Movies: David Illescas

  • 2021
    Prayers for the Stolen

    Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

    Prayers for the Stolen

    7.62021HD

    In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discov...

    Prayers for the Stolen
  • 2020
    Identifying Features

    Identifying Features (2020)

    Identifying Features

    7.02020HD

    Magdalena makes a journey to find her son, who has disappeared on his way to the Mexican border with the United States. Her odyssey takes her to meet Miguel, a man recently deported from the US. They start to travel together, Magdalena looking for he...

    Identifying Features
  • 2014
    Castle Chronicle

    Castle Chronicle (2014)

    Castle Chronicle

    02014HD

    Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, revealing the social prejudices that manifest themselves in classism and racism, as part of a historic...

    Castle Chronicle
  • 2014
    400 Bags

    400 Bags (2014)

    400 Bags

    8.22014HD

    Magdalena makes a journey to find her missing son, who disappeared on his way to the border with the United States. Accompanied only by her will and her memories, Magdalena enters a violent and desolated territory, the migration route in Mexico....

    400 Bags
  • 2021
    Drunken Birds

    Drunken Birds (2021)

    Drunken Birds

    7.12021HD

    Willy's quest to find Marlena, his lost love, takes him from Mexico to Canada, where he is hired as a seasonal worker at the Bécotte farm, near Montreal. Several destinies intersect, worlds collide, tensions rise and moments of magical realism emerge...

    Drunken Birds
  • 2020
    Extraños en un tren

    Extraños en un tren (2020)

    Extraños en un tren

    02020HD

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    Extraños en un tren
  • 2024
    Cicadas

    Cicadas (2024)

    Cicadas

    02024HD

    Yuli (38) is the Topila (auxiliary police) of San Pablo Begu', a mountain community in Oaxaca where the inhabitants assume the responsibilities of self-government on a rotating basis on an honorary basis (Comunalidad) at the same time as they carry o...

    Cicadas
  • 2021
    Todo lo que fui(mos)

    Todo lo que fui(mos) (2021)

    Todo lo que fui(mos)

    02021HD

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    Todo lo que fui(mos)
  • 1969
    Cumbia for the Dead

    Cumbia for the Dead (1969)

    Cumbia for the Dead

    01969HD

    With his unique gift of communicating with the dead, a cumbia-loving embalmer sets out on a road trip with a corpse, in search of the the deceased hidden money....

    Cumbia for the Dead