ALAMAR, a feature from LFS graduate Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, is currently on release in the UK. More details at www.newwavefilms.com
Winner, Tiger Award, Rotterdam Film Festival 2010
Grand Jury Prize, Miami Film Festival 2010.
It's been getting fabulous reviews..
★★★★★
"I loved every frame of it."
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
★★★★
I doubt I'll see a more lovely film this year
Edward Lawrenson The Big Issue
“DO NOT MISS the Mexican film ALAMAR ...ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST’”
TIME OUT FILM
“A REVELATION”
SIGHT AND SOUND
Delightful...a poignant cinematic ode to father-son relationships, an elegy to the virtues of freedom in childhood, and a passionate defence of the integrity of nature's few remaining paradises.
Lee Marshal, Screen International
Familial stories tend toward the melodramatic and the gratuitously messy; this pastoral-poetic Mexican film proves that simpler is almost always better. A Mayan father takes his ten-year-old son on one last fishing trip before divorce and relocation separate them; what emerges is a quiet, gorgeously photographed portrait of a long goodbye. Do not miss it. Time Out New York
In Alamar, a luminous semi-documentary on the border of reality and fiction, a young boy goes on an enchanted expedition with his father to the Banco Chinchorri, the largest coral reef in Mexico.... The New York Times
★★★★ Relish the adventure...SUBLIME