MAQUINARIA PANAMERICANA

PANAMERICAN MACHINERY

By Joaquin DEL PASO

THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2016

On a Friday morning, the employees at Panamerican Machinery Inc. are already winding down for the weekend, when an unexpected turn of events shakes their peaceful monotony.

Festivals
& Awards

Miami Film Festival 2016
Lexus Iberoamerican Feature Film Competition
Zurich FF 2016
New World View Section
Chicago IFF 2016
World Cinema Program
Seminici 2016
Thessaloniki IFF 2016
Torino FF 2016
Berlinale - EFM 2016
Forum
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama, Black comedy
    • Countries
    • MEXICO, POLAND
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Joaquin DEL PASO
    • Writer(s)
    • Joaquin DEL PASO, Lucy PAWLAK
    • Producer(s)
    • Joaquin DEL PASO (AMONDO FILMS), Susana BERNAL (BLACK MARÍA), Jaime ROMANDIA (MANTARRAYA PRODUCCIONES)
    • Synopsis
    • A run down construction-machine factory in Mexico City: Maquinaria Panamericana. The employees are happily winding down for the weekend, just like every Friday, except that this day a shocking event breaks their routine: their beloved boss, Don Alejandro, is found dead in the back of a warehouse.
      Soon this discovery leads to further ones: the company is bankrupt, the workforce have no prospects of employment elsewhere and no hope for any retirement funds. In a state of confusion, fear and grief they decide to hide his death and lock themselves in their dusty workplace to play out an improbable solution.