La zona
The zone- Director
- Rodrigo Plà
- Country
- Spain, Mexico
- Year
- 2007
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Laura Santullo
- Cast
- Daniel Jiménez Cacho / Carlos Bardem / Daniel Tovar / Alan Chávez / Mario Zaragoza / Marina de Tavira / Maribel Verdú
- Production
- Morena Films
Storyline
Teenager Alejandro lives in The Zone, an enclosed, residential haven of wealth and privilege in the middle of Mexico DF, protected by private security guards, surrounded by shocking poverty. In the early hours of his birthday, three kids from the slums break into one of the Zone’s houses. In the bungled robbery that follows, an old woman is killed, but her housemaid escapes and warns security. The guards take swift, brutal action: two of the young intruders are shot dead. The third - Miguel - escapes and flees deeper into the Zone. A group of resident's meet at Alejandro's family home, and quickly decide not to report the event to the authorities, but to track the intruder down themselves and administer their own justice. The manhunt begins. The Zone's residents - adults and children alike - are caught up in a show burning frenzy of fear and simmering violence. Dissenters are treated at first with suspicion, then with naked hostility.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2008
Made in Spain
Venice Film Festival 2007
Venice Days
Leoncino d’Oro
Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2007
Call number 04/2007
Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2008
Call number 28/2007
Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2009
Call number 22/2008
Distribution territories:
Belgium / Switzerland / France / Greece / Hungary / Italy / Netherlands / Poland / Romania / Slovenia / Sweden / Czech Republic / Norway / Slovakia / Germany / Croatia
