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- 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 CohenLorenzo HagermanWith over 20 million residents, can Mexico City avert disaster and become water sustainable?
- DirectorArturo González VillaseñorA documentary that tells the stories of the women who live in La Patrona, a Mexican village that is situated by the tracks of a train from Central America that brings many migrants North to the U.S..
- DirectorRodrigo ReyesA provocative meditation that captures the brutal beauty of the U.S./ Mexico Border.
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaThe glimpse into the life of Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles.
- DirectorBetzabé GarcíaStarsIrineo Osuna EncisoMaría Aura Zazueta LampharRamiro Osuna MorenoThree families live in a village partially submerged by water in Northwestern Mexico. Despite their loneliness and fear, they refuse to leave.
- DirectorAdrián OrtizInside the elevators of the oldest multifamily residential building in Latin America the life goes briefly. Bodies and stories crowd together in front of the elevators operators' eyes in the small metal box. Elevator operators are spectators, guardians and confidants. They are the ones who patiently know the living history of the buildings.
- DirectorJosé ÀlvarezJosé ÁlvarezA documentary the Wixarika culture (or Huichol) originates from the Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Durango where more than 50,000 Huicholes currently live and practice their indigenous traditions.
- DirectorYolanda PividalOf Kites and Borders is a documentary about the daily struggle to be a child just across the border from the US told through the eyes of four working children from Tijuana : Edie is just a teen that leads undocumented people to the US as he promises himself he will never get worn-out working in the factories. Carmela is a nine year old who knows more about dumps than tales yet fantasizes of a better life just by looking at the kites fly over the giants assembly plants that crown her slum. Adrian and Fernando conceal their childhood with masks everyday to perform wrestling matches beneath the streetlights to support their family while dreaming of one day travel the world as famous Mexican wrestlers.
- DirectorMark BeckerStarsArturo AriasCarmelo Muñiz SanchezA troubadour returns home to scratch out a living in Mexico after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco.
- DirectorLourdes PortilloThis gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border
- 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.
- DirectorHatuey Viveros LavielleA nahua family struggles after the death of the pater familias.