Films / Programs

Festival de Cine Mexicano

The Mexican film industry is experiencing a period of flowering artistic growth and has clearly established itself as the cinematic leader of the Spanish-speaking world.The Starz Denver Film Festival is proud to present a selection of these works.

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  Black Box

  Mexico , 2009 , 80 min. 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 cat-and-mouse game played by captor and captive.... more
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  Crossing

  USA , 2009 , 95 min. 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.... more
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  Heart of Time

  Mexico , 2008 , 90 min. 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.... more
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  Northless

  Mexico , 2009 , 93 min. 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.... more
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  One for the Road

  Mexico , 2009 , 90 min. 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.... more
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  Raging Sun, Raging Sky

  Mexico , 2008 , 191 min. 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.... more
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  Up: Subtitled in Spanish

  USA , 2009 , 95 min. A special Festival de Cine Mexicano subtitled Saturday-at-the-Movies Presentation.... more