The 32nd Starz Denver Film Festival announces the Festival de Cine Mexicano program showcasing many of Mexico's most recent and influential films.
"Our Festival is known for its annual focus on a national cinema, and this year, Festival de Cine Mexicano will bring to Denver eight new films, as well as a number of directors from Mexico," said Brit Withey, SDFF artistic Director. "These reflect the wide-ranging styles and themes of contemporary Mexican filmmaking."
From contemporary Mexican films such as Rudo y Cursi, Sin Nombre, Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros, and numerous others, the Mexican film industry is becoming a cinematic leader of the Spanish-speaking world.
Check out a list of all of the films of Festival de Cine Mexicano after the jump.
Caja Negra (Black Box)
In this psychological thriller, a secret organization plots to kill a political candidate - using a dying man as its unwilling assassin. Black Box introduces us to the conspirators via complex, fast-paced animation - but slows midway to a methodical cat-and-mouse game played by captor and captive in alternating roles.
Cruzando (Crossing)
When hapless Manuel, a janitor at a Mexican strip club, hears that his father is about to be executed in Texas, he embarks on a picaresque trek for the border with his pal Diego in a quirky road movie that is by turns comedy and tragedy.
Corazón del Tiempo (Heart of Time)
In this political narrative styled as a documentary, a young woman in the volatile Mexican state of Chiapas brings the threat of chaos to her community when she breaks her engagement with a local boy in order to pursue her love for a Zapatista rebel.
Norteado (Northless)
In Oaxacan-born director Rigoberto Perezcano's first feature, Andrés, a young farmer from the south of Mexico, has made several attempts to cross the border into the United States - all dashed by the danger of the desert. On the verge of giving up, he decides to try one last brilliant if surrealistic plan.
La Ultima y Nos Vamos (One for the Road)
Three well-heeled young men looking for action in Mexico City and find it when they cross the boundaries that divide them from the city's working classes to discover an entirely new world. Director Eva López-Sánchez based her drama on the real-life experiences of her coauthor, Alfredo Mier y Terán.
Rabioso Sol, Rabioso Cielo (Raging Sun, Raging Sky)
In the experimental filmmaker Julián Hernández's mystical celebration of sexual desire, two young lovers are torn apart by circumstance and seek divine guidance to help bring them back together. On the brink of reunion, tragedy strikes again, but their passion is so pure that the gods immortalize them in myth.
El Arból (The Tree)
Santiago, a Madrileño bartender, is trying to come to terms with the deteriorating circumstances of his life. Thrown out by his wife, barred from seeing his children, and fired from his job, he walks the streets searching for salvation - which he might just find on a high bridge in the middle of the city.
As previously announced, the Festival de Cine Mexicano program will also include a special presentation of the feature film, Up, in Spanish subtitles, as a part of the Saturday-at-the-Movies program Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
SDFF recognizes the following sponsors for their support of this program: Cinema Latino, Consulate General of Mexico in Denver, Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara, Idea Marketing, Mexican Cultural Center, Mezcal, Museo de las Americas, Que Bueno 1280AM, Tambien, Telefutura, University of Guadalajara and Univision Colorado.
