Golpe de suerte
A bureaucrat gets help from a union leader to obtain housing and credit but struggles to pay for them after he gets fired from his job.
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Marcela Fernández Violante
The perpetual spirals of pleasure and power.
A taxi driver goes missing after driving a passenger out of town.
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
An actor blurs reality and fiction with the character he plays in a soap opera.
Student short film. Unknown plot
What would have been Fernández Violante's first feature film, its production was halted due to the events of 1968. Presumably converted into a short film. It is considered lost.
Student short film. Unknown plot.
Eugenia Ramírez is a succesful divorced dentist. She goes out on a business trip only to find her appartment robbed when she returns. Her life soon changes.
Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
Film that chronicles the adventures of a white child or "chavochi" in the Sierra Tarahumara in the State of Chihuahua, the film denounces the timber and the misery of the Tarahumara Indians.
