PAST EVENTS : 2010

ALAMAR
DIRECTED BY PEDRO GONZÁLEZ-RUBIO
MEXICO • 2009 • 73 MINS. IN SPANISH & ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

A love story between father and son, man and nature, water and sky, Alamar is set in the turquoise waters of Banco Chinchorro in the Caribbean, home to thousands of species of fish and Mexico’s largest coral reef. Living somewhere on the cusp between fiction and documentary, the film tells the story of a young boy whose divorced parents (an Italian mother and Mexican father) make him a child of two worlds. The strikingly handsome Jorge, muscled, tattooed and mustachioed, transports the urban kid to this natural paradise to teach him to dive for lobster, and fish for barracuda, spending days on a tiny fishing boat and nights in a reed-roofed cabin that floats atop the water. Egrets and crocodiles are their neighbors in this aquatic Neverland.

ALAMAR will have a 1-week engagement, July 14-20, at Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St. (W. of 6th Av.) with screenings daily at 1:15, 3:00, 4:45, 6:30, 8:15 and 10.

http://www.filmforum.org/films/alamar.html

ALAMAR is the winner of numerous film festival awards, including the prestigious Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival’s New Directors Award, and the Audience and Competition awards at the Morelia International Film Festival (Mexico).

Written, Directed, Photographed and Edited by Pedro González-Rubio. Produced by Jaime Romandia and Pedro González-Rubio. Underwater camera: David Torres, Alexis Zabe. Music: Diego Bellinure, Uriel Esquenazi. Sound: Manuel Carranza, Emmanuel Romero, and Rodolfo Romero. Cast: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Néstor Marín “Matraca.” In Spanish and Italian with English subtitles. Mexico. A Film Movement release.

With the support of The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York

 

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