KIDNAPPED

KIDNAPPED

KIDNAPPED // Secuestrados

Spanish with English Subtitles 18+ SPAIN 2010 93 MINS Director: MIGUEL ANGEL VIVAS Cast: WITH MANUELA VELLES, DRITAN BIBA, ANA WAGENER Awards: Fantastic Film Fest of Austin - Winner Best Film, Best Director.

Over the past five years Europe has imported, from countries like Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico, a style of abduction known as an Express Kidnap. These abductions don't usually last more than one day and are characterized by violence. Each year in Europe there are 3,000,000 home raids, one every 10 seconds. In over thirty percent of cases, the family is at home when the raid occurs. The fusion of these two crimes has resulted in a new form of criminal assault in which the robbers not only ransack the houses they creak into but also kidnap the family for short periods of time. Family members are then often forced to hand over as much money as possible to the assailants. On very few occasions do such attacks end without serious injury. Kidnapped is the story of one of these attacks. Jaime, Marta and their daughter Isabel, a well-off family, move to a luxurious new house. The parents are going through a rough patch but have decided to give their relationship one last chance. On the first evening in their new home a group of three hooded men burst into the house. Their objective: to get as much money as possible out of them in one night.