Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2014


Caf (2014 film)

Buy Caf (2014 film) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Caf', also known as 'Coffee', is a Mexican documentary directed by Hatuey Viveros Lavielle which won the Sesterce dor for Best Documentary at the Visions du Rel Film Festival in Switzerland. The film is spoken in Nahuatl.

Plot



'Caf' follows an indigenous family from the mountainous region of Puebla in Mexico as they struggle to overcome the loss of Antonio, the father. Teresa, the mother, will try to help her children with their current challenges. Jorge seeks to become the first lawyer in the area and sixteen year old Rosario will have to make a decision concerning her unwanted pregnancy.

Prizes



'Caf' received the Sesterce d'or for Best Documentary at the 2014 Visions du Rel Film Festival in Switzerland. It also won Best Documentary at the Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema and the Reveu Sequence Prize at the Montreal First Peoples Festival. In 2015, it was screened at Docs Fortnight at the MoMA in New York.

About the movie



The father of director Hatuey Viveros Lavielle and Antonio, the deceased father of the family portrayed, were close friends. Viveros Lavielle has known the family for most of his life and that is how he managed to obtain such close intimacy with his subject during the filming process.

References




Buy Caf (2014 film) now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 2014



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1101173009.