Art

Ivonne Fuentes

Mexico City, 1973. Director, screenwriter, film editor, producer and costume designer. She studied communication studies at Universidad Iberoamerican Noreste in Tijuana, BC. Later, she studied at CUEC, majoring as a filmmaker. She studied an arts history diploma course at Instituto Cultural Helénic. With the help of the FOPROCINE and a grant from the FONCA, she made her first feature documentary E…

Known For

Miss BalaMiss Bala · 2011
Miss Bala
★ 6.72011
MovieDramaAction
The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.
The Crime of Padre AmaroThe Crime of Padre Amaro · 2002
The Crime of Padre Amaro
★ 6.72002
MovieDramaRomance
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.
Cesar ChavezCesar Chavez · 2014
Cesar Chavez
★ 6.22014
MovieDrama
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.
EurekaEureka · 2024
Eureka
★ 6.22024
MovieDrama
A cowboy arrives in a town in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, and a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in the Amazon jungle.
I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe MeI Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me · 2023
I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me
★ 6.42023
MovieComedyCrime
A writer's career — and entire life — suddenly goes off script when he falls prey to a dangerous web of criminals right before moving to Barcelona.
Sexennial PlanSexennial Plan · 2014
Sexennial Plan
★ 5.12014
MovieThrillerHorror
Mercedes’ fantasy turns into a nightmare. Juan’s greatest fear takes the shape of a strange man entering his house. The city has fallen into chaos and anarchy, so it's going to be difficult to get some ice for the drinks; but tonight, Mercedes is an object of desire to men, so nothing else matters.
The Black MinutesThe Black Minutes · 2021
The Black Minutes
★ 6.02021
MovieCrimeThriller
In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.
HeroicHeroic · 2023
Heroic
★ 7.22023
MovieDramaThriller
Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the hope of securing a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to make him a perfect soldier.

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Stories of DisenchantmentStories of Disenchantment · 2005
Stories of Disenchantment
★ 5.52005
MovieComedyDrama
In a world devoured by an invisible force known as disenchantment, the stories of three characters intertwine: Diego, who tries to make a movie about the dreams of Ximena, an adolescent experiencing her sexual awakening, who is secretly in love with him and who, in order to help him in his bizarre project, leads him to Ainda, a conceptual artist with bat wings, with whom the naïve filmmaker falls madly in love. Ainda is attracted by the purity of the young people and seduces them both, which leads to a magical moment in the lives of all three. But soon the young people discover that their beloved harpy’s heart belongs to a being from beyond the grave. Then the idyllic relationship of the three characters begins to crumble and they do everything in their power to prevent it, as the dark force of disenchantment closes over the city.

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