I Promise You Anarchy follows the lives of two young skateboarders, Miguel and Johnny, who are not only best friends but also secretly involved in a romantic relationship. They sell their own blood to make ends meet and get entangled in the dangerous world of narcotic trade. As their love and loyalty are tested, they find themselves making risky choices that could change their lives forever.
In a future where Mexico is plagued by crime, a young girl must navigate a dangerous world and fight for her survival. With her father missing and her community under the control of a violent gang, she discovers strength and resilience within herself as she seeks to protect her loved ones. Along the way, she encounters amputees, drugs, and a world where survival is everything.
For this short, incisive opus, his starting point is a tree. A famous - and ailing - tree, which is said to have stood the test of time ever since Hernán Cortés, the conquistador, was said to have shed tears on it after his single but crushing defeat by the Aztecs in 1520 during the so-called Triste Nuit (Sad Night). Cordón, true to his style of taking his protagonists and us on unpredictable odysseys, invites us into the turmoil of this night with its multiple echoes. - N. Feodoroff
Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.
Don Alfonso plays marimbas, the traditional Guatemalan instrument. Facing extortion and without work due to the population's lack of interest for his instrument, he seeks refuge with his godson Chiquilín. Blacko is a pioneer of the Heavy Metal Guatemalan underground stage. He is also a doctor in the public hospital but nobody wants to be treated by him because of his long hair and his tattoos. Chiquilín makes connections for Don Alfonso and Blacko to combine their talents and create a brand new band called Marimbas from Hell.
A Mexican movie director travels the world as a vampire, getting blood from wherever he can at local film festivals.
Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia"
Pepe Moco, a mentally handicapped boy, who makes an advert for one of the presidential candidates who promises to organise the first World Cup in Guatemala. Beto is a kid who scales a town drawn in chalk, venting his spleen on its walls, threatening passersby with balls. The two of them soon become very close evoking the past and present of a country that does harm.
A young girl who goes on a journey to find the lake of Texcoco.
Ignacio is shooting a documentary on the people who disappeared in 1982 during the armed conflict in an indigenous Guatemalan village. Amongst the families are Delfina and her son Juan. Delfina still hopes to find her husband, but Juan knows who was responsible for the disappearance of his father: someone who still lives in the same village.
After the end of Guatemala's military dictatorship, relatives of the Maya killed during the genocide in the 1980s search for the bodies of their missing relatives, and fight to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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