Directors: Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits
Country: Peru/Spain
Year: 2010
Length: 82 minutes
Genre: Drama
Screening Times: Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 8 PM | Buy Tickets
Co-presented by Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival
Synopsis
A wrenching portrait of the displacements wrought by poverty, Familia observes Daniel and Naty, a middle-aged couple living in Peru. Unable to pay for their eight-year-old son’s education, Naty takes a job as a hotel maid in Spain. Shuttling back and forth between continents and interpolating black-and-white photographs from the family album, Wiström and Herskovits movingly capture both Naty’s loneliness in a foreign land and the pain of a family torn apart while trying to provide a better life for their children.
Festivals & Awards
Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden 2010: DRAGON AWARD, BEST DOCUMENTARY
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic 2010: GRAND PRIX, BEST DOCUMENTARY
Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland 2010: OFFICIAL SELECTION
International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia 2010: GRAND PRIX, BEST DOCUMENTARY
Interviews & Reviews
Filmint — Silverdocs Film Festival: Reviews
Slant Magazine — True/False Film Festival: Dispatch Three
Variety — Film Reviews: Familia
Directors’ Bios
Mikael Wiström graduated from the Dramatiska Institutet in 1981 and since then he has been producing and directing documentaries. He collaborates with Sweden’s SVT and with foreign TV stations as well. He is the creator of the documentaries The Other Shore (1993) and Compadre (2004).
Alberto Herskovits was born in Argentina and grew up in Germany. He studied film at universities in Germany and the USA, and since 1990 has been working in Sweden as a documentary director and cameraman.
External Links
Official Website
Familia Film Trailer
Familia on IMDb