4 - 9 December

Tickets $25 - opening night fiesta
$14.50/$12.50 - all other sessions
$60/$50 - Festival pass (any 5 sessions excl. Fiesta)

For more information visit the official
Hola Mexico Film Festival website.

DIR. CARY FUKUNAGA - 96 MIN
Seeking a new life, a beautiful young Honduran woman joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.

The Hola Mexico Film Festival presents the best short films from Mexico's next generation of filmmakers. Include the Golden Palm award winner for best short film at Cannes, Watching It Rain. Experience love, sadness, joy, fear and laughter all in one session.
  

LIGHT OF MY EYES
DIR. GUADALUPE SANCHEZ SOSA 12 MIN

BEYOND THE MEXIQUE BAY
DIR. JEAN-MARC ROUSSEAU RUIZ 17 MIN

OUT OF CONTROL
DIR. SOFIA CARRILLO 11 MIN

END OF THE LINE
DIR. ACAN COEN 11 MIN

BACKGROUND SIRENS
DIR. ARCADI PALERM-ARTIS 10 MIN

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES
DIR. KENYA MARQUEZ 12 MIN

THE CURIOUS CONQUEST OF THE AMP
DIR. RAMON OROZCO 11 MIN

JACINTA
DIR. KARKA CASTANEDA 9 MIN

WATCHING IT RAIN
DIR. ELISA MILLER 14 MIN

DIR. ROBERTO SNEIDER - 107 MIN
Based on the novel by Angeles Mastretta and set against the backdrop of post-revolution Mexico, this film evokes the politics, love, and passion of the 1930’s and 1940’s, telling the story of young Catalina and General Andrés Ascencio.

DIR. ALFONSO PINEDA-ULLOA 86 MIN
Architect Chelo (Mori) has never met a man who could measure up to the lover in her imagination. Determined to bring him into the waking world, she plans a devilish plot to find the man of her dreams. A look at the desperation of finding love, by whatever means necessary!

DIr. RODOLPHO Y GABRIEL RIVA PALACIO - 90 MIN
Follow Toto, Willy and Bibi into their new adventure! Toto a full grown chicken will meet with old and new friends alike. This film is full of double entendres in Spanish making this a cartoon for big kids. Que huevos!

DIR. AMAT ESCALANTE - 90 MIN
A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican day labourers in L.A. Each day another task, each day the same pressure to find money. They go about their daily routine, standing on the corner at the Home Improvement Store waiting for work to come. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages. Today, Jesus carries a shotgun inside his backpack.

DIR. GERARDO NARANJO - 106 MIN
Voy a Explotar narrates the romantic escapades of Roman and Maru, two troubled teenagers who initiate an impossible rebellion against the adult world. Tortured by violent fantasies, and craving the attention of his father, Roman attempts suicide several times.

DIR. EUGENIO POLGOVSKY
At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. “The Inheritors” is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival. These children work farming, sculpting, and labouring in a myriad of other activities. They have inherited tools and techniques from their ancestors, but they have also inherited their day-by-day hardship. Generations pass, and child workers remain captive in a cycle of inherited poverty.

DIR. EMILIO PORTES - 87 MIN
This comedy is set against the backdrop of a not-so-typical Mexican circus, Juan Perez The Magician tries to revive the glory of the fading circus by stealing a 16th century guillotine for use in the final act. What he doesn’t know is that it also carries a deadly curse.

DIR. HUMBERTO HINOJOS - 85 MIN
Two friends that work on a ranch, herding sheep, are fed up with the mistreatment given to them by their boss. They come up with a plan to steal the sheep and sell them at the Mexican-American border. Jeronimo, the boss’s son, will do anything in his power to catch them and not let them get away with anything that someday will rightfully be his.