Ariel a Mejor Ópera Prima
El Premio Ariel a Mejor Ópera Prima es un premio otorgado anualmente por la Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC). Se otorga en honor a la mejor primera película de un cineasta.
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- DirectorRaúl AraizaStarsErnesto Gómez CruzRaúl RamírezAarón HernánA young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.
- DirectorFernando VallejoStarsMario SaavedraGerardo VigilCarlos CardánIt tells the story of a young gambling enthusiast who becomes involved in the murder of two customs guards.
- DirectorGerardo PardoStarsClaudio BrookDiana BrachoMarta Aura
- DirectorAlberto CortésStarsJuan Carlos ColomboEmilio CortésAlonso EchánoveMaria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.
- DirectorRoberto Rochín
- DirectorBusi CortésStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Dolores BeristáinDiana BrachoAn elder woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holidays to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and her daughter wants to find out about the mystery of her unknown father.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsLeticia HuijaraAlejandra CerrilloMartha NavarroLola is a struggling saleswoman with problems, causing her to ask her mother to take care of her young daughter. With her husband in LA, she realizes how important life really is and being alone, she longs to have her daughter back.
- DirectorJosé BuilStarsHéctor BonillaHéctor OrtegaMaría RojoA sports journalist is assigned to discover the truth behind the mask of "El Angel Enmascarado" (The Masked Angel), a very popular and recently deceased wrestler.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsEduardo López RojasMalena DoriaArcelia RamírezOld bachelor Benjamin (Lopez Rojas) still lives with his sister Micaela (Doria) in the boredom of a small town. His only entertainment is getting together with a bunch of old men and spare time playing like children. Benjamin falls inlove with beautiful and young Natividad (Ramirez). First, he writes love letters for her. Then, when this strategy fails, Benjamin and the old men plan to abduct her and wait for her falling inlove.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio BrookA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
- DirectorGuita SchyfterStarsClaudette MailléMaya MishalskaAngélica AragónTwo Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s.
- DirectorRoberto SneiderStarsDamián AlcázarJosé Carlos RuizPedro Armendáriz Jr.After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos (Alcazar) runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano, where he has relatives. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his, and that the complexities of small-town life are richer (and more dangerous) than his apparently sophisticated life in the big city.
- DirectorErnesto RimochStarsBruno BichirMariana LecuonaÁlvaro GuerreroNarrated by flashbacks during the edition of a home tape of a wedding, as the brother of the bride sees it. During the party, the father of the bride looses the money that would pay for the wedding. He has a very bad memory, so his wife thinks he hid it on a place he doesnt remember. However, the brother and the husband think it is a theft. The editing of the tape later on, shows the guilty person, with unexpected consequences.
- DirectorCarlos MarcovichStarsYuliet OrtegaFabiola QuirozJorge QuirozCinematographer Carlos Macovich met Yuliet Ortega, a young "jinetera" (prostitute) from Havana, when he shot a video in Cuba, starring model Fabiola Quiroz. When he realized that the two women had not seen their respective fathers for many years, he made this documentary, which is also a reflection on the process of filmmaking.
- DirectorCarlos BoladoStarsDamián AlcázarJesús OchoaFernando Torre LaphamDamian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After he accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to find peace and to reconnect with his family roots. Assisted by local guide Arce, Damian locates his grandmother's resting place and searches for redemption through a long trek in the arid wilderness of his ancestral land.
- DirectorJuan Carlos RulfoStarsJuan José ArreolaManuel CosíoClara Aparicio de RulfoJuan Carlos Rulfo, the son of the acclaimed Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo (1917 - 1986), travels to the plains of Jalisco in search of his father.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsEmilio EchevarríaGael García BernalGoya ToledoAn amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
- DirectorGerardo TortStarsLuis Fernando PeñaMaya ZapataArmando HernándezAuthentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
- DirectorJuan Carlos MartínStarsGabriel Orozco
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsAlejandro FerretisMagdalena FloresYolanda VillaA painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
- DirectorFernando EimbckeStarsDiego CatañoDaniel MirandaEnrique ArreolaFlama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery. The electricity company, Rita, the neighbor, Ulises, a pizza deliveryman, eleven seconds, the Real Madrid-Manchester game, some chocolate brownies and a horrible painting of ducks, all combine to break the harmony of what promised to be a placid Sunday, and reveal issues such as the parents' divorce, loneliness, the confusion between adolescent love and friendship, as well as frustration in adult life. "Temporada de Patos" is a movie that shows that, when the lights go off, we can see the stars.
