Desierto (2015)

Directed by

Jonás Cuarón

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

Mexico, France

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 399 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of migrants trying to cross the US-Mexico border is hunted by a ruthless American vigilante. Gael Garcia Bernal plays one of the migrants who must survive the desert and evade the shooter.

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What happens

Desierto is a 2015 thriller film co-written and directed by Jonás Cuarón. It was produced by Cuarón together with his father Alfonso and his uncle Carlos, and distributed by STXfilms. The film stars Gael García Bernal (also executive producer) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for Special Presentations, and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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