an almost perpetual seclusion, until one day, at her grandmother’s doctor’s funeral, Berenice meets Rodrigo the doctor’s son, a handsome and free-spirited young man for whom Berenice falls in love.
LOS INDOLENTES Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1977 DIRECTOR: José Estrada LENGTH: 115 min SYNOPSIS: In Mexico’s “Alemanismo”, era of great modernity and economic growth,The Alday family finds itself in serious trouble: stripped of most of their land by the Agrarian Reform of Lazaro Cardenas, their pride forces them to endure their days in an old house, full of lavish objects that are ridiculous vestiges of a lost time.
MARÍA SABINA Documentary
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1979 DIRECTOR: Nicolás Echevarría LENGTH: 80 min SYNOPSIS: Cinematic portrait of the rituals and techniques of celebrated healer Maria Sabina, the priestness of psilocybe mushrooms and the most recognised shaman of Mexico’s Oaxaca regions.
MARIANA, MARIANA Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1985 DIRECTOR: Alberto Isaac LENGTH: 85 min SYNOPSIS: The story takes place in 1940’s Mexico City. A schoolboy (Carlos) falls in love with his best friend’s mother (Mariana). This family is not like the ordinary Mexican families of the time. Although they are not rich, they have many expensive American things, and Carlos is impressed by this. The drama begins when Carlos declares his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.
MIROSLAVA Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1993 DIRECTOR: Alejandro Pelayo LENGTH: 100 min SYNOPSIS: Narration of the tragic story of Miroslava, famous actress of Mexican cinema, that had its glory in the ďŹ fties.
LOS MURMULLOS Short
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1976 DIRECTOR: Rubén Gámez LENGTH: 25 min SYNOPSIS: A critical narrative of the living conditions of the farmers from the town of Juchitepec in the State of Mexico. They give testimony through images of their misery, their land and their vision of life. Defeated, daring not to raise their voices barely murmuring quietly.
RETRATO DE UNA MUJER CASADA Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1979 DIRECTOR: Alberto Bojórquez LENGTH: 92 min SYNOPSIS: Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family and take care of her husband and home, all the while studying for her master’s degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he’s tied by convention. When she has a strange mishap one day, her domestic life is catapulted in a whirl of horror and violence that will tear the fabric of her very existence apart.
UNA CITA DE AMOR Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1956 DIRECTOR: Emilio Indio Fernåndez LENGTH: 86 min SYNOPSIS: Young Soledad, daughter of Mariano, is given to farmer Roman, hated by Mariano, he wants to marry his daughter with Ernesto, rich nephew of the judge. The farmer is going to make a fortune and says goodbye to Soledad at a party, but to dance with her must pay, it is a charity ball. The peasant and the rich squabble. He dies and the farmer has to ee. One day assaults father's house to see Soledad, but is injured and, after dancing with her, dies in his arms.
VIDAS ERRANTES
Feature
PRODUCTION YEAR: 1983 DIRECTOR: Juan Antonio de la Riva LENGTH: 90 min SYNOPSIS: Francisco and his young assistant Guillermo are engaged in a rare work: cross the villages of the Sierra exhibiting films. With the profits that leaves the exhibition, Francisco built a cinema on the outskirts of one of the villages. Meanwhile, Guillermo kidnaps a young Josefina to work with thtem. The fatality is installed when the cinema, which is almost ready, burns because of an oversight of the vigilante. So, Francisco, Guillermo and the projectionists need to start over.