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Best of The Fests

THE BOX
LA CAJA

• Director: Lorenzo Vigas
• MEXICO, USA / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 92’ / Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Lorenzo Vigas, Paula Markovitch
• Director of Photography: Sergio Armstrong G.
• Editing: Isabela Monteiro de Castro, Pablo Barbieri
• Cast: Hernán Mendoza, Hatzín Navarrete, Elián González, Cristina Zulueta, Dulce Alexa Alfaro, Graciela Beltrán
• Producer: Lorenzo Vigas, Michel Franco, Jorge Hernández Aldanda
• Production Co.: Teorema, SK Global Entertainment
• World Sales: The Match Factory
• Turkish Rights: MUBI

2021 Lisbon & Estoril Grand Jury Prize, Best Screenplay
2021 Venedik Venice UNICEF Prize

Lorenzo Vigas’ final instalment of a fiction trilogy that builds on the theme of the Latin American father follows Hatzin, a young teenager from Mexico City. Hatzin travels to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in a communal grave amidst the huge skies and empty landscape of Northern Mexico. But a casual encounter with a man who shares a physical resemblance with his father fills him with doubts and hope about his parent’s true whereabouts. The Box is written by Lorenzo Vigas, who in 2015 became the first Latin American to ever win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for his debut film Desde allá / From Afar, and Paula Markovitch who is known for The Prize (2011), Duck Season (2004), and Lake Tahoe (2008).

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.