Desire (2012)

Director
Antonio Zavala Kugler

Main cast
Ari Borovoy; Lila Downs; Paulina Gaitan; Paola Nuñez; Edith González

Genres
Drama

Description
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.


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