Director Claudia Sainte-Luce and her lead actors have received one award after the other since The Amazing Catfish premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2013.
This debut film tells a heart-breaking story with a light touch about young introverted Claudia, who after a short stay in hospital is adopted very naturally into the unruly household of her hospital roommate Martha. What starts off as a playful, modest friendship within Martha's hippie family and among her fast-talking daughters quickly becomes a precarious pact in which Claudia doesn´t want to lose her adopted family, and Martha and her daughters equally can´t live without Claudia.
It is no coincidence that the main character has the same first name as the filmmaker; this nimble film is also a very personal one. Director Sainte-Luce (1982) packages her serious subject in a dynamic, feminine drama that once again shows you don't need blood ties to be family.
- Director
- Claudia Sainte-Luce
- Country of production
- Mexico
- Year
- 2013
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 89'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Los insólitos peces gato
- Language
- Spanish
- Producer
- Geminiano Pineda Moreno
- Production Company
- Cine Canibal
- Sales
- Pyramide International
- Screenplay
- Claudia Sainte-Luce
- Cinematography
- Agnès Godard
- Editor
- Santiago Ricci
- Production Design
- Barbara Enriquez
- Sound Design
- Frédéric Le Louet
- Music
- Madame Recamier
- Cast
- Ximena Ayala, Lisa Owen
- Local Distributor
- Imagine Filmdistributie Nederland
- Website
- https://imaginefilm.be/nl/films/vod/item/1142-the-amazing-catfish-1142