Gabino Rodríguez

A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped. Rebellious tomboy Yessica is frequently in trouble at school and at home, with its lower middle-class limitations. She is always at odds with her mother, bullying stepfather, and despicable stepbrother, Jorge. Then Jorge strikes a deal with a friend, h

Gabino works as moving-truck driver and lives with his mother with whom he has a distant relationship... He drives through Mexico and crosses the stories of its inhabitants: strange, funny, sentimental or dramatic stories. (imdb)

Summer of Goliath is a documentary/fiction hybrid that narrates various stories of the people of the town of Huilotepec in rural Mexico. Teresa's husband has disappeared and she believes he has left her for another woman. Gabino, her son, is a soldier who searches cars at the side of a country road, where very few cars pass by. He hopes one day him and Alberto, his soldier partner, will get machine guns to further intimidate the people driving by. (imdb)

Drifting from fiction to documentary, Greatest Hits tells the story of Emilio, a man in his fifties who shows up at the family home after fifteen years of absence. His wife and his twenty-eight year old son receive him with bitterness and confusion. After a couple of days they decide to kick him out, only to find out that he has left on his own accord. (mubi.com)

Negus, Chale, Sapo, and Chata are four typical, bored, apathetic teenagers from one of the most dangerous areas in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico's Colonia Guerrero. But unlike most teens, they have decided to do something about their situation: hold up a megaplex cinema. (cinando.com)

A young student, Mati, breaks up an constantly humiliates Gabino, who is devoted to her... until he gets the opportunity to make her pay for her snubs. (imdb)

The story of Jacinto Medina, a young Mexican herder who is bored with his life herding sheep and dreams of moving north. Jacinto decides to leave his life behind and embark upon a personal odyssey when he stumbles upon a mysterious keychain. Will the key chain lead Jacinto to his own paradise or will the journey be all for nothing? (The FreeStyle Life)

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes. (imdb)

A poor man in his mid seventies lives alone in a house near the beach in Mexico. He doesn't have the land deed, so he ends up losing the property and his house gets demolished. He starts losing his mind. He embarks on a journey to the mountains wandering through the forest and into his memories.

On his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, and start playing with its citizens' lives. (imdb)

The last days in the life of an old forgotten local hero. (imdb)

On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. (festivalscope)

Boldly transforms mundane, realist observations at a rural Mexican schoolhouse into fantasy and a sly comment on childhood, rituals, and race. (imdb)

A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village. (imdb)

1920, on the border between Mexico and Belize. Deep in the Mayan jungle, a lawless territory where myths abound, a group of Mexican gum workers cross paths with Agnes, a mysterious young Belizean woman. Her presence incites tension among the men, arousing their fantasies and desires. Filled with new vigor, they face their destiny, without knowing that they have woken up Xtabay, a legendary being that lurks in the heart of the jungle. (Rubén Imaz)

Between the Popocatepetl and the Iztaccíhuatl a day before the war; Maria, forced to marry a bandit, escapes into the woods with El Toro, fleeing her destiny; Rosario, in love with a murdered general, watches her grave on the slopes of a volcano. (mubi)

Ulises is robbed in the subway. Losing his wallet becomes a personal tragedy. Elvira has also suffered a terrible loss, too. A random encounter will join them and new hope will arise in them, until Ulises finds the one who stole from him. (imdb)