Vision 2020 // Documentales Mexicanos Siglo XXI (I)
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- DirectorEugenio PolgovskyDepicts the lives of children and their families who labor in the Mexican countryside.
- DirectorEverardo GonzálezA series of stories with old thieves. Framed portraits in Mexico City from the 1970s and 1980s. From the corners of poverty and the prowess of being able to steal "honestly", a series of characters that make the old way of stealing endearing
- DirectorPedro González-RubioStarsJorge MachadoRoberta PalombiniNatan Machado PalombiniBefore their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.
- DirectorAntonino Isordia LlamazaresStarsAlejandro CotaRodolfo EscogidoMaría Fernanda Ramos MacínThis dark documentary can be seen as three separate stories of people united by two themes: they were born in 1973 in Mexico City, and their lives were, to different extent, destroyed. The first story is that of Rodolfo Escogido, a student leader who rises to obtain significant power in an organization known for being corrupt and violent. Rodolfo is able to unite its splinter groups, and enjoys a brief moment of glory, but later can't keep them together. He has a falling out with the governmental authorities who, at one point, had supported him, and ends up in jail accused, falsely according to him, of robbery. For the documentary he is interviewed in prison. The second story is that of María Fernanda Ramos Macín (Mafer), an emotionally unstable girl whose life begins to disintegrate in a mixture of partying, alcohol, drugs and unwanted pregnancies, until she attempts suicide by jumping from an 11-meter tall bridge, which leaves her paraplegic. The last story is that of Alejandro Cota, a psychopath serving a 50-year jail sentence for murdering his mother and three siblings in 1992. Also interviewed in jail, he recreates the grisly murder scene, committed with three accomplices using knives and a pipe wrench, and incredibly tries to portray himself as the victim.
- DirectorCarlos ArmellaPedro González-RubioStarsFernando PachecoRomelia SosaMario TelloIntimate and fascinating portrait of Fernando, also known as El Suicida and El Negro, a bull fighter in the slums of the Mexican Yucutan Peninsular. Sometimes he is a charming host to the film makers, often he is known blind drunk and aggressive towards his wife. He isn't old but he's already covered in psychological and physical scars.
- DirectorEva Aridjis FuentesStarsMarco Antonio Diaz Soria GarciaErika Cuna PenalozaJuan Carlos Alcala Torres MartinNiños de la Calle examines the gritty reality of four children living on the streets of Mexico City. Filmed in 2001, this dramatic and moving documentary follows Marcos, Erika, Antonio and Juan as they get high, visit their families and struggle to survive in the world's largest metropolis. Niños de la Calle was nominated for two Mexican Academy Awards (Arieles), and won the Best Feature Documentary prize at the inaugural edition of the Morelia International Film Festival in 2003.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsRegina CardoFlorencia Vega MoctezumaMy grandmother??s lodging house situated at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. When I was ten years old I met one of them. His name was Jorge Riosse. My grand mother remembers him as a very special young man that filled up her life with art and love. But she also suspects that he murdered a dozen women.
- DirectorEverardo González
- DirectorLourdes PortilloThis gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
- DirectorRoberto HernándezGeoffrey SmithTwo young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent.
- DirectorJuan Carlos RulfoStarsSalvador Enriquez CastilloSofia García LópezJosé Guadalupe CalzadaA portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.
- DirectorJosé Antonio CorderoAlejandra Sánchez OrozcoAlejandra SánchezIn an industrial town in Mexico near the US border, hundreds of women have been sexually abused and murdered. As the body count continues to rise, a web of corruption unfolds that reaches the highest levels of Mexican society.
- DirectorLucía GajáTeenage immigrant, Rosa Jimenez, is accused of committing murder in a Texas.
- DirectorSergio de la TorreVicky FunariJust over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, and it is there that they try to balance the struggle for survival with their own radicalization in this documentary.
- DirectorCarlos HagermanJuan Carlos RulfoStarsJulio Cesar CastilloLuis CastilloMaricela DzulAn intimate and discerning depiction of the impact of migration on families and villages left behind by loved ones who have traveled North for work.
- DirectorChristiane BurkhardDuring the 1970s, Mexico engaged in a "dirty war" against left-wing dissidents and suspected "subversives," resulting in the arrest and "disappearance" of hundreds of its own citizens.
- DirectorEugenio PolgovskyAt the Tropic of Cancer in the desert of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, various families survive by hunting animals which they sell on the freeway.
- DirectorJosé Antonio CorderoAlejandra Sánchez OrozcoAlejandra SánchezIn an industrial town in Mexico near the US border, hundreds of women have been sexually abused and murdered. As the body count continues to rise, a web of corruption unfolds that reaches the highest levels of Mexican society.
- DirectorJ.M CraviotoStarsMiguel CantoFreddie CastilloGuty Espadas
- DirectorLuis MandokiStarsFelipe Calderón HinojosaGuillermina CampuzanoAndrés Manuel López ObradorDocumentary on the 2006 Mexican presidential elections.
- DirectorAlejandra IslasStarsLydia CachoThe mexican journalist Lydia Cacho exposes a child prostitution network directed by a powerful entrepreneur, Kamel Nacif, who is supported by a deeply corrupted government system in the state of Puebla, including governor Mario Marin.
- DirectorIsaac-Pierre RacineAgustí VillarongaLydia ZimmermannStarsDaniel Giménez CachoCarmen BeatoZóltán JózanAro Tolbukhin is a hungarian inmigrant that sets fire to seven people in an infirmary in a Mission in Guatemala, the movie traces back to see what made him do it, from his arrival in Guatemala to his childhood in Hungary.
- DirectorMercedes Moncada RodríguezA tribal woman from Mexico's Tarahumara Mountains seeks justice for the death of her son who is tragically killed by a car driven by a white woman.
- DirectorGabriel Figueroa FloresDiego López RiveraStarsDolores Del RíoGabriel FigueroaCarlos MonsivåisDocumentary film about Diego Rivera produced by his grandson, director Diego Rivera Lopez and released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rivera's death. Rivera Lopez says, "In the 50 years since his death, my father's image has been obscured by the recent presentation of Frida as a heroine, and now I think its time to put him back in perspective." "A Portrait of Diego" illustrates the socio-political impact of Rivera's work on a Mexico emerging from the ruin of civil war. It includes interviews with Rivera's daughter, Guadalupe Rivera Marin, the writer Carlos Monsivais and the painter José Luis Cuevas. It includes 40 minutes of film made in 1949 by one of the most important the Mexican photographers of the early 20th century, Manuel Älvarez Bravo (1902-2002). That film was recently discovered in the archives of Rivera's friend, dinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (1907-1997), who photographed some of Luis Buñuels films, including "Los Olvidados" (1950), Rivera himself was filmed with a group of women of Tehuantepec, with flower (Alcatraz) sellers in Xochimilco, in his studio while painting a portrait of Dolores del Río and during the construction of his museum, Anahuacalli. There are also scenes of the Palacio de Bellas Artes' commemoration of Rivera's first fifty years as a painter, when more than 500 of his works were shown at that venue.