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After a fancy dinner party, guests find they are mysteriously unable to leave. Over a few days they elaborate pretenses and facades they've built up by virtue of their position in society. Now they are reduced to living like animals.

"In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman (Magdalena Flores) whose quiet...

Año Ce-Acatl. Ciudad de Tenochtitlan. Los nobles y tlatoanis de la capital del imperio y sus ciudades aliadas se reúnen para discutir la noticia que ha sacudido a todoel Cem-Anahuac: la llegada de unos extraños hombres vestidos de metal, que...

Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique...

"A lo largo de veinticinco cuentos, Guadalupe Dueñas recorre múltiples vidas con un enfoque aparentemente cotidiano, pero mágico: hay ratas que adivinan la hora exacta de la llegada de un cadáver, también, por otra parte, hay una niña de la costa...