LRMT: Documentales Mexicanos
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- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA documentary about the violence in Mexico told from the word of those who have suffered the pain and those who make the pain.
- DirectorEugenio PolgovskyDepicts the lives of children and their families who labor in the Mexican countryside.
- DirectorCarlos ArmellaPedro González-RubioStarsFernando PachecoRomelia SosaMario TelloIntimate and fascinating portrait of Fernando, also known as El Suicida and El Negro, a bull fighter in the slums of the Mexican Yucutan Peninsular. Sometimes he is a charming host to the film makers, often he is known blind drunk and aggressive towards his wife. He isn't old but he's already covered in psychological and physical scars.
- DirectorRoberto HernándezGeoffrey SmithTwo young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsRegina CardoFlorencia Vega MoctezumaMy grandmother??s lodging house situated at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. When I was ten years old I met one of them. His name was Jorge Riosse. My grand mother remembers him as a very special young man that filled up her life with art and love. But she also suspects that he murdered a dozen women.
- DirectorAntonino Isordia LlamazaresStarsAlejandro CotaRodolfo EscogidoMaría Fernanda Ramos MacínThis dark documentary can be seen as three separate stories of people united by two themes: they were born in 1973 in Mexico City, and their lives were, to different extent, destroyed. The first story is that of Rodolfo Escogido, a student leader who rises to obtain significant power in an organization known for being corrupt and violent. Rodolfo is able to unite its splinter groups, and enjoys a brief moment of glory, but later can't keep them together. He has a falling out with the governmental authorities who, at one point, had supported him, and ends up in jail accused, falsely according to him, of robbery. For the documentary he is interviewed in prison. The second story is that of María Fernanda Ramos Macín (Mafer), an emotionally unstable girl whose life begins to disintegrate in a mixture of partying, alcohol, drugs and unwanted pregnancies, until she attempts suicide by jumping from an 11-meter tall bridge, which leaves her paraplegic. The last story is that of Alejandro Cota, a psychopath serving a 50-year jail sentence for murdering his mother and three siblings in 1992. Also interviewed in jail, he recreates the grisly murder scene, committed with three accomplices using knives and a pipe wrench, and incredibly tries to portray himself as the victim.
- DirectorLaura PlancarteStarsAnais AlvaradoDimitri AndreasClaudia CoulterTierra Caliente is the story of an ordinary family in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. As they go about their normal lives, they are caught in the crossfire between the Narco drug cartels and the military.
- DirectorLourdes PortilloThis gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
- DirectorJuan Carlos RulfoStarsJuan José ArreolaManuel CosíoClara Aparicio de RulfoJuan Carlos Rulfo, the son of the acclaimed Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo (1917 - 1986), travels to the plains of Jalisco in search of his father.
- DirectorMaría José CuevasStarsOlga BreeskinLyn MayRossy MendozaAn honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame, and the chance for happiness.
- DirectorMaya GodedThis Documentary shows the life of four third age prostitutes working at one of the most poor neighborhoods of Mexico City.
- DirectorJ.M CraviotoStarsMiguel CantoFreddie CastilloGuty Espadas
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA series of stories with old thieves. Framed portraits in Mexico City from the 1970s and 1980s. From the corners of poverty and the prowess of being able to steal "honestly", a series of characters that make the old way of stealing endearing
- DirectorFelipe CazalsStarsVanessa BaucheThe violent death of Human Rights advocate Digna Ochoa y Plácido reveals the corrupt and dangerous rackets that operate within the political system in Mexico.
- DirectorLucía GajáTeenage immigrant, Rosa Jimenez, is accused of committing murder in a Texas.
- DirectorJuan Carlos RulfoStarsSalvador Enriquez CastilloSofia García LópezJosé Guadalupe CalzadaA portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.
- DirectorJuan Carlos MartínStarsGabriel Orozco
- DirectorEugenio PolgovskyAt the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, various families survive by hunting animals which they sell on the freeway.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezMetaphor of a small town that hides from death.
- DirectorNicolás EchevarríaStarsSantos de la TorreA portrait of the great Wixarika (Huichol) artist Santos de la Torre who lives in near anonymity in the Western Sierra Madre.
- DirectorRicardo SilvaStarsRichard LewisThe imagined apocalypse presented to us through portraits of characters struggling to survive in a hostile environment, where all they have is each other, and the only thing they posses in common is the will to keep on living, no matter the cost.
- DirectorRodrigo OccelliStarsBosco Gutiérrez CortinaOn the 29th of August 1990, the Mexican architect Bosco Gutiérrez Cortina was kidnapped in Mexico City. During 257 days, he lived in a room of 3x1 meters, without control of the light and barely enough food to survive. His unbreakable faith and human spirit helped him to encounter in the oblivion and confinement the strength to fight and reunite with his family again.
- DirectorRoberto FiescoStarsFernando García OrtegaLilia OrtegaJorge FonsThe memory and testimony of two characters: One, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transvestite some years ago, and now calls himself with a different name. They live together in Garibaldi yearning for their past in the movies, while Coral bravely comes to terms with her gender identity. They both still perform.