1959 | B/N | 97:00 A defeated Colonel Zeta, from Pancho Villa’s forces, reaches a town controlled by Carranza’s men. There, he imprisons and orders the execution of Colonel Zúñiga, his former ally, and several of his men—including the lover of La Cucaracha, a female soldier who leads a group of armed women. The plot is further complicated by the arrival of Isabel, a bourgeois woman who has been forced to join the revolutionary struggle. Country: México Direction: Rodríguez; Ismael Script: Bolaños Prado; José, Rodríguez; Ismael, de Celis; José Luis, Garibay; Ricardo, Méndez; Antonio Production: Rodríguez; Ismael Photography: Figueroa; Gabriel Sound: Topete; Manuel Music: Lavista; Raúl Cast:Félix; María, del Río; Dolores, Fernández; Emilio Art direction: Fitzgerald; Edward Participation year at FICM: 2024
1959 | B/N | 97:00 A defeated Colonel Zeta, from Pancho Villa’s forces, reaches a town controlled by Carranza’s men. There, he imprisons and orders the execution of Colonel Zúñiga, his former ally, and several of his men—including the lover of La Cucaracha, a female soldier who leads a group of armed women. The plot is further complicated by the arrival of Isabel, a bourgeois woman who has been forced to join the revolutionary struggle. Country: México Direction: Rodríguez; Ismael Script: Bolaños Prado; José, Rodríguez; Ismael, de Celis; José Luis, Garibay; Ricardo, Méndez; Antonio Production: Rodríguez; Ismael Photography: Figueroa; Gabriel Sound: Topete; Manuel Music: Lavista; Raúl Cast:Félix; María, del Río; Dolores, Fernández; Emilio Art direction: Fitzgerald; Edward Participation year at FICM: 2024
Los tres García Despite the rivalry among them, the García cousins—Luis Antonio, José Luis, and Luis Manuel—live in harmony, punctuated by the cane-smacks of their grandmother, Doña Luisa. But one day Lupita appears: a distant cousin who all three young men fall in love with. The situation gets even more complicated when the López brothers, responsible for the deaths of the García parents, burst onto the scene. See More
My Son, the Hero In rugged, rural Mexico, a man is murdered in front of his young children. Haunted by his violent death, driven by hatred and a thirst for revenge, his widow raises her children to kill their father’s murderer when they grow up. See More
We the Poor Pepe el Toro is a humble carpenter who lives in a working-class Mexico City neighborhood marked by friendship and camaraderie. He supports his daughter, Chachita, and his paralyzed mother; his girlfriend is Celia, la Chorreada. The drama begins when Pepe is unjustly accused of murdering a money-lender, then imprisoned; at the same time, Chachita unwittingly finds out the true story of her late mother. See More
Yolanda Montes “Tongolele”, diosa de la danza 02 · 18 · 25 PEPE EL TORO appears in Cahiers 02 · 13 · 25 David Lynch (1946-2025), Mexico and a Lynchian Anecdote 01 · 23 · 25 MÉXICO, MÉXICO, RA, RA, RA, RA after half a century 01 · 16 · 25
