Movies: María del Carmen de Lara

Displaced by the violence that swept their town, Paloma and Lobo survive trying to love each other. Through thirst, fear and nostalgia, Paloma wishes to go back home but Lobo lives tied to a memory that stops him from returning....

Chicali is a young street cop who starts killing for the mafia by an unexpected situation. Mario, locked up for killing the Mexican presidential candidate in 1994 comes out of prison after 20 years of lockup and returns to Tijuana to rebuild his life...

A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom....

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Under the water of the dam Miguel Alemán rest the remains of the ancestors of the Mazatec people of San José Independencia and its surroundings....

In the course of Alaide Foppa's life, she became a precursor of feminism in Mexico. She was an immigrant who, in her own way, tried to break the molds established by her upper-class upbringing. Her sensitivity and intellectual development made her qu...

Hector is a man of the third age with serious problems of memory, the small homemade tasks of the daily life will be complicated as the day passes....

The polemic departure of Carmen Aristegui from W Radio brought a disturbing fact to light: a new party in power in Mexico did not mean the dawn of a new era of free speech in the media. The alarming persecution of independent journalists and the appr...

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This documentary deals with the stories, achievements and difficulties of women boxers and footballers. Their stories are told from the point of view of their daily lives where sport, family live and relationships intermingle in a complex and often c...

It focuses on the struggle of seamstresses whose workplaces in Mexico City were affected by the devastating 1985 earthquake and exposes their employers' refusal to pay fair compensation....

The first documentary directed by Maria del Carmen de Lara, together with feminist producer, scriptwriter and director Maria Eugenia Tamés. A direct cinema experience, based on research on the harsh reality of sex workers in Mexico at the time. Testi...

40 years ago in Mexico, a group of women filmmakers gathered to make films dealing with taboo subjects, gender violence, rape, feminicide, clandestine abortion, labor discrimination. They called themselves “Cine Mujer” and were active as a collective...

Mexican feature film...

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Get to know the work of some women who were part of the first generations of one of the most important filmmaking schools in the world....

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