24 Sep 18th Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival presents MÉXICO AHORA section of the festival
Jane / Juana (2026)
1 hour 41 minutes / Spanish
Director: Daniel Giménez Cacho
Cast: Diana Sedano, Margarita Sanz, Francisco Barreiro, Arturo Ríos, Antonio Fortier
At 45, Juana has spent more than a decade surviving through silence. Her days have narrowed to an unfulfilling job at the Siglo XXI newspaper, visits with her mother in a nursing home, and the daily effort of keeping her panic attacks under control. Then an assignment brings back a name she thought she had buried: Pedro Núñez, a corrupt politician connected to a criminal network and to the murders of her boyfriend and a fellow journalist. Returning to the investigation means confronting far more than a powerful man. It forces Juana into the memories, wounds, and compromises that have shaped her life.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWEiRiLu7D0
DATE & TIME
Saturday Sept. 26, 2026. 2:30 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Sunday Sept. 27, 2026. 7:15 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 9), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
1 hour 33 minutes / Spanish
Director: David Pablos
Cast: Victor Prieto Simental, Osvaldo Sánchez, Mariano López Sosa, Héctor Cárdenas, Obdulia Morales
Northern Mexico. Endless highways, glowing truck stops, and long nights measured in miles. Veneno, a rebellious young drifter, survives through roadside diners and fleeting encounters. Desperate for a ride, he persuades Muñeco, a guarded long-haul trucker, to take him across northern Mexico. In a world of engines, truck stops, unspoken rules, hard-edged masculinity and danger that never feels far away, their uneasy companionship slowly becomes an unexpected intimacy. But with every mile, the ghosts of Veneno’s past draw closer and threaten the fragile refuge the two men have found in each other.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_f5-U8PyLE
DATE & TIME
Saturday Sept. 26, 2026. 7:00 pm
Monday Sept. 28, 2026. 7:30 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
1 hour 10 minutes / Spanish
Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter
Cast: Luis Gerardo Méndez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Silverio Palacios, María Evoli, Gabino Rodríguez
Silvestre has spent seven years trying to make a three-hour epic about Benito Juárez. All he needs is money. Unfortunately, the millionaire who invites him to pitch the project has plans of his own. Ricky’s country house is less a meeting place than a trapdoor into the absurd: a surreal garden, a perpetually naked stranger, an ex-girlfriend, a lawyer with opinions about Silvestre’s divorce, and waiting like a sacred object, a blond wig said to have belonged to a nineteenth-century Florentine poet. Once the wig goes on, the pitch begins to mutate. So does Silvestre.
DATE & TIME
Saturday Sept. 26, 2026. 5:00 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Sunday Sept. 27, 2026. 9:30 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 9), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
1 hour 38 minutes / Spanish
Director: Alfonso Pineda Ulloa
Cast: Mauricio Ochmann, Memo Villegas, Irán Castillo, Farah Justiniani, Ana Gonzalez Bello
A workaholic used car dealer in Mexico City neglects his four children from two marriages. After a wake-up call, he plans a Caribbean yacht trip to bond with them, but things go wrong when they end up adrift at sea.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfaQdViq6eE
DATE & TIME
Saturday Sept. 26, 2026. 4:00 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 9), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Sunday Sept. 27, 2026. 2:30 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Thursday Oct. 1, 2026. 7:30 pm
@ Cinépolis Cinemas Pico Rivera, 8540 Whittier Blvd, Pico Rivera, CA 90660. Buy Tickets
The Garden We Dreamed / El Jardín que soñamos (2026)
1 hour 42 minutes / Spanish
Director: Joaquín del Paso
Reparto: Néhémie Bastien, Faustin Pierre, Kimaëlle Holly Preville, Ruth Aicha Pierre Nelson, Carlos Esquivel
Esther and Junior, a Haitian couple traveling north with Esther’s daughters, Flor and Aisha, find temporary refuge in a remote forest in central Mexico. There, beneath the path of migrating Monarch butterflies, they create a fragile world of tenderness, play, and possibility. But as illegal logging closes in and the weight of Junior’s past begins to surface, Esther must hold the family together while the forest around them is slowly torn apart. Because even in a disappearing forest… love will always search for a place to take root.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miQMgkt6WvA
