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THE UNTAMED

CLASSIFICATION: C

LA REGIÓN SALVAJE (2016, dir. Amat Escalante) 2016 | Color | 100 min.

Direction: Amat Escalante

Script: Amat Escalante | Gibrán Portela

Production: Fernanda de la Peza | Amat Escalante | Jaime Romandía

Production Company: Mantarraya Producciones y Tres Tunas

Photography: Manuel Alberto Claro

Edition: Fernanda de la Peza | Jacob Schulsinger

Sound: Vincent Arnardi | Sergio Díaz | Raúl Locatelli

Music: Martín Escalante | Lasse Marhaug | Guro Moe

Cast: Simone Bucio | Jesús Meza | Ruth Ramos | Edén Villavicencio

Art Direction: Daniela Schneider

FICM Awards: Warrior Award of the Press | Mexican Feature Film Section

Year of participation at FICM: 2016

SYNOPSIS: Alejandra is a working housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel in a small city. Her brother Fabian works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of mysterious Veronica. Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and male chauvinism exist. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems. Something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath.