Directed by Leonor Maldonado • Documentary • 2023 • 87 minutes
M20 Matamoros captures incredible choreography, dancing from the Matachines, and a remarkable street dance performed by a group of young people from Matamoros, Mexico. This documentary also collects the testimonies of a youth that moves between fear, rage, euphoria, and the secrecy of experiencing the violent life of the border.
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Jamaica & Tamarindo: Afro Tradition I...
Directed by Ebony Marie Bailey • Documentary • 2019 • 21 minutes
The Jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico explores African identity in Mexico City, an ide...
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The Luck of Water
Directed by Ignacio Decerega, Cristóbal Jasso • Documentary • 2023 • 64 minutes
The Luck of Water profiles two rivers and a sacred saltwater lagoon system in the indigenous Mixtec, mestizo, and Afro-descendant communities in the Oaxaca’s coastal region in Mexico. For indigenous Mixtec communitie...
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The Weavers' Songs
Directed by Ismael Vásquez Bernabé • Documentary • 2024 • 77 minutes
In San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca, Mexico—known as "the town of the spinners"—director Ismael Vásquez Bernabé returns to the community that shaped him. As a child, Vásquez Bernabé would lie under his mother’s loom and ponder life be...
