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Los bastardos by Amat Escalante, premieres in theaters

Los bastardos by
Amat Escalante, Best Feature Film at FICM 2009
09.11.09

Los bastardos by Amat Escalante, Best Feature Film at FICM 2008, premieres on Friday, July 31, in commercial theaters in Mexico City, Irapuato, Quéretaro and Acapulco.

Selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, the film has also won other awards, including Best Picture in the New Visions section at the Sitges festival, Best Latin American Film at the Festival de Mar de Plata, Best Director at the Bratislava International Film Festival and the Jury' s Special Award at Courmayeur Film Noir Italia.

 Escalante also received the FIPRESCI International Federation of Film Critics prize at Cannes for his first film Sangre, exhibited at FICM 2005.

Los bastardos is about a day in the lives of Jesús and Fausto, two Mexican undocumented workers living in Los Angeles. Tired of living day by day, they decide to do something they' ve never done before, a decision that dramatically changes their destiny.