The Follies 2025
Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.
Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.
Mexican feature film
To avoid imprisonment, a woman pretends to be crazy after killing the man who blackmailed her sister.
After meeting at a party, Luciana and Pedro... embark on a spur of the moment journey together that takes them to the forest. Asthey explore the beauty in the nature that surrounds them, they camp out under the stars, go on hikes, indulge in the passions of their encounter, and discuss their personal beliefs surrounding love, obligations, and attraction. Lensed in lush black-and-white cinematography amidst the gorgeous backdrop of the Costa Rican forest, an honest and genuine relationship story unfolds, lending a feeling of realism to their storybook romance in a refreshing and youthful way.
Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.
40 years ago in Mexico, a group of women filmmakers gathered to make films dealing with taboo subjects, gender violence, rape, feminicide, clandestine abortion, labor discrimination. They called themselves “Cine Mujer” and were active as a collective for over 10 years. Today they reflect on violence against women and their continuous struggles, which are still prevalent in modern society.
In a house hidden in the middle of the jungle, a clairvoyant is visited by three strangers who ask for her help in invoking an ancestor at a séance. This unwanted encounter soon turns into a nightmare.
Mexican feature film
Claudio is a skilled con artist desperate for money. In a misguided attempt to claim insurance on his truck, he tries to destroy it, only to discover the lifeless body of the son of a powerful crime boss hidden inside. Arrested and taken to Torreón, Claudio is seen by the prosecutor as a cunning criminal in disguise. To escape his predicament, he must turn the tables and act as bait to lure out the ruthless leader, El Rojo, plunging him deeper into a dangerous game of deception and survival.
Two stories: 'Tajimara' the platonic love of a couple; and 'Un Alma Pura' (A Pure Soul) about the incestuous love of some siblings.
By a dissociated Santiago de Chile the old figure of Bareta transits in search of Carranza, who was once his partner and now his enemy. Bareta, a man who knows the invisible faces of the city, moves from place to place and from fantasy to fantasy tried to conclude all his affairs, while Carranza waits for him in his dark office, since both know that inevitably this will be the last day of both.
A group of undocumented Mexican farm workers must fight against Neo-Nazis in the United States.
It’s a dark and disturbing neo-noir tale cut. It’s a somber yet violent tale of Alan Massy, an old man who has decided to go to extreme and terrifying lengths to fulfill his daughter Terri’s dying wish – to track down her estranged grandchild while exacting revenge on her lover, leader of a right-wing community called Snowdevil.
A serial killer goes on a gory killing spree in this low-budget Mexican slasher.
An elderly homeless man is welcomed into an Old Folks' Home and becomes acquainted with the dramas of several of his companions.
A documentary maker, a team of researchers in dead languages and rites, a priest and a cameraman enter a factory that has been abandoned since 2001, when an employee murdered 16 work colleagues and subsequently, in the face of police persecution, killed himself. The police concealed evidence and closed the case as mass murder, but several testimonies, forensic photographs and other studies showed that the killer had practiced Enochian magic.
Mona picks up her first job tutoring two orphaned children living in a derelict house in the country. Her obsession with trying to educate these two nearly feral children blinds her to the fact they have other plans for her.
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
Ximena is an illiterate woman in her fifties, who has learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy as a secret. Jackeline, is a young unemployed elementary school teacher, who tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to be an almost impossible task, till one day, Jackeline finds something Ximena has been keeping as her only treasure since she was a child: a letter Ximena's father left when he abandoned her many years before. Thus, the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover that there are many ways of being illiterate, and that not knowing how to read is just one of them.