Completed - SPANISH - Historical, Social issues, Drama - 120 minutes
A metaphor of Mexico, set in the microcosm of a 100- year old room, allows the film to explore the secret lives of its inhabitants through different decades fromthe beginning of the 20th Century to the dawn of the new millennium.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Carlos CARRERA, Daniel GIMENEZ CACHO, Carlos BOLADO, Ernesto CONTRERAS, Alfonso PINEDA ULLOA, Natalia BERISTAIN, Iván ÁVILA DUEÑAS, Alejandro VALLE Writer(s) : Maria DIEGO HERNANDEZ Cast : Irene JACOB, Kaori MOMOI, Sofia ESPINOSA, Norma PABLO, Kristyan FERRER, Eugenia TEMPESTA, Francisco BARREIRO Producer(s) : Luis SALINAS (MACHETE PRODUCCIONES), Edher CAMPOS (MACHETE PRODUCCIONES), Marta LEWANDOWSKA (NO SUGAR FILMS), Marta HABIOR (NO SUGAR FILMS)
Tales of Mexico (La Habitación) is the Mexican-Polish co-production of an omnibus feature film structured with eight distinctive stories, all taking place in thesame single location, an apartment in a house built in the French-inspired splendor of the beginning of the 20th century in Mexico City. Eight dramatic episodesspanning some of the most decisive moments of the last century in Mexico, from the beginning of the Mexican Revolution to the persecution of Christiansand the xenophobic anti-Chinese immigration campaign, the massacre of the students days before the inauguration of the Olympic Games in 1968, thedevastation of Mexico City in the earthquake of 1985 and modern times marked by decadence, poverty, youth crime, corruption, drug-trafficking and finallya spirit of reconstruction and building of a new hope.for society in the new millennium.
Country(ies) : MEXICO, POLAND
Warsaw FF 2016Los Cabos IFF 2016Richmond IFF 2017 (Best Feature Film, Best Cinematography (Guillermo Granillo & Bogumil Godfrejow), Best Original Music (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek))