Ariel a Mejor Ópera Prima
El Premio Ariel a Mejor Ópera Prima es un premio otorgado anualmente por la Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC). Se otorga en honor a la mejor primera película de un cineasta.
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- DirectorRaúl AraizaStarsErnesto Gómez CruzRaúl RamírezAarón HernánA young filmmaker travels to Chiapas to film natives of Lacandona Jungle. In spite of being financed by the censorious Mexican Government, he expects that some of the truth about the living conditions of poor native people come to surface.
- DirectorFernando VallejoStarsMario SaavedraGerardo VigilCarlos CardánIt tells the story of a young gambling enthusiast who becomes involved in the murder of two customs guards.
- DirectorGerardo PardoStarsClaudio BrookDiana BrachoMarta Aura
- DirectorJosé Luis García AgrazStarsGonzalo VegaBlanca GuerraWolf RuvinskisA promising boxer on the rise meets his fate when he get's involved with the organized crime, being chased by gang members and the police in one rough night.
- DirectorAlberto CortésStarsJuan Carlos ColomboEmilio CortésAlonso EchánoveMaria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.
- DirectorRoberto Rochín
- DirectorBusi CortésStarsPedro Armendáriz Jr.Dolores BeristáinDiana BrachoAn elder woman (Romelia), her daughter and her grandchildren take a few days on holidays to visit a small town outside the city. The town makes Romelia melancholy and her daughter wants to find out about the mystery of her unknown father.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsLeticia HuijaraAlejandra CerrilloMartha NavarroLola is a struggling saleswoman with problems, causing her to ask her mother to take care of her young daughter. With her husband in LA, she realizes how important life really is and being alone, she longs to have her daughter back.
- DirectorJosé BuilStarsHéctor BonillaHéctor OrtegaMaría RojoA sports journalist is assigned to discover the truth behind the mask of "El Angel Enmascarado" (The Masked Angel), a very popular and recently deceased wrestler.
- DirectorCarlos CarreraStarsEduardo López RojasMalena DoriaArcelia RamírezOld bachelor Benjamin (Lopez Rojas) still lives with his sister Micaela (Doria) in the boredom of a small town. His only entertainment is getting together with a bunch of old men and spare time playing like children. Benjamin falls inlove with beautiful and young Natividad (Ramirez). First, he writes love letters for her. Then, when this strategy fails, Benjamin and the old men plan to abduct her and wait for her falling inlove.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsFederico LuppiRon PerlmanClaudio BrookA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
- DirectorGuita SchyfterStarsClaudette MailléMaya MishalskaAngélica AragónTwo Mexican Jewish girls of come of age in Mexico City during the 1960s.
- DirectorRoberto SneiderStarsDamián AlcázarJosé Carlos RuizPedro Armendáriz Jr.After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos (Alcazar) runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano, where he has relatives. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his, and that the complexities of small-town life are richer (and more dangerous) than his apparently sophisticated life in the big city.
- DirectorErnesto RimochStarsBruno BichirMariana LecuonaÁlvaro GuerreroNarrated by flashbacks during the edition of a home tape of a wedding, as the brother of the bride sees it. During the party, the father of the bride looses the money that would pay for the wedding. He has a very bad memory, so his wife thinks he hid it on a place he doesnt remember. However, the brother and the husband think it is a theft. The editing of the tape later on, shows the guilty person, with unexpected consequences.
- DirectorCarlos MarcovichStarsYuliet OrtegaFabiola QuirozJorge QuirozCinematographer Carlos Macovich met Yuliet Ortega, a young "jinetera" (prostitute) from Havana, when he shot a video in Cuba, starring model Fabiola Quiroz. When he realized that the two women had not seen their respective fathers for many years, he made this documentary, which is also a reflection on the process of filmmaking.
- DirectorCarlos BoladoStarsDamián AlcázarJesús OchoaFernando Torre LaphamDamian is a married artist living in Los Angeles with his wife. After he accidentally hits a woman with his car and flees the scene, he seeks atonement and travels alone to Mexico, both to find peace and to reconnect with his family roots. Assisted by local guide Arce, Damian locates his grandmother's resting place and searches for redemption through a long trek in the arid wilderness of his ancestral land.
- DirectorJuan Carlos RulfoStarsJuan José ArreolaManuel CosíoClara Aparicio de RulfoJuan Carlos Rulfo, the son of the acclaimed Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo (1917 - 1986), travels to the plains of Jalisco in search of his father.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsEmilio EchevarríaGael García BernalGoya ToledoAn amateur dog fighter, a supermodel, and a derelict assassin, all separately struggling to find love, find their lives transformed by a devastating car wreck in Mexico City.
- DirectorGerardo TortStarsLuis Fernando PeñaMaya ZapataArmando HernándezAuthentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.