N/A N/A ( 6.8)

N/A N/A ( 7.432)

When a birthday party takes a tragic turn, its ripples shatter a close-knit community — tearing families, friendships and hearts apart.

CRISIS 2023 ( 10)

A man tries to find a moment of silence amidst the chaos of a busy city and his own troubled mind.

Macadamia 2024

A man re-visits his past by going to the childhood house where he and his brother grew up in.

Xilitla 2010

Xilitla 2010 examines the legacies of modernism and the incomplete modernities encountered in Latin America, through the relics and ruins of surrealism. Made in collaboration with filmmaker Rafael Ortega, Xilitla is named after a small town in Mexico, the location of a garden created by the eccentric British aristocrat Edward James (1907–1984). James was an important collector of surrealist art, and several works that he owned by artists such as Salvador Dalí and Rene Magritte are now in the Tate collection. He spent much of his fortune constructing the garden between 1960 and 1984. It is dominated by fantastical concrete sculptures and unfinished architectural structures which he built among the tropical plants.

Scission N/A ( 4)

Luis tries to lead a normal life since he left his country, but strange events begin to happen from his homeland, submerging him in a sea of doubts where it is impossible for him to differentiate reality from paranoia.

Children’s Game #35: Kluddermor 2022

Children getting into a frightful mess that only parents could sort out: this familiar scenario plays out subversively, for the rescuing ‘Mother’ is just a child. A circle turns into a knot as the kids entangle themselves, still clutching, ever more twistedly, the same hands.* Once paralyzed, the group cries chorally for ‘Mother’ and she appears. With remarkable engineering flair, ‘Mother’ figures out how to unknot the knot without breaking the links of hands, shoving arms over heads and directing legs under and over. Suddenly, like a disentangled string of Christmas lights, the chain becomes circular again.

Children’s Game #28: Nzango 2021

Born in the recent past in school playgrounds and now a national sport, Nzango is a female-only game. The aim is to imitate, or more mysteriously, anticipate, the leg movements of the facing player. The pace is set by both teams singing and clapping in unison, faster and faster. Local variants thrive, ignoring the official rules. This, the girls’ own invention, involves “minus” and “times” signs, the first a mirror image – A’s right leg, B’s left leg – the second a crossed diagonal. And yet all the outsider perceives is a series of lightning confrontations, as pairs, then other formations, hop and kick ecstatically, advance and retreat according to an inapprehensible logic, telepathically improvised, perhaps. What geometry rules the final blur of legs?

Children's Game #23: Step On A Crack 2020

A sprite in a blue pinafore, plimsolls, and white facemask flits through Hong Kong, enclosed in a quicksilver bubble of magic. Streets become the dull, slow backdrop to her vividness. Oblivious to storefronts and curious stares, seeing only the yellow lines and the cracks in the pavement, she snakes and two-steps around seams and lines without loss of élan, chanting spells that shade into vague sounds. “Step on a line, break the devil’s spine, Step on a crack, break the devil’s back, Step in a ditch, your mother’s nose will itch, But if you step in between, everything will be keen!” By igniting her route with meaning, she briefly wrests public space from the commercial values this city lives by.

The Making of Medicina Para Fantasmas 2025

Un banquete en Tetlapayac 2000 ( 5)

"Un banquete en Tetlapayac is a contemporary reconstruction of events surrounding Que viva México! by Sergei Eisenstein, the legendary episode film, shooting of which came to a halt when Eisenstein in 1932 was forced to leave Mexico by lack of money and other problems." - IFFR

Blame Me 1959 ( 5.3)

A Mexican steer rancher goes to Spain to get some bulls he bought but that were never delivered. He meets a flamenco dancer during his stay in Madrid and falls for her.

The Girl at the Inn 1951 ( 5.8)

Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.

Bullfight 1951

The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.

Ronda de estrellas 1938

Two unemployed musicians use a stolen camera to put a film school to catch unsuspecting.

When Faith Moves Mountains 2002 ( 5)

Alÿs’s motto for When Faith Moves Mountains is “Maximum effort, minimum result.” For this epic project the artist invited five hundred volunteers to walk up a sand dune on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, shoveling in unison, thus displacing the dune by a few inches. Demonstrating a ridiculous disproportion between an effort and its effect, the work is a metaphor for Latin American society, in which minimal reforms are achieved through massive collective efforts. Participants in the project gave their time for free, reversing conservative economic principles of efficiency and production. Embracing rumor, urban myth, and oral history, Alÿs aims to make works that continue beyond the duration of the event itself, through stories disseminated by word of mouth.

El barril de amontillado 1950 ( 5.7)

An Italian city, 1860. During the carnival, Fortunato de Bettini mocks his friend Montresor who, humiliated, plans an elaborate and cruel revenge.

Shih 2015 ( 7)

Shih captures the return of Paola Shih to Taiwan to meet with her father after twenty years of separation. Following Paola in her remaking of the relationship and re-adaptation to the taiwanese culture, the film explores the nature of family ties, and its singularities in our modern and globalized world.

Return to the Mist 2016

Upon returning to her mother's birthplace, the filmmaker offers, through a contemplative, intimate, and loving perspective, a glimpse into the daily life of her family and the town of Buenavista, their work and enjoyment, their celebrations and ancestral traditions, all framed by the misty beauty of the Oaxacan mountains.

Return to the Mist 2016

Upon returning to her mother's birthplace, the filmmaker offers, through a contemplative, intimate, and loving perspective, a glimpse into the daily life of her family and the town of Buenavista, their work and enjoyment, their celebrations and ancestral traditions, all framed by the misty beauty of the Oaxacan mountains.

Banda Girls: Who's Your Sugar Daddy? 2008 ( 2)

In this reality-based series, the five feisty Banda Girls (Brenda, Samantha, Celina, Esther and Mary) are forced to go looking for a sugar daddy when Brenda's wealthy boyfriend asks her to marry him and she says "no." Fortunately, they've got the assets to help them find another guy … in fact, they could end up with several. The soundtrack includes songs by Mexican artists such as El Mayo de la Sierra, Banda Jerez and more.

Sing (to me) 2021

A man struggles with his condition of singing every time he talks, but finds a glimmer of hope when he comes across a woman who has the same condition as him.

The Sea Between The Houses 2020 ( 5)

Jose is a biologist who suddenly needs to return to his hometown because his mother has passed away. She left him a large inheritance with a very important message: He must accomplish the expectations she had for him in life. Jose falls in love with Estela, his teenage neighbor, whose father has serious money problems and is also terribly sick.