The reputation of director Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958) hasn’t traveled much outside of his native Mexico, and opportunities to see his films in public forums have been meager. A trio of de Fuentes pictures was screened in Texas by the Austin Film Society, and a broader sampling was recently mounted for the Moralia International Film Festival at Michoacán. Writing for the Criterion Collection, a film scholar, Imogen Sara Smith, posited de Fuentes as the harbinger of the época de oro of Mexican cinema. His films, she wrote, are marked by a “humanism that spills over borders and eras like a joyful, unruly throng.”