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SOMOS LO QUE HAY / WE ARE WHAT WE ARE
México, 2010 / 35mm, Color / Ficción, 90 min 

Dirección/Director:Jorge Michel Grau
Producción/Producer: Nicolás Celis
Productor Ejecutivo/ Executive Producer: Henner Hofmann
Fotografía/Cinematography: Santiago Sánchez
Edición/Editing: Rodrigo Ríos
Diseño de Sonido/Sound Design: Federico Schmucler
Sonido directo / Sound recordist: Axel Muñoz 
Música/Music: Enrico Chapela
Dirección De Arte/Art Direction: Alejandro García
Compañías Productoras/Production Companies: Centro De Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) Fondo Para La Producción Cinematográfica De Calidad México (FOPROCINE)
Locación /Location: Ciudad De México/ México City
Reparto/Cast: Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato, Jorge Zarate. Actuaciones Especiales, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Carlos Colombo Y Esteban Soberanes.

Sinopsis / Synopsis

Un hombre muere en la calle, dejando a su viuda y a sus hijos desamparados. La devastada familia debe enfrentar no sólo su pérdida, sino un problema mayor: cómo sobrevivir. Porque son caníbales. Toda su vida se han alimentado de carne humana, en sangrientas ceremonias y las víctimas han sido siempre proveídas por el padre. Ahora que él ya no está, ¿quién cazará? ¿Quién los guiará? ¿Cómo saciarán su hambre? La tarea recae en el hijo mayor Alfredo, un joven inadaptado que no parece estar preparado para enfrentar el reto; pero sin carne humana la familia morirá.

Perturbadora, atemorizante e inquietante, SOMOS LO QUE HAY es una impresionante re-invención del género de horror; un retrato visceral y poderosamente crítico sobre una familia unida por un terrible secreto e impulsada por un apetito monstruoso.

A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a diet of human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies... and the victims have always been provided by the father. Now that he is gone, who will hunt? Who will lead them? How will they slake their horrific hunger? The task falls to the eldest son, Alfredo, a teenage misfit who seems far from ready to accept the challenge... But without human meat the family will die.

Shocking, bloody and deeply moving, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre - a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret hunger and driven by monstrous appetites.

Premios y Festivales / Festivals and Awards

• FILMS FROM THE SOUTH, OSLO OCT. 2011 
• SELECTION PANORAMA FESTIVAL PARIS CINEMA FRANCE 2011
• OFFICIAL SELECTION FANTASTIC ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL, CROATIA 2011
• OFFICIAL SELECTION, SLASH FILM FESTIVAL VIENNA AUSTRIA 2011.
• NOMINACIÓN AL ARIEL POR MEJORES EFECTOS VISUALES Y MÚSICA ORIGINAL
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 10TH TRANSILVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL RUMANIA 2011
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 12TH JEONJU INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL KOREA 2011
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 13TH WORLD CINEMA SHOWCASE, NEW ZELAND 2011.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 27^TH AMSTERDAM FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL, HOLLAND 2011.
• SELECTION FESTIVAL 13 RECONTRES DU CINEMA SUD-AMERICAIN, MARSEILLES FRANCE 2011
• OFFICIAL SELECTION, THE 13^TH SAN FRANCISCO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2011. USA
• SELECTION FESTIVAL 18^TH SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL 2011. USA
• SELECTION FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA D' AUTOR DE BARCELONA OFF CINEMART 2011. ESPAÑA
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 18TH GERARDMER INTERNATIONAL FANTASY FILM FESTIVAL, 2011, FRANCE.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 10th !F ISTANBUL AFM INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, 2011. TURKEY
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 42th QUINZAINE DES RÈALISATEURS, CANNES 2010. Competition Camera d'or
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 43th FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA FANTÀSTIC DE CATALUNYA SITGES 2010. Official Fantàstic Competition
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 41TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA, GOA 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 19th PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL, 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 33th STARZ DENVER FILM FESTIVAL, 2010.
• SPECIAL EXHIBITION DUNDEE CONTEMPORANY ARTS, SCOTLAND. 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 1th SEMANA INTERNACIONAL DE CINE FANTÁSTICO Y DE TERROR "FANTASMAGORIA" DE GRANADA, ESPAÑA. 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 1th HELLO DARKNESS HORROR FILM FESTIVAL, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 26th WARSAW FILM FETIVAL, 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION THE 20th BATH FILM FESTIVAL, UK 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 18th ST. GEORGE BANK BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION MAYHEM HORROR FILM FESTIVAL, ENGLAND. 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION ABERTOIR, THE NATIONAL HORROR FESTIVAL OF WALES, UK, 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 2th GRIMM UPNORTH, MANCHESTER HORROR AND SCI-FI FESTIVAL, ENGLAND. 2010.
• CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA 2010 JURE' S AWARD
• FANTASTIC FEST, AUSTIN TEXAS, 2010 BEST SREENPLAY ADM & DELL "NEXT WAVE SPOTLIGHT COMPETITION" AWARD
• FANTASTIC FEST, AUSTIN TEXAS, 2010 BEST MOVIE ADM & DELL "NEXT WAVE SPOTLIGHT COMPETITION" AWARD

WINNER BEST ACTOR.

• OFFICIAL SELECTION 46th CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. 2010 WINNER SILVER HUGO SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 30th HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 8th FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE MORELIA. 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION CELLULOID SCREAMS: SHEFFIELD HORROR FESTIVAL, UK, 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION THE 48th ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL, 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION FANTASTIC FEST 2010, AUSTIN, TX
• WINNER AMD & DELL “NEXT WAVE” SPOTLIGHT COMPETITION BEST FILM / BEST SCREENPLAY
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 30th CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL, ENGLAND.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 21ST STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, SUECIA.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION  23RD HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, FINLAND.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 16TH FORUM DES IMAGES L'ENTRANGE FESTIVAL, FRANCE.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 5th HOLA MÉXICO FILM FESTIVAL, AUSTRALIA.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION LATIN BEAT FILM FESTIVAL, JAPAN 2010
• OFFICIAL SELECTION FILM4 FRIGHTFEST 2010, THE UK'S LEADING FANTASY & HORROR FILM FESTIVAL. LONDON, ENGLAND.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 3rd FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE FANTÁSTICO Y DE TERROR MÓRBIDO 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 9th MACABRO FILM FESTIVAL 2010.
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 13th FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE GUANAJUATO EXPRESIÓN EN CORTO 2010.
  WINNER BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 14th FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, MONTREAL 2010
  WINNER SÉQUENCES PRIZE FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
• DISTRITAL, SEMANA DE CINE MEXICANO Y OTROS MUNDOS 2010
  Mexican Contemporary Cinema
• OFFICIAL SELECTION 25th GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. MEXICO 2010.
  Official Competition Mexican Fiction Feature Film