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THE OTHER TOM
EL OTRO TOM

• Director: Laura Santullo, Rodrigo Pla
• MEXICO, ABD / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 111’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Laura Santullo, Rodrigo Pla
• Director of Photography: Odei Zabaleta
• Editing: Miguel Schverdfinger
• Cast: Julia Chávez, Israel Rodríguez Bertorelli
• Producer: Laura Santullo, Rodrigo Plá, Alejandro de Icaza, Gabriela Maldonado
• Production Co.: Buenaventura Cine, BHD Films
• World Sales: Outsider Pictures

2021 Huelva Best Film, Pablo Neruda Award
2021 Morelia Best Direction
2021 Tokyo Best Actress
2021 Warsaw Best Director

Uruguay-born Mexican Rodrigo Plá returns with his first film since A Monster with a Thousand Heads which won the Golden Tulip at Istanbul Film Festival in 2016. Adapted from a novel by Laura Santullo, The Other Tom is Plá's latest collaboration with Santullo, who has worked with him for his earlier films. The Other Tom tells the story of Elena, a working single mother, and her nine-year-old son Tom, who is recently diagnosed with ADHD. Elena cuts the meds off when she thinks they affect Tom badly. But being disruptive, unfocused, and angry, Tom is already stigmatized at school as a 'problem child', and things quickly escalate as both his situation and her relation with Social Services deteriorate.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.