Venezuelan filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas’ third feature The Box debuted in competition at the 2021 Venice Film Festival and has been selected as Venezuela’s entry for the 2023 Oscars.
The film follows Hatzin, a young teenager who travels to collect his father’s remains from a communal grave in northern Mexico.
But after a casual encounter with a man who resembles his late father, he is sucked into the underbelly of Mexico’s manufacturing industry.
During Deadline’s Contenders Film: International panel, director Vigas said the film’s narrative inspiration came from a TV news report of a real-life family who traveled across Mexico to retrieve their dead relative. RELATED: The – Deadline’s Full Coverage “I had this idea of what if this boy goes to this town and suddenly sees a man that is exactly like his father.
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