Country: USA, Mexico, USA
Year: 2025
Duration: 84'
1979, New Mexico, USA. Olmo is stuck. Today is his turn to take care of his sick father even though he is only 14-years-old and would much rather be hanging out with his best friend, Miguel. But when he gets invited to a party by his beautiful neighbor, Nina, he will do whatever he can to get out of his duties, embarking on a journey of mischief and chaos. As the night unfolds, he may come to love the very place he's spent so long trying to escape: his home.
Biography
film director
Fernando Eimbcke
(Mexico City, Mexico, 1970) graduated in 1996 from the Film Studies Center of the Universidad nacional autónoma de Mexico. In 2003, he was a guest of the Berlinale Talent Campus, where he made the short The Look of Love, and in 2004 he wrote and directed his first feature film, Temporada de patos, selected for the Semaine de la critique in Cannes. In 2008, his movie Lake Tahoe won the FIPRESCI Award and the Alfred Bauer Award at the Berlinale and participated at the 21st Torino Film Festival. He next directed the short La Bienvenida (2010), an episode of the film anthology Revolución. With Club Sandwich (2013) he won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival and was awarded the Best Film Prize at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Disculpe las molestias (cm, 1993), Alcanzar una estrella (cm, 1993), ¿Perdón? (cm, 1994), No todo es permanente (cm, 1995), La suerte de la fea… a la bonita no le importa (cm, 2002), No sea malito (cm, 2003), The Look of Love (cm, 2003), Temporada de patos (2004), Adiós a las trampas (cm, 2005), Perro que ladra (cm, 2005), Lake Tahoe (Sul lago Tahoe, 2008), Revolución (ep. La Bienvenida, cm, 2010), Club Sandwich (2013), Olmo (2025).
Declaration
film director
“Olmo comes from a deeply personal place within me. Through the process of making this film, my hope is that we took the personal and made it universal. Olmo is a boy, who, like all teenagers, wants to escape his family to spend time with his friends. I, myself, found a friend when I was his age, and together she and I learned to handle our challenges through music, and through our shared sense of humor. Life distanced us for a long time, but the necessity of telling this story about families brought us back together. Olmo gave Vanesa and I an opportunity to write together. From the first line of the script we realized that the most honest and human way to talk about pain was through that humor. OLMO is a love letter to families (the ones we’re born to, the ones we choose), friendship, and the music that carries throughout our lives.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Fernando Eimbcke. SCREENPLAY: Vanesa Garnica, Fernando Eimbcke. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Carolina Costa. FILM EDITING: Mariana Rodríguez. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Lorus Allen. MUSIC: Giosuè Greco. SOUND DESIGN: Javier Umpierrez. CAST: Aivan Uttapa, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Diego Olmedo, Andrea Suárez Paz, Rosa Armendariz. PRODUCTION: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Eréndira Núñez Larios, Michel Franco for Plan B Entertainment, Teorema, Film Constellation.
CONTACT: The Festival Agency (Manon Arlot) ma@thefestivalagency.com
