Leading arthouse sales agency The Match Factory has acquired “The Box” (La Caja), the second feature of Mexican filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas, winner of Venice Film Festival’s Golden Li…
The film follows Hatzin, a teenager from Mexico City, who travels to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in a communal grave in the northern part of Mexico. But a casual encounter with a man who shares a physical resemblance with his father fills Hatzin with both doubts and hope about his parent’s true whereabouts.Vigas says that in the film he reflects on “the theme of identity from various points of view.” He adds: “Latin American history is very young.
Vigas was able to shoot in an actual “Maquiladora” – the low cost assembly plants of the Ciudad Juarez region. These plants’ international owners rarely share details about their production lines or their working conditions. “The Box” cast includes Hernán Mendoza and Hatzín Navarrete. It is written by Vigas and Paula Markovitch.
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