2011 | Color | 125 min Emilia, a housewife overwhelmed by the mediocrity of her life and by her husband´s failure, dissatisfied and exhausted by motherhood, feels that life is passing her by. One day, the same awful day that her distant lover leaves her, her credit card is cancelled for non-payment in the past few months. In her empty, desolate apartment, Emilia makes up her mind to do something she´s contemplated for a long time: commit suicide. Curiously, her death brings her deceived husband and elusive lover together. Country: México, España Direction: Ripstein; Arturo Script: Garciadiego; Paz Alicia Production: Morales; María José, Fiesco; Roberto Photography: Cantú; Alejandro Sound: Narváez del Valle; Armando, Juárez Espino; Omar Music: Mansfield; David Cast:Cruz; Vladimir, Haza; Plutarco, Reyes Spíndola; Patricia, Suárez; Alejandro, Padilla; Pilar, Arroyo; Paola, Chávez; Carlos, Aura; Marta, Meléndez; Eligio, García Rojas; Horacio, Ramírez; Arcelia, Torres; Harold Art direction: Cabriada; Sandra Participation year at FICM: 2011
2011 | Color | 125 min Emilia, a housewife overwhelmed by the mediocrity of her life and by her husband´s failure, dissatisfied and exhausted by motherhood, feels that life is passing her by. One day, the same awful day that her distant lover leaves her, her credit card is cancelled for non-payment in the past few months. In her empty, desolate apartment, Emilia makes up her mind to do something she´s contemplated for a long time: commit suicide. Curiously, her death brings her deceived husband and elusive lover together. Country: México, España Direction: Ripstein; Arturo Script: Garciadiego; Paz Alicia Production: Morales; María José, Fiesco; Roberto Photography: Cantú; Alejandro Sound: Narváez del Valle; Armando, Juárez Espino; Omar Music: Mansfield; David Cast:Cruz; Vladimir, Haza; Plutarco, Reyes Spíndola; Patricia, Suárez; Alejandro, Padilla; Pilar, Arroyo; Paola, Chávez; Carlos, Aura; Marta, Meléndez; Eligio, García Rojas; Horacio, Ramírez; Arcelia, Torres; Harold Art direction: Cabriada; Sandra Participation year at FICM: 2011
Profundo carmesí Mexico, 1949. Coral Fabre, a nurse for terminally ill patients who struggles to support her two children, dreams of the popular French actor Charles Boyer. In the love advice section of a magazine she reads, she finds an ad from one Nicolás Estrella, who boasts about his resemblance to Boyer and presents himself as a Spanish gentleman seeking a romantic relationship. Coral decides to write to him... See More
The Cause An interview with Chicano leader César Chávez, leader of the United Farm Workers labor union, who discusses the problems facing the Mexican population in certain states of the US. This is the struggle of a movement confronting social and economic pressure as it seeks to protect its own culture and identity from being uprooted. See More
El diablo entre las piernas Bored, “El Viejo” wanders the house, spying on his wife Beatriz. The fighting takes a toll and the balance is disturbed: Beatriz, knowing she’s under scrutiny, feels both desired and desirable. But she wants proof. One night she leaves home on an aimless walk with a single purpose: sex. Her return unleashes catastrophy. Dinorah, the maid, refuses to allow this audacity and takes a side. See More
Sundance Film Festival CDMX 2025: ABEL, HEROD'S LAW and more 05 · 29 · 25 Four 22nd FICM short films presented at the 64th Cannes Critics’ Week got a special screening in Paris 05 · 26 · 25 FICM presented four Mexican short films in a special screening at the 64th Critics' Week at Cannes 05 · 22 · 25 Aurora Clavel (1936-2025) and TARAHUMARA (ALWAYS FURTHER ON) 05 · 22 · 25
Four 22nd FICM short films presented at the 64th Cannes Critics’ Week got a special screening in Paris 05 · 26 · 25
FICM presented four Mexican short films in a special screening at the 64th Critics' Week at Cannes 05 · 22 · 25