- DirectorRicardo BenetStarsDavid Aarón EstradaMayahuel del MonteMartín PalomaresMartin sets out from his village to Mexico City, where he looks to save his family from their predetermined existence.
- DirectorFrancisco VargasStarsÁngel TaviraGerardo TaracenaDagoberto GamaIn an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson. Can the old man ferry out the ammunition in his violin case under the soldiers' nose?
- DirectorErnesto ContrerasStarsCecilia SuárezEnrique ArreolaMagali BoysselleMarina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsRegina CardoFlorencia Vega MoctezumaMy grandmother??s lodging house situated at the corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. When I was ten years old I met one of them. His name was Jorge Riosse. My grand mother remembers him as a very special young man that filled up her life with art and love. But she also suspects that he murdered a dozen women.
- DirectorMariana ChenilloStarsFernando LujánEnrique ArreolaAri BrickmanThis story begins when José finds out that Nora, the woman he'd been married to for 30 years and then divorced, has committed suicide. The rabbi explains to José that due to the celebration of the Passover festivities, together with a few other factors, if Nora is not buried that same day, they will have to wait almost five days to be able to carry out the burial. It turns out that before she died, Nora had devised a Machiavellian plan in order for him to take care of her funeral. But she missed something, a mysterious photograph left under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome which will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places.
- DirectorMichael RoweStarsMónica Del CarmenGustavo Sánchez ParraMarco ZapataLaura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.
- DirectorEverardo GoutStarsCarlos BardemKristyan FerrerTenoch HuertaMexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.
- DirectorPaula MarkovitchStarsPaula Galinelli HertzogLaura AgorrecaViviana SuranitiCeci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?
- DirectorDiego Quemada-DiezStarsBrandon LópezRodolfo DomínguezKaren MartínezA road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.
- DirectorClaudia Sainte-LuceStarsLisa OwenXimena AyalaSonia FrancoMartha, a single mother of four children, lets Claudia move into her home. As Claudia bonds with the family, Martha's health slowly deteriorates.
- DirectorAlonso RuizpalaciosStarsTenoch HuertaSebastián AguirreIlse SalasTomas is too much for his lone mother so she sends him to live with his older brother Federico, aka Sombra, in Mexico City.
- DirectorGabriel RipsteinStarsTim RothKristyan FerrerMónica Del CarmenArnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons for a deadly Mexican cartel. ATF agent Hank Harris attempts to apprehend him, but gets kidnapped by Rubio, instead. Rubio takes him to his bosses, but during the 600-mile-long drive, they slowly befriend.
- DirectorFederico CecchettiStarsLuciano BautistaAdrián CarreónAlexander HoltmannNieri is a young native Huichol whose dream is to travel with his band and play in a concert in Mexico City. But his father, a shaman Huichol, has other plans for him.
- DirectorDiego RosStarsLeonardo AlonsoAri GallegosHéctor HoltenA night guard has to deal with a bizarre and improbable series of events in the most important night of his life.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsGabriela CartolAgustina QuinciTeresa SánchezA look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City's most luxurious hotels.
- DirectorDavid ZonanaStarsLuis AlbertiHugo MendozaJonathan SánchezAfter the death of one of his co-workers, Francisco and a group of builders will seek justice not only for the null compensation received by the owner of the house, but also for a life full of worries, contrasts and oppression.
- DirectorFernanda ValadezStarsMercedes HernándezDavid IllescasJuan Jesús VarelaA mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
- DirectorÁngeles CruzStarsSonia CouohNoé HernándezMyriam BravoChabela, Maria and Toña, live in a Mixtecan town, where they have to confront their own sexuality.
- DirectorMichelle Garza CerveraStarsNatalia SoliánAlfonso DosalMayra BatallaValeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she's pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something's off.