María Rojo

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

Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America (imdb)

Based on the Nobel Prize Winner's novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood and the connection between them (imdb)

A film student videotapes her tryst with an ex-boyfriend - unbeknownst to him.

October 2, 1968 in Mexico City. There's only ten days for the Olympic Games and a small student's revolt has turned into a major political turmoil. A meeting will be carry out that day in Tlatelolco (the largest housing complex in the city) and the situation is extremely tense. (imdb)

In this modern Mexican crime drama, two handsome young private detectives are hired to investigate some possible criminal goings-on at a large estate owned by a wealthy widow by the name of Dona Josefina. There's one catch, however; Dona Josefina is very "open minded", and so her guests are artistic, decadent, and homosexual. In order to get an invitation, our two investigators must pretend to be gay! (imdb)

Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures. (imdb)

Benny Garcia is deported from the United States. Back home he realizes drug dealing had changed his town and his brother died after getting involved. Against his former wish he also ends involved in the narco business with tragic and "humorous" results. A black comedy that depicts Mexican current problems with organized crime.

After being arrested for polyandry, Esmeralda tells the story of how she came to have so many husbands.

A vagabond named Candelario ends up working at don Lázaro's inn, becaming an essential employee. But Candelario starts having an affair with don Lázaro's wife. It is only a matter of time before don Lázaro finds out...

Pedro (Humberto Zurita) commands an guerrilla group. In a failed attack on a senior government official, the rebels abduct Pablo (Manuel Ojeda), who is Pedro's former party colleague. The guerrillas are besieged in a safe house and have to deliberate on the fate of Pablo. (imdb)

A student needs to deliver a short film as a homework, which has to be shot in just one sequence. He writes an erotic scene and invites an older woman to act in his project ?The problem? The older woman is not just a friend, is a very close relative. (imdb)

A woman who waits for her son to return not know where he is or if he even is alive. She shares her apartment with a young co worker who falls in love with the son. Questions about the whereabouts and life or death of the son begin to be brought up as the woman falls ill. What does it all mean? The son? The stories?

This Danish omnibus film is made up of 20 shorts by a group of international directors. The title represents a play on words, aside from its obvious sensational implications (which is used ironically - almost nothing in the film apart from some incidental nudity), the "everything" refers to the sheer number of topics at hand, with filmmakers exploring themes from national identity to ornithology, to foreign travel to Vietnam and Brazil, to the history of Berlin. (FILMAFFINITY)