Mexican

  • FIREFLIES : an Iranian gay man’s search for freedom

    FIREFLIES : an Iranian gay man’s search for freedom

      After escaping from Iran where he was persecuted for being gay, Ramin (Arash Marandi) mistakenly takes the wrong freighter out of the port and ends up stranded in Vera Cruz Mexico.  It is hardly the vibrant city that it once was and is now decaying and demoralised like so many of people who seem…

  • Seeds (aka Cuernavaca) a Mexican coming-of-age story

    Seeds (aka Cuernavaca) a Mexican coming-of-age story

      After preadolescent Andy (Emilio Puente) sees his mother gets fatally shot in a random robbery, he is sent to live on the country estate of his paternal grandmother (the wonderful Carmen Maura) who he has never met before.  She is rather cold and awkward with him and brushes off any enquiries of the whereabouts…

  • Boy Undone

    Boy Undone

      Mexican filmmaker Leopoldo Laborde’s latest intriguing movie Boy Undone has been described as an excellent example of guerrilla filmmaking.  This is the term used to describe very low budget filmmaking with skeleton crews, and simple props using whatever is available. Often scenes are shot quickly in real locations without any warning, and without obtaining…

  • I Dream In Another Language

    I Dream In Another Language

    Mexican filmmaker Ernesto Contreras’s fourth feature film with a script by his brother (Carlos Contreras) is a magical mythical tale about the search for a language that is on the brink of extinction, because the last two remaining elderly speakers are bitter enemies who haven’t exchanged a word for the past 50 years. Martin (Fernando Álvarez…