Grandpa Cheno and Other Stories (1995)

About the Living

A Mexican upper-class family suffers a great loss. After a while everyone seems to go on with their lives. But after 11 years, everyone will start to remember that tragedy and start the road to depression and self-pity, and possible self-destruction.

Panda

Two teenagers are playing by night in a dirty parking lot. After they are driving on an empty road, they start to tease each other on the way to the sea, but they seem to be too young to drive and the road is a bit strange.

Complacent

Two close sisters, Myah and Beth, struggle with their differences in life and in the older sister's mentally abusive marriage, until the complacent lives of Beth and their married friends are shaken to the core by a tragedy that they are all forced to face.

A Short Film About Filing

The tedious monotony of an office employee's routine is interrupted by an unexpected item. In order to restore normality, he must find a way to deal with the item - a task which becomes much more complicated than first expected.

Six Weeks to Twelve Years

After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property.

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsuya

From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face.

Lazarus Rising

A hit man on the run and a woman with a secret try to evade teams of assassins headed by the lethal and relentless Mr. Gray.

Night of the Beast (From Twenty Zillion Years Ago)

A prehistoric two-headed dinosaur continues its adventures and battles a gigantic brine shrimp.

Happy Pills

A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimate response to human pursuits of well-being.

Gasping for Air

When his sister disappears after leaving their home in hopes of singing stardom, Luis tracks her down and discovers the grim reality of her whereabouts.

Post Modern Minion

A Minion artist finds himself cast aside when the art world's attention shifts to the next big thing. Determined to regain the spotlight, he embarks on a series of increasingly outlandish and chaotic attempts to prove his artistic worth. In the process, he accidentally stumbles upon an entirely unexpected career path. A playful exploration of creativity, reinvention, and the Minions' signature brand of accidental brilliance.

The Way to the Heart

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.

Tiro e Queda

Eddie and Manecas are two great friends. But they are also extremely stupid.

Yoru no tobari no monogatari: Samenai yume

Five further stories from the French designer, writer and director Michel Ocelot: La Maîtresse des monstres, Le Pont du petit cordonnier, Le Mousse et sa chatte, L'Écolier sorcier, and Ivan Tsarévitch et la Princesse Changeante. This compilation movie has only been released in Japan.

As Life Goes By

Un chef de gare surréaliste, un poète de la mécanique, un retraité "à la coule", une centenaire à l'humeur chantante, un paysan voyageur, un gyrocoptère qui fait du sur-place, un coq qui passe à la casserole... La Vie comme elle va prend les choses comme elles viennent et les gens comme ils sont. Loin du cynisme de la ville, le film révèle la réalité décalée d'un petit village de la campagne aveyronnaise : un bouquet champêtre d'humanité dont les héros sont reliés par un même désir, celui de vivre à Najac, proches de la nature, et y vivre bien, libres.

From Japan to Egypt

Muharram falls in love with a Japanese diplomat named Sakura, they get married and have twins. But she returns to Japan with the kids without his knowledge because of the difficult living conditions. Seven years later, they reach an agreement that the children come for six months to stay with him, but under conditions.

Lupulos' House

An emotional journey that takes us into one father – daughter relationship, through their struggles and dificultéis, ending in the house by the sea where they were happy together.

Lonely Stars

To the beat of punk and pop, Valentina and Joana pursue their most intimate and deepest dreams. On the road to success, they will find obstacles that will test their friendship. The harshness and absurdity of their lives, fuses with the sweet and sour story of a world where the party seems to go on forever.

Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator.

The Reaper

Efrain, known as the Reaper, has worked at a slaughterhouse for 25 years. We will discover his deep relationship with death and his struggle to live.

De ida y vuelta

After working for three years in the USA, Filiberto returns to his home town in Mexico. A proud man, he is searching for the recognition that will give him a new position in life. However, he finds that things have changed. His mother is dead, and Luis, his best friend, is married to his ex-girlfriend. Filiberto gets involved in the town’s disputes over a water spring.

The Violin

In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.

Help Me Make It Through the Night

A family on the brink of a break up: dad is about to throw out mom because of her gambling addiction, the oldest boy's girlfriend is about to leave him because of his epilepsy and the youngest child thinks he has the perfect plan to bring the family back together again.

The Edge of the Earth

In a small town where nothing ever happens, the inhabitants learn about a place at the edge of the earth where money and women are abundant. When they see the oportunity to go and work illegaly in the United States, they jump at the chance. Meanwhile Andrés and Gregorio go to the town searching for treasures and they only find Matilde, the rest of the women in the town left, tired of waiting for the men to return.

More Than Anything in the World

The relationship between beautiful Emilia (Elizabeth Cervantes) and her imaginative young daughter, Alicia, is tested in this understated Mexican drama. Disoriented after moving to a new apartment and left to herself when her mother starts bringing men home, Alicia takes refuge in dreams that soon become nightmares, especially after she begins to fear that her mom has become possessed by the vampirish man next door. With a keen eye for the rhythms and struggles of contemporary Mexican family life, this film illuminates the secret worlds of lonely children while never straying from its true subject: the uncommon love between a single mother and her child.

The Tiniest Place

Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country’s civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their community. Soulful, beautifully rendered, this amazing debut is an evocative testament to place, memory and the power of life to rebound from tragedy.

Tropic of Cancer

In San Luis Potosi, Mexico, residents survive by hunting animals and selling them on the freeway.

Romelia's Secret

The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.

Benjamín's Wife

Benjamin is an old bachelor who lives with his sister. One day he falls in love with the young Natividad. Seeing that the love letter strategy doesn't work with the girl, Benjamín decides to kidnap her.

Seven Moments

Is the story of women that were guerrilleras in Uruguay at the beginning of the 70's. Under an intimate focus, the film shows the moments of decision and the personal crossroads that it involve. The documentary search the experience and the look of common individuals in exceptional situations and goes to the bottom of the load of tensions, fears, contradictions and personal costs that those labor instants of the History have.

If I Never See You Again

Five elderly men form a music group and run away from the nursing home where they are interns with the hope of playing for an audience. They confront th city, the nursing home authorities, the police and all those who wish to destroy their dream which finally comes true when they are contracted to serve as musical background for strippers of a second class cabaret. In case i never see you again, is a movie about life, death, melancholy and the quest for happiness.

News from Afar

Under the notion that "you can not change the future, but the past," a young woman who has grown up in a poor village in the highlands, embarks on a spiritual journey to Mexico City seeking to break the cycle of family alienation and find hope. Fate will return to the source to destroy and start over.

We Are What We Are

After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.

A Trickle of Blood

Leon has a crush on Ofelia, so he decides to steal money from his father and cross the country looking for Ofelia who traveled to Guadalajara. On his journey, Leon goes through many adventures and takes the final step from childhood into adolescence.