Winner of the World Fiction Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Best Film and Best Actor Awards at the Morelia Film Festival, the auspicious debut feature by Diego Ros is “a wonderfully atmospheric, slightly off-kilter piece through which evil gently and troublingly pulsates” (Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter).”
The film follows Salvador (Leonardo Alonso) works the night shift as a security guard in a construction site located on the outskirts of Mexico City. One evening, while the rest of the country celebrates a national holiday, Salvador repeatedly tries to leave the site in order to attend an important event, but a series of improbable situations turns the night into a bizarre and exhausting experience.
EL VIGILANTE / THE NIGHTGUARD
A film by Diego Ros
(Mexico, 2016, 75 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Watch if for free through May 4, courtesy of the Morelia Film Festival
