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
http://www.morenafilms.com

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