From an Alien Love Story to a Treasure Hunt: 10 Must-See Movies at Hola Mexico Film Festival
'Camino a Marte'. Courtesy of Los Cabos Film Festival
The Hola Mexico Film Festival is celebrating its 10th year anniversary in style. From its papel picado poster art to its decision to screen three groundbreaking Mexican films at the Montalbán Theater’s rooftop, the Los Angeles-based fest is further cementing itself as an event like no other. As usual, audiences will be greeted with both mainstream and indie films from across the border that encompass the broad range of talent that can be found in Mexico.
This year’s fest is opening with Javier Colinas’ rom-com A ti te quería encontrar (I Was Looking For You), which stars Sense8 and Ingobernable‘s Eréndira Ibarra and closes out with the prison/dance drama Sacúdete las penas. In between you’ll be able to spend your evenings watching horror films about kids who see ghosts, lo-fi sci-fi rom-coms (or vacation horror dramas) starring Luis Gerardo Mendez, and even documentaries about the perils of commuting. Better still, if you’ve yet to catch Y tu mamá también, El laberinto del fauno, or Amores perros on the big screen, Hola Mexico’s 10th Anniversary Rooftop screenings can easily help you remedy that.
To celebrate this great milestone, we’ve singled out ten titles screening at this year’s fest that you should check out. Find them all below.
Hola Mexico Film Festival runs June 1-9, 2018.
