CDMX

With over 20 million residents, can Mexico City avert disaster and become water sustainable?

Tomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.

An amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.

Renata, a wealthy girl, and Ulises, a poor teenager, fall in love despite their different social backgrounds. Facing opposition from their families and society, their romance highlights class conflict and social inequality in Mexico.

During World War I, a young Australian miner decides to change his fate; however, the new reality will force him to make a difficult choice.

In 1940s Mexico City, schoolboy Carlos falls in love with his best friend's mother, Mariana. Carlos is impressed because this family is not like the typical Mexican families of the time because although they aren't rich, they have many expensive American things. The drama begins when Carlos gets out of school to go to declare his love to Mariana, and is discovered by his teachers.

A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.

A small-time drug dealer (Jorge Adrián Espíndola) meets a mysterious masked woman and becomes embroiled in murder.

Marcos lusts after his boss's promiscuous daughter, but after botching an extortion scheme, he becomes wracked with guilt.

On a dry lakebed in 1964, a trucker and his companion find a baby boy. Years later, interweaving narratives about childhood link the destinies of three men from the local neighborhood to the lakebed and the baby. Director Alejandro Gerber Bicecci turns a tangled neighborhood tale into an enthralling mix of history, memory and atonement. Presented by the Global Film Initiative.