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2021 | Color | 83:00

From writer-director Michel Franco comes a simmering, suspenseful sharp jolt: Alice and Neil Bennett are the core of a wealthy British family on vacation in Acapulco with younger members Colin and Alexa until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, surprising tensions rise to the fore.


Country: México, Francia, Suecia
Direction: Franco; Michel
Script: Franco; Michel
Production: Castelli; Claudio R.
Photography: Cape; Yves
Sound: Skarp; Niklas, de Icaza; Alejandro
Cast:Goodman; Henry, Larios; Iazua, Kotting McMillan; Albertine, Gainsbourg; Charlotte, Roth; Tim, Bottomley; Samuel
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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Memory

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Silvia works at a public home in New York for adults struggling with mental health conditions. She leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. She meets Saúl when he follows her home after their high school reunion: she finds him drenched and freezing on her doorstep the next morning. Their surprise encounter will have a profound impact on both of them as they open the door to the past.

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New Order

A lavish high-society wedding goes awry when an unexpected uprising gives way to a violent coup d’état. As seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride and the servants who work for—and against— her wealthy family.

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David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Meticulous, efficient, and passionate about his profession, he develops relationships that go beyond the medical context, forging true closeness with his patients. But in his personal life, David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved. It’s clear that he needs his patients as much as they need him.

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