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| BEST OF THE FEST
You asked. We listened.
Missed one of the film everyone was talking about? Couldn’t get a ticket before it sold out? Best of the Fest is your second chance!
We’re bringing back three audience favorites from the 18th Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival for one final night.
Friday, October 2
The Montalbán Theater
Spanish with English Subtitles
| CLOSING NIGHT - Outdoor Movie + Concert
A MARTE
Join us for one final night of Mexican cinema as the 18th annual Hola México Film Festival closes with a special outdoor screening of AMARTE at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.
A MARTE is a romantic comedy about a famous telenovela actress and an unexpected companion whose chance encounter turns into a funny, chaotic escape and maybe something neither of them saw coming.
The evening will also feature a live performance by Spaghetti Cumbia, bringing the music and fiesta to Closing Night. 💃🏽🎶
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
Venue: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Featuring: AMARTE + live performance by Spaghetti Cumbia
One last movie. One last fiesta. Nos vemos ahí. ✨🇲🇽
NOCHE DE CLAUSURA ✨
Acompáñanos para una última noche de cine mexicano mientras despedimos la 18ª edición del Hola México Film Festival con una proyección especial al aire libre de AMARTE en LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.
AMARTE es una comedia romántica sobre una famosa actriz de telenovelas y un inesperado compañero cuyo encuentro termina convirtiéndose en una divertida y caótica aventura… y quizá en algo que ninguno de los dos vio venir.
Y la noche no termina con la película.
También tendremos una presentación en vivo de Spaghetti Cumbia, poniendo la música y la fiesta a nuestra Noche de Clausura.
Ven a celebrar con nosotros, disfruta el ambiente y ayúdanos a despedir otro gran año de Hola México como se debe.
Fecha: Sábado, 3 de octubre de 2026
Lugar: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Presentando: AMARTE + presentación en vivo de Spaghetti Cumbia
Una última película. Una última fiesta. Nos vemos ahí.
| OPENING NIGHT - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Loco México Mágico
Alvarado is ready for its Hollywood close-up!
An eccentric mayor. A homemade Hollywood epic. A town ready for its close-up. What could possibly go wrong?
Join us for Opening Night at the historic Montalbán Theatre. Hollywood’s first Broadway-style theater and today a vibrant home for Latino arts and for a hilarious trip to Alvarado, Veracruz.
After the screening, take the celebration to the rooftop at our official Opening Night After-Party (21+), featuring complimentary food and drinks with filmmakers, special guests, and fellow film lovers under the Hollywood sky.
Film Only or Film + After-Party (21+) tickets available.
¡Alvarado está listo para su gran momento en Hollywood!
Un alcalde excéntrico. Una película de Hollywood hecha en casa. Un pueblo listo para su primer plano. ¿Qué podría salir mal?
Acompáñanos en nuestra Noche de Inauguración en el histórico Montalbán Theatre—el primer teatro estilo Broadway de Hollywood y hoy un vibrante hogar para las artes latinas—para vivir un divertidísimo viaje a Alvarado, Veracruz.
Después de la función, la celebración continúa en el rooftop con nuestra Fiesta Oficial de Inauguración (21+), con comida y bebidas de cortesía junto a cineastas, invitados especiales y amantes del cine bajo el cielo de Hollywood.
Elige entre un boleto únicamente para la película o la experiencia completa de Película + Fiesta.
| MEXICO AHORA
A silenced journalist reopens the investigation that shattered her life, confronting a corrupt power and the devastating cost of looking away.
Across the highways of northern Mexico, a drifter and a guarded trucker find an unexpected refuge in each other until the past begins gaining ground.
A frustrated filmmaker puts on a legendary blond wig and watches his pitch, his identity, and the movie itself mutate into glorious absurdity.
After five rehabs and a lifetime of dodging adulthood, Raffi decides sobriety might finally be worth it, if it can impress the one who got away.
An absent father turns a shipwrecked family vacation into an elaborate survival stunt, hoping one outrageous lie can win back his children.
Beneath the flight of migrating monarchs, a Haitian family builds a fragile refuge in a Mexican forest threatened by danger, memory, and disappearance.
With retirement arriving and his marriage slipping away, Juan takes one awkward step onto the dance floor and another toward a second chance.
When obscene graffiti threatens his job, an aging school janitor fights to protect the dignity and fragile life a lifetime of work should have earned him.
When his mother decides to marry his childhood bully, Martín responds with a spectacularly indecent revenge plot and absolutely no respect for healthy boundaries.
When the magnetic girl across the street disappears, three true-crime-obsessed kids discover the adult world is more frightening than any monster.
| DOCUMENTAL
Before her name became a law, Olimpia Coral Melo had to reclaim it and transform a private wound into a movement for justice.
Filmed over nine years, an astonishingly intimate journey into the love, danger, and fragile new life of a Caribbean flamingo colony.
A cinematic excavation of Los Olvidados that returns to Buñuel’s locations, Goya’s shadows, and the living social wounds his masterpiece refused to forget.
Behind the glory of Cruz Azul, a decade-long fight for control of its cooperative unfolds with the betrayals, money, and danger of a true-crime thriller.
After selling out six historic concerts at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, Zoé brings the experience to the big screen.
| NOCTURNO
After losing her son, a grieving mother is visited by something wearing his face—and grief may be the only door it needs.
An influencer fakes a haunting for views, then discovers the entity inside her apartment is very real and ready for its close-up.
A white origami rabbit draws two haunted investigators into the meticulously violent game of a serial killer determined to make them part of his design.
| Hola Niños
Marked as an outsider, a young warrior must descend into Mictlán and embrace the power others fear before the Fifth Sun goes dark.
| SERIES SHOWCASE
Two bold new series. One exclusive day on the big screen.
Experience special presentations of EL JUICIO and PREFIERO LA MUERTE, featuring in-person introductions and conversations with their creators and special guests.
Sunday, September 27 · The Culver Theater
Limited tickets on sale now
When an elite businessman’s son is accused of assault, two fathers wage an all-out war where the line between justice and vengeance completely dissolves.
Surviving high school is brutal enough, until a zombie bite turns an awkward teen outcast into his town’s most undead hero.
| SPECIAL SHOWCASE
Los Olvidados
Mexico City is growing, modernizing, and looking toward the future. In its shadows, an entire generation of children has already been left behind.