Marta Aura
2021
4 Moons
Sergio Tovar Velarde
Antonio Velázquez, Alejandro de la Madrid
Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
4 Moons
Arráncame la Vida
Roberto Sneider
Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Tear This Heart Out
Los motivos de Luz
Felipe Cazals
Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alonso Echánove
Luz is in jail, accused of murdering her own children. Her husband and her mother-in-law say she killed them in cold blood. Dr. Rebollar tries to help the woman, but she refuses to remember anything. Luz thinks of jail as the purgatory: it's only one step to reach the Heaven.
Luz's Motives
The Queen of the Night
Arturo Ripstein
Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alberto Estrella
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
The Queen of the Night
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Agustín Díaz Yanes
Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money.
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
Vaho
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci
Aldo Estuardo, Roberto Mares
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.
Becloud
Ángel de fuego
Dana Rotberg
Evangelina Sosa, Roberto Sosa
In a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
Angel of Fire
El evangelio de las maravillas
Arturo Ripstein
Francisco Rabal, Katy Jurado
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Divine
El día menos pensado
Rodrigo Ordoñez
Marta Aura, Fernando Becerril
What would happen if the world's largest city ran out of clean water? The situation is portrayed through the eyes of a mature couple who are reluctant to leave their home and who defend their last drops of water at gunpoint.
El día menos pensado
Golpe de suerte
Marcela Fernández Violante
Marta Aura, Bruno Bichir
A bureaucrat gets a house and even a car on credit thanks to the support of a compadre who is a union leader, but then has difficulty paying because he is fired in a job cut despite the many years he has been working.
Lucky Break
El carnaval de Sodoma
Arturo Ripstein
Marta Aura, María Barranco
In a seedy brothel, their frustrations parade: A poet who has never published, a revolutionary who came late to history, a provocative angel, a bureaucrat with delusions of a dancer, a greedy Chinese man and his timorous wife, Monica, a whore with low professional esteem, a group of prostitutes of dubious sensuality and, finally, a priest with a stench of holiness and another with redeeming instincts. But a stranger with the air of a princess appears, and upsets the balance of the establishment.
Crazy Carnival