DATE & TIME
Sunday Sept. 27, 2026. 7:30 pm
Monday Sept. 28, 2026. 5:00 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Bailando Solo (2026)
1 hour 30 minutes / Spanish
Director: J Gilberto González Penilla
Cast: Hernán Mendoza, Carmen Beato, Tiaré Scanda, Alexis Ayala
What do you do when retirement arrives, your wife walks out and the only thing standing between you and a second chance is your complete inability to dance? After years of routine and passivity, Juan suddenly finds himself without a job, without a partner and with absolutely no rhythm. Determined to win her back, he steps onto the dance floor, where every awkward move pushes him beyond the life he thought he knew. Between bruised pride, clumsy lessons and the challenge of starting over, Juan may discover that learning to dance is about much more than following the beat. Because sometimes, the hardest step… is the first one.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omPSBrstXO0
DATE & TIME
Thursday Oct. 1, 2026. 7:15 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 9), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
The Janitor / El Conserje (2026)
1 hour 33 minutes / Spanish
Directors: Mauro Mueller & David Figueroa Garcia
Cast: Humberto Yañez, Luisa Huertas, Mercedes Hernández, Fermín Martínez, Jorge Briseño
Closing in on 80, Ricardo struggles to balance his work as a janitor at a public elementary school with caring for Ana, his wife, after a devastating stroke. Ready to retire, he discovers that the pension he earned after a lifetime of work is nowhere near enough to survive. Then obscene graffiti begins appearing across the school, and the impossible task of finding the culprit falls on him. As the pressure mounts, a seemingly minor act threatens his job, his dignity and the fragile life he has fought so hard to protect. Because when the system has already taken almost everything… even one small mark can erase a lifetime of sacrifice.
DATE & TIME
Saturday Sept. 26, 2026. 6:45 pm / Friday Oct. 2, 2026. 9:30 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 9), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Sunday Sept. 27, 2026. 5:00 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
1 hour 28 minutes / Spanish
Director: Emiliano Rocha Minter
Cast: Luis Gerardo Méndez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Silverio Palacios, María Evoli, Gabino Rodríguez
When Martín learns that his mother is going to marry Juan, the bully who tormented him as a child, he does what any son would do: sabotage the wedding… by sleeping with Juan’s mother.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqPj24Gfn0
DATE & TIME
Thursday Oct. 1, 2026. 9:45 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Friday Oct. 2, 2026. 10:35 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 8), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
Jardines del Bosque (2026)
1 hour 30 minutes / Spanish
Directors: Alex Barragan & Diego Barragán
Cast: Maximiliano Nájar Márquez, Fiona Palomo, Beto Ramírez, Daphne Ximena Méndez Sevilla, Cristo Fernández
In Jardines del Bosque, an ordinary middle-class neighborhood in Guadalajara, Santos, Lechuga, and Daniela spend their preteen days feeding an obsession with mysteries and true crime. Then Arlette moves into the house across the street. Older, magnetic, and seemingly fearless, she becomes the center of their attention and, for Santos, the beginning of something that feels a lot like love. When Arlette disappears and the adults around them seem strangely willing to move on, the three friends decide to investigate. Armed with her abandoned tablet, a video camera, and the absolute confidence of children who believe every mystery must have an answer, they begin reconstructing her private world piece by piece. Their innocent detective game soon leads them toward a reality they are not prepared to understand.
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8e3_3bqdac
DATE & TIME
Thursday Oct. 1, 2026. 9:35 pm
Friday Oct. 2, 2026. 7:00 pm
@ Regal Cinemas LA Live (Theater 9), 1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Buy Tickets
About Hola Mexico Film Festival presentado por Toyota All-Electric Family:
Samuel Douek, Founder & Director of the festival earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Mexico City’s Anahuac University and his master’s degree in Event Management in Sydney, Australia, where he founded Hola Mexico Film Festival. The festival has since grown into the largest of its kind outside of Mexico and is now a celebrated, yearly tradition held in the capital of the worldwide film industry, Los Angeles, CA
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