Diego López Rivera

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his people, his permanent search for identity as a man and as an artist and his struggle against the demons of the body and his subsequent religious conversion.

Mexican feature film

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

In a totalitarian future, in a nightmare metropolis, inhabited only by criminals and police, Erik Lonnrot, a gifted detective, investigates a series of strange murders and disappearances that seem to implicate a insane crime lord. (Re-released in 1996 as a feature film, 86 minutes.)

Documentary film about Diego Rivera produced by his grandson, director Diego Rivera Lopez and released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rivera's death. Rivera Lopez says, "In the 50 years since his death, my father's image has been obscured by the recent presentation of Frida as a heroine, and now I think its time to put him back in perspective."

Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María announces she's moving to London to study, the sullen Esteban decides to follow her, and both opt to steal from their parents to escape and be free, with shocking results.