’50 or Two Whales Meet on the Beach’ Tops Toulouse’s Films in Progress

MADRID — Having placed Hari Sama’s “This is Not Berlin” at 2019’s Sundance Festival, Mexico’s Catatonia Cine has scored at France’s Toulouse Latin America Film Festival, taking two of the big…

MADRID — Having placed Hari Sama’s “This is Not Berlin” at 2019’s Sundance Festival, Mexico’s Catatonia Cine has scored at France’s, taking two of the biggest prizes in this year’s online Films in Progress section.

The latest production from Catatonia Cine, ruToulousen by Sama, Veronica Valadez and Laura Berrón, “50,” the feature film debut of former commercials director Jorge Cuchi, turns, like “This is Not Berlin,” on the world of adolescence, here two 16-year-olds, Félix and Elisa. They meet playing the Blue Whale Game, fall in love and decide to take on together the game’s final challenge: Suicide.

“50” shared a second plaudit, the Films in Progress Toulouse Award, with Argentine Juan Pablo Félix’s “Karnawal,” another tale of adolescence, produced by Félix’s Bikini Films partner Edson Sidonie.

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