Built from intuitive hunches — she calls them “corazonadas” — the work of Mexican writer-director Lila Avilés plays like an invitation into her characters’ most vulnerable states, not to judge them ...

"When will the world end?" An early promo trailer has debuted for an acclaimed indie film from Mexico titled Tótem, one of the few truly excellent films from the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year ...

A farewell party for a terminally ill painter brings out the best and worst in his family, while his 7-year-old daughter tries to make sense of it all, in Mexican director Lila Avilés’ multilayered ...

Signing on to executive produce “Tótem,” the sophomore feature from writer-director Lila Avilés that was chosen to be Mexico’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, was a ...

The heroine of “Tótem,” a new film from the Mexican director Lila Avilés, is a girl by the name of Solecito (Naíma Sentíes), or Sol for short. We are never told her age: seven or eight, perhaps, ...

Sol and her mother Lucia (Iazua Larios) are in the bathroom together at the picture’s raw and authentic start. They are sharing the awkwardness of everyday life that many filmmakers tend to ignore.

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Alpha Violet has posted fresh sales on Mexican director Lila Avilés’s family drama Tótem, which world premiered in competition at the Berlinale to acclaim in February. In new ...

Avilés' deeply personal sophomore effort, which was chosen to be Mexico's Oscar submission, was the only Latin American film to make the Best International Feature Film shortlist. "She captured all of ...