Nicolás Echevarría

Tzintzuntzan (2024)

Tzintzuntzan is the name of a town in Michoacán, Mexico. At Easter, so-called "spies" roam the streets on horseback, tirelessly searching for Jesus, house by house. Their intention is to arrest, condemn, torture and sacrifice him. This ancient tradition c ...

Echo of the Mountain (2015)

Echo of the Mountain takes a look at the life and work of Santos de la Torre, a great Huichol artist who, like his people, lives in oblivion. Despite having made a great mural for the metro station Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre, Santos lives isolated a ...

The Return of the Dead (2015)

The Return of the Dead is a story about human condition and repentance. This documentary is the story of a tormented man, Don Rosendo, who has been haunted by his past and in the dawn of his life tries to find a sense for his existence. This story happens ...

Juanicas (2014)

Juanicas is an intimate portrait of a Mexican immigrant family in Quebec affected by mental illness. Using material shot over almost 10 years, the filmmaker documents her complex relationship with her mother and brother, both suffering from bipolar disorde ...

The 68 Memorial (2008)

Documentary that talks about the events that occurred on October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where thousands of students were killed during a rally. ...

Life Kills (2002)

A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning aft ...

Enemies (1996)

Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian trib ...

Appalachian Journey (1991)

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, f ...

Sor Juana Inez de la cruz (1988)

Drama written by Octavio Paz. ...

De la calle (1988)

Mexican feature film ...

El niño Fidencio, el taumaturgo de Espinazo (1982)

People from throughout Mexico and the southern United States used to gather at the hacienda El Espinazo to meet with this healer. Was he a charlatan, or a prophet who in many ways surpassed the procedures of modern medicine? ...

The Day Pedro Infante Died (1982)

Pablo Rueda, a frustrated writer and artist, wanders through Mexico City in a labyrinth of dreams and memories that may or may not be those of his novels. ...

Flor y canto (1981)

José Clemente Orozco, pintor del hombre (1980)

A document that summarizes images of the energetic Mexican muralist's most significant works, using rhythmic montages that reflect the prevailing mood of each of his pictorial periods and a complex soundtrack composed of effects and various orchestral and ...

Teshuinada, semana santa Tarahumara (1979)

Documentary about Tarahumara religious observances around Easter time. ...

Peasant Poets (1979)

Maria Sabina, Spirit Woman (1978)

Documentary portrait of a religious healer, and her shamanic mushroom-cult belief system. ...

Mexico Mobile Cinema (1976)

Documentary showing the efforts to bring cinema to marginalized communities in Mexico. ...

Judea (1974)

Sunka Raku (Alegría Evanescente) (2015)

It's a life told in four seasons. It is the orbit of a man who comes close to and steps back from the light, experiencing weather transformations in the garden of the soul. A documentary about the meticulous construction of Japanese tea houses in the Mexic ...

Quiero caminar contigo (2014)

Santiago is a young man who unexpectedly has an accident that leaves him in a wheelchair. Losing his "friends", his girlfriend and getting bullied at school. When all seems lost, he meets Mateo, a new exchange student, who is gay and defends him from bully ...