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At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the crops to bear fruit magically, but for the boy to live, he must be fed human blood.
A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to life. When does the image of the accident become the object of desire? Following the footsteps of Metinides and the work of contemporary tabloid photographers, we discover Mexico City through a narrative of crime scenes and accidents; rubbernecking though Metinides’ Gaze.
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
The story of a town at the mercy of a landscape in transformation; standing on the brink of an encroaching reality, one in which the age-old fears of the inhabitants are being reproduced. A hamlet has survived, perched in a remote location where its children can grow up and the elderly can die and stay there.
Diego dreams of being a soccer player while he sleeps. In his dream, his homework and the demands of sports bureaucracy prevent him from finding the ball, so he decides to try out for another club. However, he takes the wrong bus, which drops him off at an old National School, which has been transformed into a children's party house. There, he becomes trapped by Beba, its manager, who, in order to take complete control of the fundraising, forces him to work for food and commit a crime: killing Raúl, the business boss.
In a modern world, Cupid tries to make certain characters fall in love with his accurate arrow, but they prove to him that they don't need the mischievous little angel to choose their soul mate.
