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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2013

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2013

Mexico Bronco

A special programme of contemporary Mexican Cinema with a focus on how violence is treated in storytelling.

Programme

6 films · 1 review

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Daniel & Ana (Daniel And Ana, Daniel Y Ana)

Review preview for Daniel & Ana

It's hard to know who exactly will willingly sign up to watch quite so much sex couched in quite such a disturbing set up.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
Dramatisation of a true-life ordeal of a brother and sister at the hands of Mexico's underground porn trade.

(Country: Mexico, Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Stars: Dario Yazbek Bernal, Marimar Vega, Chema Torre)

Heli

A man's search for his missing father sees him drawn into a world of drugs and crime.

(Year: 2013; Director: Amat Escalante; Writer: Amat Escalante, Gabriel Reyes)

Hell (El Infierno)

Comedy examining the impact of the drugs war on Mexico.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Luis Estrada )

Los Olvidados (The Young And The Damned)

Violence in the slums of Mexico City.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 1950; Director: Luis Buñuel; Writer: Luis Alcoriza, Max Aub, Luis Buñuel, Juan Larrea, Pedro de Urdimalas; Stars: Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Alma Delia Fuentes, Francisco Jambrina, Jesús Navarro, Efraín Arauz, Sergio Villarreal, Jorge Pérez, Javier Amézcua, Mário Ramírez, Ernesto Alonso, Victorio Blanco, Rubén Campos)

The Mayor (El Alcalde)

Story of a mayor.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2012; Director: Emiliano Altuna, Diego Enrique Osorno, Carlos Rossini; Stars: Mauricio Fernandez)

Narco Cultura

An examination of Mexican drug cartels’ influence in pop culture on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Shaul Schwarz)