Spotlight on Mexican Cinema

Celebrate Mexican cinema with this collection of acclaimed films!

Ripe with all the drama of a Jane Austen novel, Isaac Cherem delivers an intimate, insightful, moving tale of a woman torn between family and love
Leona
  • 2018
Director/Writer Peter Greenawy's eye-opening look at one of cinema’s most respected figures" (Variety) - Sergei Eisenstein.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
  • 2016
Director Michel Franco's debut feature - a Cannes Film Festival Official Selection. "Compelling! Startling! Thought-provoking!" (Screen Daily)
Daniel & Ana
  • 2010
Director/Writer Amat Escalante delivers a raw, powerful film that took home the win for Best Director at Cannes 2013.
Heli
  • 2013
Iñárritu’s first feature and Gael Garcia Bernal’s film acting debut, was heralded by New York Magazine as “a truly prodigious piece of work."
Amores Perros
  • 2001
Heidi Ewing's Sundance Film Festival award winner is an epic love story, “carefully crafted from start to finish” (Hollywood Reporter)
I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo)
  • 2021
Unpredictable, gripping, and ultimately haunting. Michael Rowe directs this Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera winner
Leap Year
  • 2010
Striking, semi-autobiographical exploration from Director Carlos Reygadas. An abstract drama and an exploration of darkness and light.
Post Tenebras Lux
  • 2012
Director/Writer Carlos Cuarón crafts a stunning coming-of-age portrait of young love.
Sugar Kisses
  • 2013
Director/Writer Amat Escalante's Venice Film Festival award winner. "Once it wraps its tentacles around you, THE UNTAMED doesn't let go" (Indiewire).
The Untamed
  • 2016
Alfonso Arau's Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated film is a delicious love story that intoxicates audiences with its magical realism.
Like Water for Chocolate
  • 1993