Lila Avilés

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.

Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled with moral abuse by her mother, sister and friends, calling her silly offensive names referencing her overweight. When she became an adult, things didn’t really get any better. She’s fired for being fat, she wants a liposuction but the doctor informs her she’s not a candidate due to her overweight, and all her universe seems to be collapsing after a series of unfortunate events. But everything will soon get better thanks to some magical beetles she finds in a Tarot café.

Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

Lila Avilés, the award-winning writer-director of Tótem and The Chambermaid, follows Leticia Gallardo and her all-female band Mujeres del Viento Florido, musicians from more than 60 Indigenous communities across Mexico who travel from the mountainous region of Tlahuitoltepec to Oaxaca and Mexico City bringing joyous popular music and a kind of brassy defiance of centuries of persecution. - MoMA

To release sweat from the skin's pores as a result of existing. A production by Carmen Martínez where she explores love, youth, old age, and desire.

short film painting in motion first part of the tetralogy of words

Tonatiuh and Maria experience a passionate and turbulent relationship. One night, in the heat of an argument, they suffer a dramatic automobile accident. Tonatiuh is left in a coma, where he sees Alicia, his nurse, including her in his dreams about Maria. Time later, Alicia has an accident and suffers amnesia while Tonatiuh wakes up. One year later, Tonatiuh and Alicia meet and an impossible love arouses from oblivion, haunted by the ghost of Maria's memories.

Julian is a young vampire who tries to live a normal life.

A love triangle between Mateo, Nadia and Tomas. The story of a friendship, the portrait of a paralyzed generation, the tale of how they live, love and find each other in their solitude.

Luz works at a gallery but her real passion and purpose in life is as an opera singer. She’s been invited to audition for Madame Butterfly at one of the principal theatres in Mexico City. Luz must practice. Her friends Lycian and Chío instruct her. How to make her voice and hands dance. She’s told “Your mouth is twice the size of your eye,” and this is all part of a divine geometry that governs the world. The 25th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales.

'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.

The daily life of Ana, a 9-year-old adult.

A fashion film directed by Lila Avilés Solís, about three girls who walk the streets and some places in Havana, Cuba, dressed by the Mexican designer Alexia Ulibarri, talking about beauty, freedom, happiness...

A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.

A fashion film, a metaphor about the separation process. It is a timeless story about how we assimilate breakups and how we have to rebuild ourselves based on memory and detachment. Strengthening our inner and outer being, almost like a metamorphosis.

Prófugas del Destino is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the Mexican television network TV Azteca. The stars and crews are mainly from Mujer Comprada.

El Pantera is a Mexican television series released by Canal 5. It is based on a comic book of the same name. It narrates the life of Gervasio, a young man who fights crime in Mexico City. The title role is performed by Luis Roberto Guzmán. The series started airing on May 2007, and is filmed in Mexico City under the direction of producers Rodolfo de Anda and Alexis Ayala. It currently airs its third season Mondays on Canal 5 at 10:00pm and on cable TV channel Galavisión Tuesdays at 21:30pm. The character of El Pantera was created in the 70's by the writer Daniel Muñoz and artist Juan Alba for Mundo Vid. A novel called El Pantera, or La Noche del Pantera was written by Muñoz in the 90's, followed by El Misterio de la Amenaza Negra.

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