Suffocation

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.

A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together.

When a last-minute chance to host the 1986 World Cup appears, a cunning Mexican bureaucrat, armed with nothing but guts and audacity, cons his way through FIFA to beat the United States, but in a country of power games, every victory has a price.

Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.

La Maestra and Paula are the best swimmers in their team and best friends, until an incident at a party changes everything. La Maestra, intense and unstoppable, realises that something in her best friend has changed, making her sad. When the truth comes to light, the two are faced with an impossible decision: Paula wants to keep quiet about it, while La Maestra wants revenge. Their friendship, previously unbreakable, will be put to the test as never before.

In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.

While their mother unpacks removal boxes, Valentina (5) and Quique (11) run riot around the flat. Their parents have separated. When their father picks them up to show them his new, old life, the children receive a painful glimpse into the adult world.

Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his covers, he and Arnulfo end up in a journey where he will be the hostage of this young criminal.

When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.

In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

Journalist Laura works at home, isolating herself from others. While she lies to her mother and brother, Raul, on the phone about having an active social life, Laura's days consist of gazing at her neighbors, eating canned food and going to clubs to bring home strangers. As the anniversary of her father's death draws near, Laura develops a relationship with Arturo, a charismatic actor who shares her taste for rough sex.

Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.

A toxic relationship makes Connie think she’s gone crazy until she discovers she’s been manipulated by her partner who’s hiding a dark secret.

Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy.

Pedro's mom has just died, reason that makes him go to Luvina in search of Tanilo, who recites the dead people's messages in verse. "Hierba mala", wild to the death, wants his powerful partner and murderer to be avenged, risking the child's life, who, between whispers and bullets, only wishes to accomplish his mother's last will.

An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

Three men struggling to survive their spatial and temporal limits in front of and within a witness: the mountain.

After a magical encounter with a flower, Moisés and his child Samy embark on a journey of discovery and transformation. Through an ancient tale and Samy’s perspective, a world full of colors begins to unfold, where other ways of existing start to reveal themselves.

A couple on the verge of getting married gets mixed up with a gang of thugs in this routine crime drama that underscores the Socio-economic disparity in the Mexican culture. The upper-class couple rides along with outsiders who go club-hopping and resort to petty thievery. After their adventure, the couple questions whether or not they are right for each other.

TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?

Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.

Martha is a 75-year old woman who lives alone in a social interest house in the outskirts of Mexico City. Martha decides to end her life. Her thrilling journey towards death, will surprisingly lead her, for the first time, to life.

Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion.

A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.

Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.

Helena suffers the loss of her parents. Between mourning and abandonment, she receives through dreams, messages that will make her delve into herself, and at the same time, follow the strange trail of someone who will change her existence.

This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer faces trial for Mexico's violent history. The fourth feature from Santiago Mohar Volkow, Una historia de amor y guerra centres on real estate baron Pepe Sánchez-Campo, whose mega-mall development brings him into conflict with local guerrillas. For once, bribery and a call to Daddy might not be enough to save Pepe – a character more grotesque than the telenovela unfolding around him. Trying to sabotage Pepe's marriage to Constanza, her cousin and lover Teo records Pepe cheating. The resulting chaos precipitates in a burlesque bloodbath involving treachery, talking animals, colonial history and bartering in the afterlife.

Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.

A psychoanalyst on community service aids an agent shattered by infidelity; together, they will confront danger and discover second chances.

17-year-old Joel, a recently recruited night guard, watches over a compound marked by cartel violence. When the darkness begins to whisper, he realizes some secrets never die.

Ligia and Mayte are best friends who are planning the “best quinceañera party ever” in order to achieve the respect and the popularity they so much desire. When a supernatural beast attacks Joel, Ligia’s boyfriend, he manages to escape but he is gradually transforming into something fierce and inexplicable. Ligia will soon discover she is pregnant and the creature that she’s carrying inside is not only a threat to her but to everyone around her.

Arcelia takes care of her lifetime partner Lulu. Julian, a teenager exploring his identity, lives under the watch of his conservative mother. A sudden event will draw an unexpected path between the old couple and Julian.

After a long exile, Gabriela returns to her family’s land to care for her ailing father and make peace with her painful past. Upon her return, she is faced with Diego, the reason why she left, and the new owner of the land.

In search of his sister, a renegade criminal seeks answers at a sordid hotel where he encounters a sinister guest and romances a mysterious waitress.

Angélica and José Luis have been married for thirty years and they have always lived at the same house; first with their son, Daniel, and now, by themselves. Their daily routine is threatened when José Luis loses a leg in a car accident. When they try to restructure their life, they realize their relation was already fractured and opt for silence. However, they begin a passionate search for all they have lost. José Luis takes refuge in a sexual fantasy about his young nurse, while Angélica tries to remain just as contained as she always has for so many years.

Sergio Arau's documentary on his 1980's mexican rock band Botellita de Jerez.

Seventh chapter of Spells and Magicians.