Austral Films

Movies from Mexico

For his 50th birthday, Marcos, an obsessive and frustrated writer, receives only an extortion from the Chinese mafia and a wedding invitation from the only girlfriend he ever had, 30 years ago. Tired of his problems and in hopes of seeing his old friends again, Marcos decides to drive across the country to attend the wedding.

As long as he can remember, police agent JESUS JUAREZ, has play the role of the DEVIL himself in the traditional Nativity Play.

However this Christmas, things are about to change when the new priest and director of the play: Father and exorcist EDMUNDO POSADAS, leaves him out of the main cast. CHUCHO will have to establish a fierce battle, between good and evil, to recover what by tradition is his.

Eva is back from her trip to Europe. One afternoon she received a suspicious birthday invitation from a neighbor, she never imagined it was a romantic date a planed by his family, but he didn’t even had food in the fridge.
A comedy about how family can mess up our relationships, the way it interacts and how it doesn’t even stand itself.

On a dry lakebed in 1964, a trucker and his companion find a baby boy at the dry breast of its dead mother. Years later the trucker operates an ice factory in a poor urban district with his son, José, who dreams of one day striking out on his own. Neighbor Felipe, meanwhile, works at an Internet café and another neighbor, Andrés, lives with his alcoholic father but spends his free time studying Mexico’s pre-Columbian golden age.

Silverio Palacios (40) a failed union worker from Veracruz, decides to turn his life around. Tired of earning his money panhandling in the streets, he decides to follow up on a plan that’s been on his friend and union leader: Alacrán’s mind for the longest time. He transforms his old taxi into an improvised raft and sails away on a trip that can change his fate forever.