Soba is a 2004 independent drama

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

/crime

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 film and the directional debut from Mexican filmmaker Alan Coton, who also wrote the script. It stars newcomer Claudia Soberón

Claudia Soberón

Claudia Soberón in Mexico City, Mexico, is a singer and an actress.-Biography:Her first true passion was singing as she performed in several musical works, which culminated in the award-winning trio "Acuario". Soberón eventually discovered that acting was her true passion and she enrolled "El Foro...

 and Dagoberto Gama.

Synopsis

Justina, a fifteen years old girl, lives with her mother and stepfather in a suburb of Mexico City. On the verge of sexual awakening, she starts flirting with her stepfather, provoking the murder of both her parents. She runs away from home, lost in her mind, just dressed with a nightgown. Ivan, a police detective who practices torture as daily routine ans is now reduced to the rank of street cop, is ordered to look for her all night long. Justine gets picked up on the street by two cops who take her to their headquarters. They treat her like a slave and rape her several times. From that moment, the lives of both Justina and Ivan will change forever.

Cast

• Claudia Soberón
  Claudia Soberón
  Claudia Soberón in Mexico City, Mexico, is a singer and an actress.-Biography:Her first true passion was singing as she performed in several musical works, which culminated in the award-winning trio "Acuario". Soberón eventually discovered that acting was her true passion and she enrolled "El Foro...
  
   Justina
• Dagoberto Gama Ivan
• Antonio Algarra Captain
• Miguel Loaiza Ramon
• Hena Corzo Marife
• Jorge Zárate
  Jorge Zarate
  Jorge Alejandro Zárate Careaga is a Mexican football forward who plays for Puebla F.C. in the Primera Division de Mexico. He came up through the lower division under 17 and under 20 squads...
  
   Cop I
• Silverio Palacios Ojitos

Principal Reviews

"An astonishing self-produced Film Noir, based on an unforeseeable script" - Cahiers du cinéma

Cahiers du cinéma

Cahiers du Cinéma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. It developed from the earlier magazine Revue du Cinéma involving members of two Paris film clubs — Objectif 49 and...

"A believable realism [...] a remarkable Claudia Soberón" - Reforma

Reforma

Reforma is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City. It has 276,700 readers in Mexico City. The paper shares content with other papers in parent newsgroup Grupo Reforma. The cumulative readership of the newsgroup is above 400,000...

"The Best Mexican Film of the Year" - Stéphane Delorme (comité de sélection, Cannes)

"A Great movie" - El Financiero

"Disturbing" - Radio France Internationale

Festivals

• Sofia International Film Festival 2004
• Nantes 3 Continents Film Festival 2004
• Guadalajara Film Festival 2004
• Alucine Film Festival 2004
• Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2004
• Granada Film Festival 2005
• Santa Cruz International Latino and Indie Film Festival 2005
• Human Rights Film Festival 2005
• Eckerd College International Cinema Series, 2006
• Argenmex Film Festival 2006

External links

• http://www.lachancla.com (official web site)
• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Coton