Cinema Guild

To reflect on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hernan Cortes' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with...

A dazzling and delightful mystery about love and its follies from filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. VIOLA follows a young woman who joins a small Shakespeare theater company in Buenos Aires and becomes entangled in a seductive roundelay of romantic dalliances, intrigue and revelation. Official Selection at **Toronto International Film Festival** and the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"Piñeiro's bold but graceful camera movements, exploring space...

On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life. Stories hide within stories and the thin line between imagination and reality steadily erodes, opening up a marvelous new world of personal remembrance and fantastic melodrama. Nominated for the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Elegiac,...

Iron-willed businesswoman María García is the owner of a tequila factory in Jalisco struggling to stay afloat. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community’s primary economy and source of pride.

Filmed by Chilean master Raúl Ruiz in 1990 but left unfinished until it was completed by his wife and collaborator Valeria Sarmiento in 2017, THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA is a dreamily interconnected series of vignettes that spoof on telenovela conventions while reflecting Ruiz's feelings upon returning to his native Chile after more than 15 years away. In one episode, a man seduces a woman by showing her his muscles, which are actually slabs of raw...

Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final holdover from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, María knows...

Mariel (María Villar) es una actriz de Buenos Aires que intenta obtener a lo largo de dos años de audiciones el papel de Isabella, la heroína de la comedia 'Medida por medida'. En el camino entre la frustración y la idea del éxito, Mariel se encuentra una y otra vez con Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), una antigua compañera de teatro, que actúa como una suerte de sombra brillante, un destino que no puede evitar, que la ilumina y encandila al mismo...

Explores the tradition of reading aloud classic works of literature and newspapers to Cuban cigar makers while they work, a practice which began in the mid-1880's and continues today. Workers and professional readers attest to the benefits and satisfactions of this tradition.

On the verge of a forced retirement, Don Celso, an elderly office worker begins to relive both real and imagined memories from his life, a trip to the movies as a young boy with Beethoven, listening to tall tales from Long John Silver, a brief stay in a haunted hotel, conversations with a fictional doppelganger of a real writer. Stories hide within stories and the thin line between imagination and reality steadily erodes, opening up a marvelous new...