Movies: Sebastián Hiriart

The De La Mora siblings concoct a mischievous plan to break into their old family home to retrieve a hidden treasure of significant importance....

In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, a band of pre-teen boys are forced to rely on their own resources for survival....

Friday night in Mexico City... guided by three different ways of understanding the world, 20-year-olds, Juan, Rodrigo and Christian live after-hour adventures of friendship, love, and respect in a city marked by social differences....

Orphans is the true story of a forbidden love affair set in the oppressive and violent atmosphere of nineteenth century Mexico. One man, Melchor Ocampo, driven by the twin passions of love and idealism, defies the stain of illegitimacy to shake off t...

The life of Fermín goes by, divided between his work as a diablero and the confinement he lives in within his house. Like him, other families live in a vecindad in the heart of Mexico City. One day, a company colluded with the government threatens to...

A jet-setting model leads a freewheeling life in Mexico City until she falls in love with an artist....

Clara grew up in the Belize jungles but was sent to live in San Francisco after a childhood trauma. Her older boyfriend, Gabriel encourages a trip back to her jungle home. Once arriving, the familiar faces and tropic environment fills Clara with hope...

A storm threatens the south coast of Mexico. A young couple has traveled to this tropic paradise to light the fire of their relationship. While days pass, this romantic vacation starts turning the opposite: a savage love triangle with a violent and u...

Bruno, 19 years old, has not begun his sexual life. He feels guilty about his brother's death and one of his exgirlfriends, who happens to be his first love, is back in town to help him out....

In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about th...

In 1956, while living in Chiapas, Mexico, U.S. anthropologist Roberta Montague adopts a baby girl, and asks her colleague, famous Cuban ethnologist Calixta Guiteras, to be the girl’s godmother. Inspired by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Calixta...

Insects mate, stories are born. The concept of “love” gets put under the looking glass in this captivatingly maverick film. Manuel, a lonely 36-year-old, begins an unusual friendship with the much younger Alma. A young foreign couple set out on an...

A man’s death awakes a sense of curiosity in Nellie, a girl who discovers empathy by mourning a stranger....

Jacinto Medina, a 21 year old youth, is bored with his life as a shepherd in northern Mexico. He finds a keychain on the ground and, seeing it as a signal, undertakes a trip that will lead him to cross thousands of miles....

The tracker seeks, sniffs, investigates but mostly traces. He follows the footprint of the beast that is leaving in its path a trai of blood and death....

Roots Time is the story of "Jah Bull" and "Baboo", two Rastafarians that sell LP records in an old colorful car field for the villages within Jamaica. By chance "Farmer Roots," his favorite radio host makes them finger in an emergency by carrying his...

Each September, Bolot Tagaev and his family practice a centuries old tradition, harvesting walnuts in one of the oldest walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan. Over the course of a single season, director Zaheed Mawani gracefully captures delicate sequences su...

On the eve of the Candelaria festival in Mexico, Ariana suffers her love for the Cebu bull that lives in the countryside on the other side of the river. At the celebration, Cebu will be taken to the village to be persecuted and killed. Among the pers...