Ángeles Cruz

Desperate for a baby and burdened by family and societal expectations, a woman fakes a pregnancy and gets tangled in a crime.

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and depressed in the country where he is supposed to belong. While rebuilding an old motorcycle with Don Memo, a retired motorcycle racer, with whom he is forced to work, he will discover where his real home is.

Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.

A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.

Juana is a woman driven by an unshakable sense of duty who delves into infamous crimes against women, giving herself entirely to the pursuit of truth. Each revelation carries weight and each step forward increases the tension, drawing the viewer into a world where obsession, courage, and vulnerability collide.

Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.

A lonely trans woman gains popularity in her town due to her clairvoyant powers. These gifts become relevant when their coastal city is besieged by disappearances and mass graves. She must decide in favor of whom to use these powers.

Alex, a non-binary person, becomes pregnant and seeks an abortion with support from their aunt Salome, a traditional doctor.

An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

Mateo loses his shadow when making a documentary in an indigenous community. He enters a magical and unknown world, losing the conviction to continue living in the city.

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.

A devastating earthquake hits Oaxaca and causes hundreds to fall victims to its effects. The drastic physical effects are felt in Mexico while across the globe its emotional effects are felt in Finland. This seismic movement has caused an emotional tremor in the lives of the Muxes.

As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions.

In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.

Rita Patiño, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was found by a human rights organization inside a Kansas psychiatric hospital, where she had been involuntarily confined, for 12 years, despite the fact that the hospital authorities were never able to determine who was this woman, where did she come from, or what language she spoke. After the consequences of confinement and medical negligence, Rita returned to Mexico, where she lives with Juanita, her niece, and primary caregiver, in a context of precarious economic possibilities. A moving portrait of the lives of these two Tarahumara women, questioning the multiple forms of racism and discrimination that indigenous women in Mexico and the United States face.

Consuelo is the mother of a disappeared young woman, when she witnesses the clandestine burial of a girl by members of the state police, she decides to unearth the body to give it a better burial in the town's cemetery with the help of her brother Armando.

A novel by Monica Zak, based on a true story, inspired this 1994 Danish-Guatemalan coproduction, a political thriller about Guatemala.

This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.

ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.

On an imaginary island, Gloria Zamora, a working mother, unleashes her true nature as money and power enter her life, bringing an entire town under her control. Her daughter, Trinidad, narrates the story, judging her mother’s malice through her inner monologue. Meanwhile, in Spain, actress Rocío Aldama, embodying Sara Montiel, chases her dream of success, as two worlds intertwine in a web of coincidences and misfortunes.

Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.

A woman who escapes an overwhelming reality into a world of nightmares, by eating the forbidden fruit of Paradise's Tree of Eternal Life; a very frustrated man, both in his professional and love life, whose serial killer dreams may become a reality; and an autobiographical documentary on the director's healing process of a terminal cancer. A film divided in three chapters: heaven, hell and the world.

Tamara, a woman with a mental disability, tries to return a borrowed baby to his parents, but she can't remember where she found him.

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

12-year-old Sira lives in a hidden home in Barcelona's urban park. After finding an enchanted necklace, she discovers a magical realm mirroring her emotions and must balance both worlds to restore harmony.

12-year-old Sira lives in a hidden home in Barcelona's urban park. After finding an enchanted necklace, she discovers a magical realm mirroring her emotions and must balance both worlds to restore harmony.

Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.

Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.

Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.

A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.

On an imaginary island, Gloria Zamora, a working mother, unleashes her true nature as money and power enter her life, bringing an entire town under her control. Her daughter, Trinidad, narrates the story, judging her mother’s malice through her inner monologue. Meanwhile, in Spain, actress Rocío Aldama, embodying Sara Montiel, chases her dream of success, as two worlds intertwine in a web of coincidences and misfortunes.

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.

Archangel is a fifty year old peasant facing accelerating vision loss. Before total darkness overtakes him, he needs to find a nursing home for Patrocinia, an elderly woman from his community that is totally dependant on him.

Archangel is a fifty year old peasant facing accelerating vision loss. Before total darkness overtakes him, he needs to find a nursing home for Patrocinia, an elderly woman from his community that is totally dependant on him.