10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
Marcelo TOBAR | Mexico | 2017 | color | DCP | 70′ | Spanish | e.s.
When Heriberto picks up his former classmates Trujilo and Flor en route to a school reunion, memories of the first few years at school gradually emerge. On the surface a brief road movie to a suburb of Mexico City, Polar Bear soon proves to be a painful journey into the past.
The reunion of long-separated individuals can lead to beautiful moments. However, reunions almost always go wrong in films. Mild-mannered Heriberto is looking forward to his school reunion even if the atmosphere turns awkward the instant he picks up slick Trujillo and a little later the beautiful Flor who – unfortunately – can’t stay off the bottle while they’re driving. The trio are en route to a suburb of Mexico City, but they are having trouble getting there because of Heriberto’s ramshackle car and his passengers’ unscheduled excursions. It gets truly painful when their mutual history gradually comes to the surface.
In the first Mexican film shot on an iPhone, director Marcelo Tobar alternates between past and present with flashbacks to Heriberto’s experiences at the seminary where, in recent years, he was studying to be a priest. There too, Heriberto proved unable to forget his traumatic schooldays.
Winner Best Mexican Feature Award at Morelia International Film Festival 2017. International premiere
Place: The Cinemas 5
Date: 12 April 2018
Time: 19:45
Duration: 1:03
Place: The Cinemas 5
Date: 13 April 2018
Time: 17:00
Duration: 1:03
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 14 April 2018
Time: 15:00
Duration: 1:03
Year in
Festival
2018
Director
Marcelo TOBAR
Camera
Mauricio Novelo
Cast
Humberto Busto
Verónica Toussaint
Cristian Magaloni
Harold Torres
Fernando Álvarez Rebeil
Luis Alberti
Marcelo Ceron
Country
Mexico
Editor
Patrick Danse
Language
Spanish
Length
70′
Music
Adán Herrera
Producer
Production Company
Zensky Cine
La Torre y el Mar
Production Design
Karen Torres
Sales
Luz verde / Lucero Garzón
Scenario
Marcelo Tobar
Sound Design
Emilio Cortés
Year of Production