In Guita Schyfter’s El águila y el gusano, an intricate plot serves to intersect the destinies of several characters: the owner of a beauty salon in love with “all things Chinese”, a politician with a taste for oration who couldn’t care less about the problems of his country, a political adviser whose counsel is never considered and a shady investigator with a name that nobody seems to recall. The script by Schyfter and Hugo Hiriart, her longtime collaborator and author of the 2013 novel on which the film is based, bristles with finely-crafted, hilarious dialogue.

Matriarchal apparitions guide a woman imprisoned for witchcraft, in this enlightened retelling of a famous, centuries-old legend.

Lucía lives with an incurable disease, and Bruno was deported to Mexico with no place to sleep. An unexpected phone call brings them together in an emotional story of overcoming, reconstruction and hope.

To mark his recent appointment, the new Pope prepares for a tour of Latin America, only to find that the Vatican is bankrupt. A rich Mexican woman offers to help out. In return for financing his trip, she demands he attends an event in his honour in the city of Ciudad Juarez – Mexico’s capital of crime. The “guardian angel” turns out to be a drug trafficker, and when she discovers that a lookalike Pope has been sent in his place, confusion, laughter and unexpected chaos ensue.

With Donald Trump's victory imminent, thousands of Haitian migrants in Mexico are rushing toward the northern border before the humanitarian asylum program ends. Jak and his father, who work at a butcher shop in Mexico City, join this race against time after receiving confirmation of their asylum appointment in the United States. But while his father clings to the hope of a new beginning, Jak faces the memory of his mother's death, something he cannot seem to let go of.