Movies: Fomento Al Cine Mexicano Focine

A horror story that intertwines four tales on a fishing island in Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, where an evil lake spirit haunts the inhabitants, casting a dark shadow over their lives....

Luz de Luna became a truck driver to escape a violent marriage. On the road, she faces labor exploitation and various forms of violence that often make her question her path. Alongside her, other truck drivers seek comfort and strength at rest stops ...

In mid-90s Mexico City, five young siblings are left in the care of their grandmother after their parents suddenly disappear. As they fight to survive, the line between reality and something darker starts to blur. The grandmother, haunted by eerie vi...

Socorro is a lawyer obsessed with finding the soldier who killed her brother during the 1968 student massacre in Mexico. Fifty years later, she receives the clue that leads her to set up an absurd plan of revenge, putting her heritage, her family, an...

Dalia (42), discovers that her husband has vanished without a trace. As her life and her job as a subway driver begin to collapse; the violent indifference of her environment engulfs her in a dark tunnel that seems to lead nowhere....

In the almost deserted town of La Raya, a mysterious refrigerator appears out of nowhere. Sotera Santos and her friend Eric see an opportunity to make a fortune by selling it. However, the fridge soon starts unveiling strange and enigmatic phenomena ...

During the summer, thirteen-year-old Sofia moves to the country house, where her cousin Cristina is waiting for her to spend the vacations. During these days of games and discoveries, the two will be immersed in a love triangle with a man almost twen...

A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director delv...

Fabiola, 38 weeks pregnant, is leading her U16 boys' basketball team in the Mexico City finals. As the game heats up, her water breaks, leaving everyone wondering what will happen next....

The teacher of this second grade classroom, Celeste, has been transferred to another school and has a few days to spend with the elementary school students who started with her. Together they live the month of September, full of movement, changes in ...

Under the imposing snow-capped mountains of Utah, a Mexican family lives with the uncertainty of a loved one's disappearance....

A graffiti artist and a punk band singer meet amidst a profound social crisis. With revolutionary and idealistic visions for a fairer world, they bond over music and street art, using them as their weapons. Innocent and determined, they demand justic...

Manuel is desperate to save his wife from death. A mysterious man appears to him one day at church, convincing him to go to a Healer who can help her....

Set of stories of couples who sign either their love or death sentence. Intimate, specific and diverse situations that give a panorama of the vast terrain of love relationships. Life is not the opposite of death, but rather its intermediate point. Th...

40 years ago in Mexico, a group of women filmmakers gathered to make films dealing with taboo subjects, gender violence, rape, feminicide, clandestine abortion, labor discrimination. They called themselves “Cine Mujer” and were active as a collective...

Few know José Ignacio Solórzano—a balding man with everyday troubles like money and marriage. But everyone knows Jis, the beloved cartoonist whose humor and art have left a mark on the country. Mollusk tells the story of both, exploring how creativit...

Daughters resemble their mothers. That is their curse....

Do we belong to a place, or does a place belong to us? Like a skein that unravels, this question unfolds the essayistic thread of the film, going through a series of relationships, from the link between Tzotzil women and nature to a reflection on one...

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Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the distance between COVID-19 patients and their family members through letters, that eventually turn into...