In this new horror anthology, nine Mexican directors come together to tell stories about the most brutal, ruthless and bizarre Mexican traditions and legends.
In a peripheral zone of Mexico City, the collection of money from merchants and residents of the area is an everyday occurrence. On a sunny Sunday, in a housing unit located in one of these areas, a merchant has not paid his fee and the hired killers have come to give him an ultimatum.
In 1971, two young entrepeneurs decide to organize a race car with lots of indie rock bands livening up the event in Avandaro, Mexico. When only 25 thousand tickets are sold but more than 200 thousand people arrive, things start to get out of control.
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. Per the film's title, these characters pair off,...
The life of Fermín goes by, divided between his work as a diablero and the confinement he lives in within his house. Like him, other families live in a vecindad in the heart of Mexico City. One day, a company colluded with the government threatens to evict the vecindad tenants in order to build a...
Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, revealing the social prejudices that manifest themselves in classism and racism, as part of a historical reality in Mexico.
Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy...
María, Pablo, and Juanito live in an orphanage under the care of Father Sócrates, which is on the verge of closing due to a lack of resources. Juanito is diagnosed with a heart condition, further complicating their situation. Don Lucho, the owner of the town's seafood restaurant, tells the...
La cama is a story that gives a voice to reveal the secrets held by beds. If your bed could speak, what stories would it tell? We spend more than a third of our life in bed; it is the uttermost intimate space. In them lay our secrets; perhaps that is why we never think about them. They are a direct...
At 75 years old, Ricardo has problems balancing his job as a janitor at an elementary school and the care his wife requires in a wheelchair. Since it is impossible for him to survive on the pension he would receive, he must continue working and the conflict with a student will end up causing him to...
A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause
With the death of her husband and the absence of her son, Esmeralda has lost interest in life. Living in a small town, within the walls of her house, she regains hope when a baby pig comes into her life.
Daniel is a young man suffering from low selfesteem, who is incapable of defending himself from the abuses of employers and of society in general. He is medicated with antidepressants to make his monotonous life more bearable; however, far from helping him, the medication worsens hiscondition with...
