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The most exciting new features and documentaries from Mexico's hottest new directors.

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Blue EyelidsMy Life Inside
(Country: Mexico; Director: Ernesto Contreras; Writer: Ernesto Contreras; Cast: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Tiaré Scanda, Luisa Huertas)
A pair of lonely people come together in offbeat romance.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Francisco Franco; Writer: Francisco Franco, María Renée Prudencio; Cast: Irene Azuela, Angel Onésimo Nevares, Claudette Maillé)
A woman caring for her mother (a former pop star dying of cancer) develops a crush on her teenage brother, but so has everybody else/

(Country: Mexico; Director: Rodrigo Plá; Writer: Rodrigo Plá, Laura Santullo; Cast: Mario Zaragoza, Diego Cataño, Memo Dorantes)
Paternal affection takes a twisted turn in this epic take on devotion and indoctrination set during the religious purges that followed the 1928 Mexican Revolution.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Gerardo Naranjo; Writer: Gerardo Naranjo; Cast: Fernando Becerril, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Diana Garcia, Martha Claudia Moreno, Miriana Moro, Emilio Valdés)
A young couple's relationship is disturbed by the unexpected appearance of an ex lover, while a suicidal officer worker's plans are disrupted by a teenager.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Juan Manuel Sepulveda; Writer: Juan Manuel Sepulveda)
Documentary following the experiences of Mexicans desperate to cross the border into the US so they can make money to send back to their families.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Writer: Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Markovitch; Cast: Diego Cataño, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara II, Yemil Sefani)
After a teenager crashes his car, he goes in search of help, revealing trauma in his life along the way.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Everardo González; Writer: Everardo González)
Documentary about Efrain Alcaraz, aka El Carrizosa, one of Mexico's most famous thieves, and the secret service agent, known as Dracula, who pursued him.

(Country: Mexico; Director: Lucía Gajá; Writer: Lucía Gajá; Cast: Rosa Estela Olvera)
Documentarian tracks an illegal Mexican immigrant as she is tried for murder.

(Country: Mexico, US; Director: Alejandro Springall; Writer: Jorge Goldenberg, Alejandro Springall; Cast: Blanca Guerra, Martha Roth, Sergio Kleiner, Guillermo Murray, Martin LaSalle, Raquel Pankowsky, David Ostrosky, Emilio Savinni)
As a family sit Shivah over the body of their patriarch, two spirits vie for his soul and are shocked by the behaviour of his relatives. An exploration of what it means to be Jewish in modern Mexico.


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