Premios Ariel 2022

A widow who is tormented by the memory of her abusive husband befriends a young man.

A mother may lose custody of her son because she refuses to medicate his ADHD.

Life in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.

Chabela, Maria and Toña, live in a Mixtecan town, where they have to confront their own sexuality.

Two professional actors undergo an immersive process to find out what it takes to be a cop in Mexico City.

An intimate portrait of three generations of a Mexican-American family in California.

The Rastreadoras de El Fuerte are a group of mothers of disappeared persons in northern Sinaloa who, in the absence of the authorities, twice a week go out with picks and shovels in search of the remains of their children.

Beatriz (Silvia Pasquel) and the Old Man (Alejandro Suárez) have been together for decades. A retired homeopathic pharmacist, the Old Man now divides his time between their Mexico City home where he shuffles around in his housecoat, raging against Beatriz, and paying secret visits to his mistress. Beatriz, when not bearing the brunt of the Old Man's tirades, sneaks out to take tango lessons - and to proposition her younger dance partner (Daniel Giménez Cacho). With their children having grown up and abandoned them long ago, the only person left to witness the aging couple's ever-escalating routine is Dinorah (Greta Cervantes), the young maid who will eventually take matters into her own hands.

In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.

The 42-year-old Alicia is a grief-stricken woman, a grief that has caused her to be estranged from society. Her world is turned upside down when a 14-year-old boy who looks after people's cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.

Max returns to her slum turned into the vocalist of a rock band. There, the memories await, the latest news and the truths that were silent for years: Sonia is a voice that speaks from the death, Ramira and Carcacha regent with the neighborhood's misery, and Guama sinks into madness. The reasons for abandonment are evident, the deaths and unfulfilled promises are recap. Max returns to die, not without first understanding and meaning all the reasons that remained pending.

Life for a solitary teenager is altered when his mother brings home her new boyfriend to live with them.

Toto and his friends must rescue his egg children after they're taken away for a gourmet food event in Africa.

Exposes the fault lines and schisms of contemporary Mexican society.

Two 17-year-olds, Félix and Elisa, meet playing the Blue Whale Challenge, fall in love and decide to take on together the game's final challenge: suicide.

Carmen, a brave journalist, discovers soon after her mother's death that she has inherited her grandma's house. She decides to move there without knowing it hides dark secrets.

Ancient Aztec prophecies are fulfilled, after the fall of meteorite fragments and extraterrestrial material that impact the earth. Bizarre events occur, in the different spaces and times of the collisions.

Ernesto saves Gloria's life by crashing his car with hers, however, this causes a chain reaction that will change their lives forever.

The life of a seller of iguana stews at a market and her life in the community.

Death to the summer deals with the loss of dreams and innocence, where small battles like the heartbreak of first love or the stage fright before your first gig, carry such a heavy burden on its characters and their chaotic world. It's a story told from a teenager's point of view, in a violent and dying city where there's still room for hope.

A working-class girl from Guatemala City travels to a small coastal town to infiltrate a gang in order to find her missing sister.

Awaiting a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence, the owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business tries to resolve any problems from his workers in enough time.

The story of Inés, a young woman who after a traumatic episode during a trip with her partner begins to confuse herself between the real and the imaginary.

Two brothers have been in a juvenile prison for a year, dreaming. The arrival of a rebellious young man offers a possible escape: the only door to make those dreams come true.

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.