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LA COCINA
LA COCINA

• Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
• MEXICO, USA / 2024 / DCP / B&W and Colour / 139’ / Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Alonso Ruizpalacios
• Director of Photography: Juan Pablo Ramírez
• Editing: Yibrán Asuad
• Music: Tomás Barreiro
• Cast: Raúl Briones Carmona, Rooney Mara, Anna Diaz, Motell Foster, Oded Fehr
• Producer: Ramiro Ruiz, Gerardo Gatica, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Lauren Mann, Ivan Orlic
• Production Co.: Filmadora, Panorama, Astrakan, Seine Pictures, Fifth Season
• World Sales: HanWay Films
• Turkish Rights: Mars Film

It’s the lunch rush at The Grill in Manhattan, and money has gone missing from the till. All the undocumented cooks are being investigated, and Pedro is the prime suspect. He’s a dreamer and a troublemaker, and in love with Julia, an American waitress. Rashid, The Grill’s owner, has promised to help Pedro with his papers so he can ‘become legal.’ But a shocking revelation about Julia compels Pedro to spiral into an act that will stop the production line of one of the city’s busiest kitchens once and for all. An ‘anti-food-porn film’ based on a stage play by Arnold Wesker, La Cocina is a tragic and comic tribute to the invisible people who keep our restaurants running and our stomachs full. Premiered at the Berlinale, La Cocina is the most recent film by Mexican director Alonzo Ruizpalacios, who has directed Gueros and Museo which were screened at the Festival, and the series Narcos: Mexico.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.