Former Golden Lion winner Lorenzo Vigas (From Afar) returns to the Venice Film Festival with his second feature, La Caja, aka The Box.
Set in northern Mexico, it’s a grueling insight into the plight of casual workers as well as a mystery about a son and his possible father.
Teenager Hatzín (Hatzín Navarrete) arrives in an industrial town to collect the remains of his estranged father, whom he’s told has died in a mining accident.
But when he sees a man in the street who resembles his father, he’s convinced there’s been a mistake.Pursuing Mario (Hernán Mendoza) relentlessly, he refuses to believe that he’s not his father.
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