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Lost In The Night

Directed by Amat Escalante
2023
Mexico
140 minutes
Unclassified 18+
This twisty Mexican crime thriller follows a young man searching for his missing activist mother – and taking justice into his own hands. Direct from Cannes by multi-award winner Amat Escalante (The Untamed, SFF 2017).
Emiliano lives in a small Mexican town where the local mine has a dominant effect on the entire community. Years before, his mother, Professor Paloma disappeared after leading a protest against the exploitative mining company. With the case being ignored by the police, Emiliano determinedly seeks justice. A clue leads him to the wealthy Aldama family where he meets and begins to work for a famous artist, his celebrity actor/singer wife, and their social media-obsessed teenage daughter. As he conducts his secretive investigation, Emiliano gets embroiled in a wild conspiracy involving a vengeful religious cult, the contemporary art world, corrupt cops, violent narcos and a highly dysfunctional family. With his trademark panache, Escalante weaves a compelling and potent tale.
Lost in the Night functions as a study of absence — the absence of others, of talent, of answers, of peace, of love.
Rafaela Sales Ross, The Playlist
confident visual style and tasty psycho-Western soundtrack by Stranger Things composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein
Lee Marshall, Screen International

Tickets

Mon 12 Jun
9:15pm
State Theatre
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Past Event Cancel
Sat 17 Jun
7:30pm
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 5
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Past Event Cancel
Program Strand
Special Presentations
Year
2023
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Country
Mexico, Germany, Netherlands
Language
In Spanish with English subtitles
Director
Amat Escalante
Cast
Juan Daniel Garcia, Ester Exposito, Barbara Mori
Screenwriter
Amat Escalante
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Genre
Cinephile, Cannes Selected, Central & South America, Thriller
Company Credits
Sales Agent: The Match Factory
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