About This Film

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Festival Year: 2023
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Run Time: 93 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Countr(ies): Mexico
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Language: Spanish
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English Subtitles: Yes
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Captions: None

Film Overview

Original Title: Martínez
English Title: Martinez

Francisco Reyes (co-star of the Oscar®-winning “A Fantastic Woman”) leads Lorena Padilla’s directorial debut as an aging, Mexico-based Chilean man forced out of his accounting job. He then finds renewed hope in love, life, and his own purpose within the pages of a recently deceased neighbor’s diary. —M.G.Living for his monotonous day job as an accountant, Martinez has grown accustomed to shutting everyone out. So accustomed, in fact, he barely even notices his neighbor has been missing for nearly six months by the time she is found dead in the apartment next door. Content with his solitude and unwilling to retire, Martinez’s world is flipped upside down when he is forced by his company to train a newcomer to be his replacement. Simultaneously drawing inspiration from his deceased neighbor’s belongings and his vivacious prodigy, MARTINEZ may soon find himself with a new lease on life.  —G.S. 

Cast & Crew

Directed By

Lorena Padilla

Screenwriting

Lorena Padilla

Cinematographers

Gerardo Guerra

Editors

Liora Spilk Bialostozky

Principal Cast

Francisco Reyes, Humberto Busto, Martha Claudia Moreno