"La caja"

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Image courtesy of Americana Film Festival

After winning the Golden Lion in Venice for his last fiction film, From Afar (2015), Lorenzo Vigas returns to drama with a brutal and austere feature set in Mexico this time. With his film The Box (La Caja), Vigas returns to top-tier festivals such as Venice and San Sebastian.

Hatzín, an orphan who lives with his sick grandmother, travels north with the intention of getting hold of his father’s remains, found in a mass grave. On his journey, he meets Mario, a man whom he initially confuses with his deceased father. Mario takes him under his wing and Hatzín finds himself both fascinated and repelled by him, partly because of his new job, which consists of recruiting immigrants to work in large sweatshops, in poor conditions. Hatzín’s inner struggle to find out what kind of person he is just beginning.

Film will be screened in Spanish.

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