09 · 10 · 09 Los bastardos by Amat Escalante, premieres in theaters Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Administrador Selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, the film has also won other awards, including Best Picture in the New Visions section at the Sitges festival, Best Latin American Film at the Festival de Mar de Plata, Best Director at the Bratislava International Film Festival and the Jury' s Special Award at Courmayeur Film Noir Italia. Escalante also received the FIPRESCI International Federation of Film Critics prize at Cannes for his first film Sangre, exhibited at FICM 2005. Los bastardos is about a day in the lives of Jesús and Fausto, two Mexican undocumented workers living in Los Angeles. Tired of living day by day, they decide to do something they' ve never done before, a decision that dramatically changes their destiny.
