18 - 23 September 2007 Amsterdam
De Balie | Melkweg | Studio K | UvA
Familia Tortuga
Tortuga Family

Rubén Imaz
Mexico | 2006 | 129' | 35mm

Saturday 22 September
19.30 hrs, De Balie

After the mother has died from a Mexican middle-class family, an uncle, a brother-in-law and two children have to find a new balance together. With his dynamically designed film debut, Castro allows the silences to reverberate. Ruben Imaz, gives a brilliant and sensitive impression of an unknown future when a loved one goes.

Rubén Imaz Castro Mexico City, 1979. He entered Mexico's Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) to study as a director in 1999. In 2004, he was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus 2 with his 1-minute spot, Lola. Familia Tortuga is his degree project and opera prima, having obtained a honorary mention at Films in Progress 9 in Toulouse.
 
Theme Family
Familia Tortuga is part of the theme Family. This theme focuses on a visual dialogue where the imaginary gives rise to fantastic reinterpretation of the Mexican universe with the use of different film techniques.