I caught "El Violin" on Thursday night at the Milwaukee International Film Festival. After reading the one-paragraph description of it in the MIFF program, I knew it sounded like something that would, ...

MEXICO CITY — It took months, but Mexicans finally are getting to see the movie that some here have called the country’s most socially significant work of cinema in many moons. Even before it arrived ...

HUELVA, Spain — In a rare consensus between local critics and a festival jury in Spain, Mexican Francisco Vargas Quevedo’s “El violin” took the film award at the 32nd Huelva Ibero-American Film ...

Two new movies - Barbie and Oppenheimer - debuted at the top of the weekend box office. Click to find out which other movies remained in the top five. Oscar De La Hoya talks about being forced into ...

Expanded from an award-winning short, Francisco Vargas’ debut is a superbly judged, neo-realist study of resistance during Mexico’s peasant revolts of the 1970s. Driven from their village, farmer Don ...

Filmmaker Francisco Vargas makes his feature-film debut with this expansion of his well-received short film detailing the struggle between the peasants and military in 1970s-era Mexico.

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