Familia Tortuga (Tortuga Family )

A remarkable directorial debut & one of the most pleasant surprises of contemporary Mexican cinema.
First-time Mexican writer/director Ruben Imaz Castro skillfully teases out the selfishness, vulnerability and ultimately quiet self-discovery, of the various members of a family on the eve of a special family day in this multi-award winning drama.

Uncle Manuel is determined to help his adolescent niece and nephew and support his brother-in-law, an unemployed union member. On the eve of the first anniversary of the death of their sister/mother/wife, the family home is now a place where the family, amid lost dreams, is in danger of disintegration.
....After the mother has died from a Mexican middle-class family, an uncle, a brother-in-law and two children have to find a new balance together. With his dynamically designed film debut, Castro allows the silences to reverberate. Ruben Imaz, gives a brilliant and sensitive impression of an unknown future when a loved one ഗോഎസ്...
Awards
Best Film, 3 Festival Int. de Cine, Santiago
Best 1st Work, Festival Int. de Cine Mexico 2007
Best Film, Toulouse Latin American Film Fest