David Pablos
Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the world of juvenile prostitution.
Two brothers, Samuel and Rodrigo, live with their mother in a suburban town. One day the mother, who has mental health problems, disappears leaving nothing behind but a note. David Pablos is a young Mexican filmmaker, born in 1982. His first short film, El mundo al atardecer, was made in 2007. La canción de los niños muertos (2008) was his second short film; he presented his first feature-length film Una frontera, todas las fronteras (2010) at the Berlinale Talent Campus before coming to Venice with his second film, La vida despues, for the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
Stories of encounters and separations in a dividing frontier wall that impedes families, friends and lovers to touch and kiss each other. In some cases, the wall does not obstruct human contact, while in some other cases it presents itself as a metaphor of division in human relationships.
Five children are isolated with their father on a lonely beach after the death of their mother. As the days go by, the children start torturing their father.
