Movies: Fernando Balzaretti

In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he dec...

The life and execution of Gertrudis Bocanegra, a sympathizer of the libertarian cause and a prominent figure in Mexico's independence from Spain....

Esteban and María are a young couple of lovers, both belonging to aristocratic families. When María announces she's moving to London to study, the sullen Esteban decides to follow her, and both opt to steal from their parents to escape and be free, w...

Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the wi...

One couple (Carlos & Irene) are having troubles, because he suspects that Irene's hiding something about her past in Russia. To make things worst her ex-husband goes to Mexico and tells Carlos that her other ex-husband also is going to claim her as h...

Towards the end of the 1950s, a young homosexual faced life, society, a dominant mother, and a conservative home....

A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then......

Rich entomologist René is accepted by a group of young rebels on the condition that they organize parties with his money. One day he proposes a game in which each one must get rid of the most valuable thing they have....

Three short films about intimacy, infidelity and life as a couple (or almost)...

An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?...

Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, ...

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs....

The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s. Some years later, the friends meet again. Rolo has turned into a guerrilla fighter, Boby into a businessman and Chino into an embittered and solitary man...

The drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early twentieth century. The Rebellion of the Hanged is the intense story of the rise of the oppressed pawns and their struggle to achieve freedom and independence....

Three boys, after participating in the events of 1968 in Mexico, find themselves in the need to get away from the social struggle...

A surreal and horseless approach to classic western tropes....