Country: Mexico
Year: 2026
Duration: 99'
Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.
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), Moscas (2026).
Declaration
film director
“In Moscas, this nine-year-old boy transforms Olga’s universe, a woman paralyzed by the fear of connection. On set, he transformed the entire crew, reminding us that making a movie should be a game – and for a child, playing is a deeply serious matter. Children don’t need poetic dialogue or images; they are poetic in their very existence.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Fernando Eimbcke. SCREENPLAY: Fernando Eimbcke, Vanesa Garnica. CINEMATOGRAPHY: María Secco. EDITING: Salvador Reyes Zúñiga, Fernando Eimbcke. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alfredo Wigueras. MUSIC: Camilo Lara. SOUND: Anuar Yahya Valdovinos, Javier Umpierrez. CAST: Teresita Sánchez, Bastian Escobar, Hugo Ramírez, Enrique Arreola. PRODUCTION: Eréndira Núñez Larios, Michel Franco, Fernando Eimbcke for Teorema, Kinotitlán. COPRODUCTION: K&S Films, Nephilim Producciones. CONTACT: Fandango - www.fandango.it
